Are not the days of my life few? Let me alone, that I may find a little comfort before I go, never to return, to the land of gloom... and deep darkness, the land of gloom and chaos, where light is like darkness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
From cradle to grave this problem of running order through chaos, direction through space, discipline through freedom, unity throu...gh multiplicity, has always been, and must always be, the task of education, as it is the moral of religion, philosophy, science, art, politics and economy; but a boy's will is his life, and he dies when it is broken, as the colt dies in harness, taking a new nature in becoming tame.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collaps...e with dizzying speed. The order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish. Everything would break up in chaos. There would be no seasons, no civilization, no thought, no humanity; even life would give way, and the impotent void would reign everywhere.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Afterwards, when the bombshell of early motherhood first hit, I remember wondering how any woman could possibly entertain erotic t...houghts while sleepwaking through the chaos of feeds, nappies stress and fatigue. I assume my husband and I must have had sex at least a few times in that two year period ... but I must say I can't remember it happening. Perhaps I dozed through it, who knows.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But how is one to make a scientist understand that there is something unalterably deranged about differential calculus, quantum th...eory, or the obscene and so inanely liturgical ordeals of the precession of the equinoxes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[T]he syndrome known as life is too diffuse to admit of palliation. For every symptom that is eased, another is made worse. The ho...rse leech's daughter is a closed system. Her quantum of wantum cannot vary.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »