In the history of human inquiry, philosophy has the place of the initial central sun, seminal and tumultuous; from time to time it... throws of some portion of itself to take station as a science, a planet, cool and well regulated, progressing steadily towards a distant final state.... Is it not possible that the next century may see the birth, through the joint efforts of philosophers, grammarians, and numerous other students of language, of a true and comprehensive science of language? Then we shall have rid ourselves of one more part of philosophy (there will still be plenty left) in the only way we ever can get rid of philosophy, by kicking it upstairs.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Mankind is getting smarter every day." Actually, it only seems so. "At least we are making progress." We're progressing, to be su...re, ever more deeply into the forest.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... writing is the action of thinking, just as drawing is the action of seeing and composing music is the action of hearing. And a...ll that is inward must be expressed in action, for that is the true life of the spirit and the only way we can be continually discarding our dead and mistaken (sinful) selves and progressing and knowing more.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have been photographing our toilet, that glossy enameled receptacle of extraordinary beauty.... Here was every sensuous curve of... the "human figure divine" but minus the imperfections. Never did the Greeks reach a more significant consummation to their culture, and it somehow reminded me, in the glory of its chaste convulsions and in its swelling, sweeping, forward movement of finely progressing contours, of the Victory of Samothrace.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »