Someone in the crowd said to him, "Teacher, tell my brother to divide the family inheritance with me." But he said to him, "Friend..., who set me to be a judge or arbitrator over you?"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All my humor is based upon destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I'd be standin...g on the breadline right in back of J. Edgar Hoover.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nobody can desire what is ultimately damaging to him. If in individual cases it does appear to be so after all--and perhaps it alw...ays does so appear--this is explained by the fact that someone in the person demands something that is, admittedly, of use to someone, but which to a second someone, who is brought in half in order to judge the case, is gravely damaging. If the person had from the very beginning, and not only when it came to judging the case, taken his stand at the side of the second someone, the first someone would have faded out, and with him the desire.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Poems stirred into paper coffee-cups, eaten... with petals on rye in the sun--the cold shadows in back, and the traffic grinding the borders of spring ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Something hangs in back of me, I can't see it, can't move it.... I know it's black, a hump on my back. It's heavy. You can't see it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It seems to me obvious that infants and many animals that do not in any ordinary sense have a language or perform speech acts none...theless have Intentional states. Only someone in the grip of a philosophical theory would deny that small babies can literally be said to want milk and that dogs want to be let out or believe that their master is at the door.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »