Give me the keys. I feel for the common chord again, Sliding by semi-tones till I sink to a minor,--yes,... And I blunt it into a ninth, and I stand on alien ground, Surveying a while the heights I rolled from into the deep; Which, hark, I have dared and done, for my resting-place is found, The C Major of this life: so, now I will try to sleep.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All propaganda or popularization involves a putting of the complex into the simple, but such a move is instantly deconstructive. F...or if the complex can be put into the simple, then it cannot be as complex as it seemed in the first place; and if the simple can be an adequate medium of such complexity, then it cannot after all be as simple as all that.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No common-place is ever effectually got rid of, except by essentially emptying one's self of it into a book; for once trapped in a... book, then the book can be put into the fire, and all will be well. But they are not always put into the fire; and this accounts for the vast majority of miserable books over those of positive merit.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Science is unflinchingly deterministic, and it has begun to force its determinism into morals. On some shining tomorrow a psychoan...alyst may be put into the box to prove that perjury is simply a compulsion neurosis, like beating time with the foot at a concert or counting the lampposts along the highway.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I think of the nestling fallen into the deep grass, The turtle gasping in the dusty rubble of the highway,... The paralytic stunned in the tub, and the water rising,-- All things innocent, hapless, forsaken.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I hear the death of me, the murderous weeds, the stallion breathing sulphur, the hara-kiri rape,... the bludgeon, the bludgeon and the lowering below into the deep thorax, the big legs of the ground....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What gave peculiar sanctity to numbers? Why were a million people, who all resembled each other, any way more interesting than one... person? What aspiration could she help to put into the mind of this great million-armed monster that would make it worth her love or respect? Religion? A thousand powerful churches were doing their best, and she could see no chance for a new faith of which she was to be the inspired prophet. Ambition? High popular ideals? Passion for whatever is lofty and pure? The very words irritated her.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Muhammad brought down from heaven and put into the Koran not religious doctrines only, but political maxims, criminal and civil la...ws, and scientific theories. The Gospels, on the other hand, deal only with the general relations between man and God and between man and man. Beyond that, they teach nothing and do not oblige people to believe anything. That alone, among a thousand reasons, is enough to show that Islam will not be able to hold its power long in ages of enlightenment and democracy, while Christianity is destined to reign in such ages, as in all others.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »