The charming landscape which I saw this morning is indubitably made up of some twenty or thirty farms. Miller owns this field, Loc...ke that, and Manning the woodland beyond. But none of them owns the landscape. There is property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all parts, that is, the poet. This is the best part of these men's farms, yet to this their warranty-deeds give no title.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A part, a large part, of travelling is an engagement of the ego v. the world.... The world is hydra headed, as old as the rocks an...d as changing as the sea, enmeshed inextricably in its ways. The ego wants to arrive at places safely and on time.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
With all of its bad influences, T.V. is not to be feared.... It can be a fairly safe laboratory for confronting, seeing through, a...nd thus being immunized against unhealthy values so as to be "in the world but not of it."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Coleridge observes that all men are born Aristotelians or Platonists. The latter feel that classes, orders, and genres are realiti...es; the former, that they are generalizations. For the latter, language is nothing but an approximative set of symbols; for the former, it is the map of the universe. The Platonist knows that the universe is somehow a cosmos, an order; that order, for the Aristotelian, can be an error or a fiction of our partial knowledge. Across the latitudes and the epochs, the two immortal antagonists change their name and language: one is Parmenides, Plato, Spinoza, Kant, Francis Bradley; the other, Heraclitus, Aristotle, Locke, Hume, William James.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Pythagoras, Locke, Socrates--but pages Might be filled up, as vainly as before,... With the sad usage of all sorts of sages, Who in his life-time, each was deemed a bore! The loftiest minds outrun their tardy ages.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is not the intelligent woman v. the ignorant woman; nor the white woman v. the black, the brown, and the red,--it is not even t...he cause of woman v. man. Nay, 'tis woman's strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have give...n, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries, when they wrote these books. Hence, instead of Man Thinking, we have the book-worm.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I hear you were seen running through Portugal in used B.V.D.'s, chewing ground glass and collecting material for a story about bou...le players; that you were publicity man for Lindbergh; that you have finished a novel a hundred thousand words long consisting entirely of the word "balls" used in new groupings; that you have been naturalized a Spaniard, dress always in a wine-skin with "zipper" vent and are engaged in bootlegging Spanish Fly between St. Sebastian and Biarritz where your agents sprinkle it on the floor of the Casino. I hope I have been misinformed but, alas!, it all has too true a ring.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Your discovery of the contradiction caused me the greatest surprise and, I would almost say, consternation, since it has shaken th...e basis on which I intended to build my arithmetic.... It is all the more serious since, with the loss of my rule V, not only the foundations of my arithmetic, but also the sole possible foundations of arithmetic seem to vanish.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »