The power of a text is different when it is read from when it is copied out.... Only the copied text thus commands the soul of him... who is occupied with it, whereas the mere reader never discovers the new aspects of his inner self that are opened by the text, that road cut through the interior jungle forever closing behind it: because the reader follows the movement of his mind in the free flight of day-dreaming, whereas the copier submits it to command.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest.... It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas ...destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The ingenuity of man has always been dedicated to the solution of one problem,--how to detach the sensual sweet, the sensual stron...g, the sensual bright, &c., from the moral sweet, the moral deep, the moral fair; that is, again, to contrive to cut clean off this upper surface so thin as to leave it bottomless; to get a one end, without an other end. The soul says, Eat: the body would feast. The soul says, The man and the woman shall be one flesh and one soul; the body would join the flesh only. The soul says, Have dominion over all things to the ends of virtue; the body would have the power over things to its own ends.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This gift of mimicry in the actor is like a gift for likeness in a painter. Such a knack will not make his drawing fine, but it wi...ll give him a kind of solid reality which he can begin with and which he can alter and force to his own ends. The painter, for example, takes the landscape as the material for the expression of his idea; it is plain that he can express his idea more adequately if he knows the exact appearance that he works from, and that we, on the other hand, by knowing just what he has done to this material know better what he has expressed. In order to translate a gesture into elegance or extravagance or drunkenness an actor may best begin by being able to reproduce the actual literal gesture that he sees in life. To that literal and basic gesture the shortest cut lies in the power of mimicry. All of which amounts to saying that it is from this actual, literal gesture and the knowledge of what it would be in any given case that all style evolves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Children in home-school conflict situations often receive a double message from their parents: "The school is the hope for your fu...ture, listen, be good and learn" and "the school is your enemy. . . ." Children who receive the "school is the enemy" message often go after the enemy--act up, undermine the teacher, undermine the school program, or otherwise exercise their veto power.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »