In the case of our main stock of well-worn predicates, I submit that the judgment of projectibility has derived from the habitual ...projection, rather than the habitual projection from the judgment of projectibility. The reason why only the right predicates happen so luckily to have become well entrenched is just that the well entrenched predicates have thereby become the right ones.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The gaze implies a concentration of the spectator's activity into that of looking, the glance implies that no extraordinary effort... is being invested in the activity of looking. The very terms we habitually use to designate the person who watches TV or the cinema screen tend to indicate this difference. The cinema-looker is a spectator: caught by the projection yet separate from its illusion. The TV looker is a viewer, casting a lazy eye over proceedings, keeping an eye on events, or, as the slightly archaic designation had it, "looking in."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is only a projection of his own soul, which he admires....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The world proceeds from the same spirit as the body of man. It is a remoter and inferior incarnation of God, a projection of God i...n the unconscious.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nearly a million species of animals are already known. Of these, only a few thousand are endowed with anything which can be called... intelligence, only a few tens with high intelligence, and only one with conceptual thought. In the same way, there are hundreds of known religions; it had better be left to more orthodox writers than myself to enumerate those which can be called high religions. Animal evolution witnesses to a central upward trend of biological progress; it also shows us the retention of low types along with high, the throwing out of blind-alley side branches of specialisation at every level, and sometimes even degeneration. Religious evolution also shows a central progress--but equally the production of bizarre side-branches, the permanent confining of the religious spirit in low-level embodiments, its projection into every conceivable cul-de-sac, its too frequent bending over from upward to downward growth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the final analysis, a drawing simply is no longer a drawing, no matter how self-sufficient its execution may be. It is a symbol..., and the more profoundly the imaginary lines of projection meet higher dimensions, the better.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Cats are autocrats of naked self-interest. They are both amoral and immoral, consciously breaking rules. Their "evil" look at such... times is no human projection: the cat may be the only animal who savors the perverse or reflects upon it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Those who speak of our culture as dead or dying have a quarrel with life, and I think they cannot understand its terms, but must e...ndlessly repeat the projection of their own desires.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »