The philosopher is like a man fasting in the midst of universal intoxication. He alone perceives the illusion of which all creatur...es are the willing playthings; he is less duped than his neighbor by his own nature. He judges more sanely, he sees things as they are. It is in this that his liberty consists--in the ability to see clearly and soberly, in the power of mental record.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In order to be able to write well upon a subject, one must have ceased to be interested in it; the thought which is to be soberly ...expressed must already be entirely past and no longer be one's actual concern.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He will not idly dance at his work who has wood to cut and cord before nightfall in the short days of winter; but every stroke wil...l be husbanded, and ring soberly through the wood; and so will the strokes of that scholar's pen, which at evening record the story of the day, ring soberly, yet cheerily, on the ear of the reader, long after the echoes of his axe have died away.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or "our" country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are f...ighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits which I have not shared and probably will not share.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »