It is the sorrow; shall it melt? Ah, water Would gush, flush, green these mountains and these valleys... And we rebuild our cities, not dream of islands.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For thou, O Spring! canst renovate All that high God did first create.... Be still his arm and architect, Rebuild the ruin, mend defect.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The general review of the past tends to satisfy me with my political life. No man, I suppose, ever came up to his ideal. The first... half [of] my political life was first to resist the increase of slavery and secondly to destroy it.... The second half of my political life has been to rebuild, and to get rid of the despotic and corrupting tendencies and the animosities of the war, and other legacies of slavery.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We must not leap to the fatalistic conclusion that we are stuck with the conceptual scheme that we grew up in. We can change it, b...it by bit, plank by plank, though meanwhile there is nothing to carry us along but the evolving conceptual scheme itself. The philosopher's task was well compared by Neurath to that of a mariner who must rebuild his ship on the open sea.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My position is a naturalistic one; I see philosophy not as an a priori propaedeutic or groundwork for science, but as continuous w...ith science. I see philosophy and science as in the same boat--a boat which, to revert to Neurath's figure as I so often do, we can rebuild only at sea while staying afloat in it. There is no external vantage point, no first philosophy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The house of my body has spoken often as you rebuild me like blocks,... and promise to come visit when I'm finally adjusted on safe land, and am livable, joist to joist with storm windows and screens ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Are we talking about a church founded by the Son of God made man? Or are we talking about simply a social gathering that we can re...build as we wish?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
These days of disinheritance, we feast On human heads. True, birds rebuild... Old nests and there is blue in the woods. The church bells clap one night in the week. But that's all done. It is what used to be....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of... freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »