If thinking is like perceiving, it must be either a process in which the soul is acted upon by what is capable of being thought, o...r a process different from but analogous to that. The thinking part of the soul must therefore be, while impassable, capable of receiving the form of an object; that is, must be potentially identical in character with its object without being the object. Mind must be related to what is thinkable, as sense is to what is sensible.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Generally, about all perception, we can say that a sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of thin...gs without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet ring without the iron or gold.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piec...e of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Let no one presume to give the feelings of a young woman on receiving the assurance of that affection of which she has scarcely al...lowed herself to entertain a hope.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... there were the hangers-on, students who became involved in the movement--any movement--because it was emotionally satisfying. ...At Chicago, there are few activities in which "everybody" participates, and the lack is especially felt by the younger undergraduates. A sit-in can fuse them into a hot, steamy mass of singing, changing, touching bodies. It encourages such communal acts as sharing a blanket and eating from the same jar of peanut butter. It is not surprising that they come out of it--a few days of it, anyway--feeling that they have had something akin to a religious experience.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offen...ce.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten. We can receive anything from love, for ...that is a way of receiving it from ourselves; but not from any one who assumes to bestow. We sometimes hate the meat which we eat, because there seems something of degrading dependence in living it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ultimately, it is the receiving of the child and hearing what he or she has to say that develops the child's mind and personhood....... Parents who enter into a dialogue with their children, who draw out and respect their opinions, are more likely to have children whose intellectual and ethical development proceeds rapidly and surely.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »