Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not becom...e picturesque through aerial distance! What hymning of cancerous vices may we not languish over as sublimest art in the safe remoteness of a strange language and artificial phrase! Yet we keep a repugnance to rheumatism and other painful effects when presented in our personal experience.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We live in an age of reproduction. Most of what makes up our personal picture of the world we have never seen with our own eyes--o...r rather we have seen it with our own eyes, but not on the spot: our knowledge comes to us from a distance, we are tele- viewers, tele-hearers, tele-knowers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The differences between the President and the Prime Minister were at least in one respect something more than the obvious differen...ces of national character, education, and even temperament. For all his sense of history, his large, untroubled, easy-going style of life, his unshakable feeling of personal security, his natural assumption of being at home in the great world far beyond the confines of his own country, Roosevelt was a typical child of the twentieth century and of the New World; while Churchill for all his love of the present hour, his unquenchable appetite for new knowledge, his sense of the technological possibilities of our time, and the restless roaming of his fancy in considering how they might be most imaginatively applied, despite his enthusiasm for Basic English, or the siren suit which so upset his hosts in Moscow--despite all this, Churchill remains a European of the nineteenth century.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions .... You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you're not go...ing to change each other's minds. It's a waste of your time and my time.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This is one of the most serious intrusions into personal life that I can think of, and it's as bad as anything I've ever experienc...ed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is cowardly to fly from natural duties and take up those that suit our taste or temperament better; but it is also unwise to ta...ke an exaggerated view of personal duties, which shuts out the proper care of the mind and body entrusted to us.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The white man regards the universe as a gigantic machine hurtling through time and space to its final destruction: individuals in ...it are but tiny organisms with private lives that lead to private deaths: personal power, success and fame are the absolute measures of values, the things to live for. This outlook on life divides the universe into a host of individual little entities which cannot help being in constant conflict thereby hastening the approach of the hour of their final destruction.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »