For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize.... And a man who is puzzled and wonder...s thinks himself ignorant ...; therefore since they philosophized in order to escape from ignorance, evidently they were pursuing science in order to know, and not for any utilitarian end.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
After which you led me to water And bade me drink, which I did, owing to your kindness.... You would not let me out for two days and three nights, Bringing me books bound in wild thyme and scented wild grasses As if reading had any interest for me ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mrs. Hall, of Sherborne, was brought to bed yesterday of a dead child, some weeks before she was expected, owing to a... fright. I suppose that she happened unawares to look at her husband.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Upon the whole I am inclined to think that the far greater part, if not all of those difficulties, which have hitherto amused phil...osophers, and blocked up the way to knowledge, are entirely owing to our selves. That we have raised a dust, and then complain that we cannot see.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The good enough mother, owing to her deep empathy with her infant, reflects in her face his feelings; this is why he sees himself ...in her face as if in a mirror and finds himself as he sees himself in her. The not good enough mother fails to reflect the infant's feelings in her face because she is too preoccupied with her own concerns, such as her worries over whether she is doing right by her child, her anxiety that she might fail him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My profession lent itself nicely to my vocation for heights. It freed me of any bitterness towards my fellow men, who were always ...in my debt, without my owing them anything. It placed me above the judge whom, I in turn judged, above the defendant whom I forced into gratitude.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might... have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The pleasure of eloquence is in greatest part owing often to the stimulus of the occasion which produces it,--to the magic of symp...athy, which exalts the feeling of each by radiating on him the feeling of all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our books are false by being fragmentary: their sentences are bon mots, and not parts of natural discourse; childish expressions o...f surprise or pleasure in nature; or, worse, owing a brief notoriety to their petulance, or aversion from the order of nature,--being some curiosity or oddity, designedly not in harmony with nature, and purposely framed to excite surprise, as jugglers do by concealing their means.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Scepticism is an ability, or mental attitude, which opposes appearances to judgments in any way whatsoever, with the result that, ...owing to the equipollence of the objects and reasons thus opposed we are brought firstly to a state of mental suspense and next to a state of "unperturbedness" or quietude.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »