...though one can be callous in Ireland one cannot be wholly opaque or material. An unearthly disturbance works in the spirit; rea...son can never reconcile one to life; nothing allays the wants one cannot explain.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is exasperating to see little brown men and little yellow men from the mysterious Orient, and the opaque black men of Africa (t...o say nothing of those impudent American Negroes!) who come to the U.N. and talk smart to us, who are scurrying all over our globe in their strange modes of dress--much as if they were new, unpleasant arrivals from another planet. Many whites believe in their ulcers that it is only a matter of time before the Marines get the signal to round up these truants and put them back securely in their cages.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... people were so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fools' caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while ever...ybody else's were transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone were rosy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
With what joy I begin to read a poem, which I confide in as an inspiration! And now my chains are to be broken; I shall mount abov...e these clouds and opaque airs in which I live,--opaque, though they seem transparent,--and from the heaven of truth I shall see and comprehend my relations. That will reconcile me to life, and renovate nature, to see trifles animated by tendency, and to know what I am doing. Life will no more be a noise; now I shall see men and women, and know the signs by which they may be discerned from fools and satans. This day shall be better than my birth-days: then I became an animal: now I am invited into the science of the real.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... in doing our psychology, we want to attribute mental states fully opaquely because it's the fully opaque reading which tells u...s what the agent has in mind, and it's what the agent has in mind that causes his behavior.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The bottom of being is left logically opaque to us, as something which we simply come upon and find, and about which (if we wish t...o act) we should pause and wonder as little as possible.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Avrum was there in the audience, I believe, in Berkeley on the afternoon in 1941 when, in conformity with the law subsequently enu...nciated by Murphy, what could go wrong, epistemologically, did. G.E. Moore was delivering the Howison Lecture in Wheeler Auditorium, which had a handsome coffered ceiling inset with glass panels. Giving a local angle to his defence of common sense, Moore declared that among the things he knew there and then was that light from the sun was streaming through the roof. Most in the audience were aware, however, that the glass panels were diffusers for electrical illumination; the roof of the building was solid and opaque. Someone had the temerity to point this out to Moore in the question period. He responded, "Oh dear me!" and went on to the next question.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is a thorny undertaking, and more so than it seems, to follow a movement so wandering as that of our mind, to penetrate the opa...que depths of its innermost folds, to pick out and immobilize the innumerable flutterings that agitate it. And it is a new and extraordinary amusement, which withdraws us from the ordinary occupations of the world, yes, even from those most recommended.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I had kept opaque Down deeper than the canyons undersea... The sullen spectrum of a buried lake Nobody saw; not seen even by me....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »