'What is truth?' said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Pilate was in advance of his time. For 'truth' itself is a...n abstract noun, a camel, that is, of a logical construction, which cannot get past the eye even of a grammarian. We approach it cap and categories in hand: we ask ourselves whether Truth is a substance ... or a quality ... or a relation.... But philosophers should take something more nearly their own size to strain at. What needs discussing rather is the use, or certain uses, of the word 'true.' In vino, possibly, 'veritas,' but in a sober symposium 'verum.'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Irish are often nervous about having the appropriate face for the occasion. They have to be happy at weddings, which is a stra...in, so they get depressed; they have to be sad at funerals, which is easy, so they get happy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We went on, feeding the hungry, giving drink to the thirsty, clothing the soldier, binding up his wounds, harboring the stranger, ...visiting the sick, ministering to the prisoner, and burying the dead, until that blessed day at Appomattox Court House relieved the strain.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The only trouble here is they won't let us study enough. They are so afraid we shall break down and you know the reputation of the... College is at stake, for the question is, can girls get a college degree without ruining their health?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature; and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, ...and, like the grave, cries, "Give, give!" The great fish swallow up the small; and he who is most strenuous for the rights of the people, when vested with power, is as eager after the prerogatives of government. You tell me of degrees of perfection to which human nature is capable of arriving, and I believe it, but at the same time lament that our admiration should arise from the scarcity of the instances.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precook...ed out of a can and swallow them down whole, absent-mindedly and with little relish.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am come, young ladies, in a very moralizing strain, to observe that our pleasures of this world are always to be for, and that w...e often purchase them at a great disadvantage, giving readi-monied actual happiness for a draft on the future, that may not be honoured.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Alas, alas for Hamelin! There came into many a burgher's pate... A text which says that Heaven's Gate Opes to the rich at as easy rate As the needle's eye takes a camel in!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »