There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the Critique of Pure Reason, the Origin ...of Species, and Karl Marx's Capital.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
From the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production ...of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The distinction between the two types of art is a difference of density rather than of species. In the same number of bars of Beet...hoven and Sousa, there is, in Beethoven, more of the essence of music, giving a thicker, more intense effect likely to alienate the unfamiliar listener by "boring" him, just as the palate accustomed to that richer food is bored by the thinness of the popular tune. The feeling that this is not the only difference is due to the fact that as an art grows more and more complex and dense, the number of relations among simple elements increases until those relations look like extraordinarily refined experiences denied to the common herd. Yet there is no real barrier to be leaped over by an effort of genius between understanding a "vulgar" dance tune and a Beethoven symphony.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to lo...ok for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Someone had literally run to earth In an old cellar hole in a byroad... The origin of all the family there. Thence they were sprung, so numerous a tribe That now not all the houses left in town Made shift to shelter them without the help Of here and there a tent in grove and orchard.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The sceptics assert, though absurdly, that the origin of all religious worship was derived from the utility of inanimate objects, ...as the sun and moon, to the support and well-being of mankind.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Where is the source of all money-sickness, and the origin of all sex-perversion?.... It lies in the heart of man, and not in the c...onditions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »