When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already unde...rstand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The world is a puzzling place today. All these banks sending us credit cards, with our names on them. Well, we didn't order any cr...edit cards! We don't spend what we don't have. So we just cut them in half and throw them out, just as soon as we open them in the mail. Imagine a bank sending credit cards to two ladies over a hundred years old! What are those folks thinking?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Feminism, like Boston, is a state of mind. It is the state of mind of women who realize that their whole position in the social or...der is antiquated, as a woman cooking over an open fire with heavy iron pots would know that her entire housekeeping was out of date.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It breedeth no small offence and scandal to see and consider upon the one part the curiosity and cost bestowed by all sorts of men... upon their private houses; and on the other part the unclean and negligent order and spare keeping of the houses of prayer by permitting open decays and ruins of coverings of walls and windows, and by appointing unmeet and unseemly tables with foul cloths for the communion of the sacrament.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Thoroughly to unfold the labyrinths of the human mind is an arduous task.... In order to dive into those recesses and lay them ope...n to the reader in a striking and intelligible manner, 'tis necessary to assume a certain freedom in writing, not strictly perhaps within the limits prescribed by rules.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semihuman. The point of it is to open oneself to the pos...sibility of becoming partly a dog.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The essence of guerrilla warfare is to establish foci, or liberated areas, in the countryside and to set up small military units w...hich will gradually grow in strength, number and equipment--from squads to companies and regiments, eventually to divisions and armies, as in Yugoslavia and China during the Second World War--in order to fight battles against government troops. In the liberated areas, the guerrillas establish their own institutions, conduct propaganda and engage in other open political activities. None of this applies to terrorists, whose base of operations is in the cities, and who have to operate clandestinely in small units. Any major concentration would immediately expose them to retaliation by the government. The terrorists may be part of a political movement that engages in propaganda and other political activities (such as the IRA and the Basque ETA), but there is a strict division of labor between the legal and the military arms of the movement.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is not merely for today, but for all time to come that we should perpetuate for our children's children this great and free gov...ernment, which we have enjoyed all our lives.... I happen temporarily to occupy this big White House. I am a living witness that any one of your children may look to come here as my father's child has. It is in order that each of you may have through this free government which we have enjoyed, an open field and a fair chance for your industry, enterprise and intelligence; that you may all have equal privileges in the race of life, with all its desirable human aspirations.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You must be wise, in order to sniff out and weigh these mighty books, and swift in the hunt and brave in the battle; then, by care...ful reading and frequent reflection, crack open the bone and suck out the substantific marrow.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »