But suppose, asks the student of the professor, we follow all your structural rules for writing, what about that "something else" ...that brings the book alive? What is the formula for that? The formula for that is not included in the curriculum.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Without being forgiven, released from the consequences of what we have done, our capacity to act would ... be confined to one sing...le deed from which we could never recover; we would remain the victims of its consequences forever, not unlike the sorcerer's apprentice who lacked the magic formula to break the spell.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
So, if we must give a general formula applicable to all kinds of soul, we must describe it as the first actuality [entelechy] of a... natural organized body.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The reader uses his eyes as well as or instead of his ears and is in every way encouraged to take a more abstract view of the lang...uage he sees. The written or printed sentence lends itself to structural analysis as the spoken does not because the reader's eye can play back and forth over the words, giving him time to divide the sentence into visually appreciated parts and to reflect on the grammatical function.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They had supposed their formula was fixed. They had obeyed instructions to devise... A type of cold, a type of hooded gaze. But when the Negroes came they were perplexed. These Negroes looked like men....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but nev...er treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We must believe that "emotion recollected in tranquillity" is an inexact formula. For it is neither emotion, nor recollection, nor... without distortion of meaning, tranquillity. It is a concentration, and a new thing resulting from the concentration of a very great number of experiences which to the practical and active person would not seem to be experiences at all; it is a concentration which does not happen consciously or of deliberation. These experiences are not "recollected" and they finally unite in an atmosphere which is "tranquil" only in that it is a passive attending upon the event.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is, in both cases, that a spiritual life has been imparted to nature; that the solid seeming block of matter has been pervaded ...and dissolved by a thought; that this feeble human being has penetrated the vast masses of nature with an informing soul, and recognised itself in their harmony, that is, seized their law. In physics, when this is attained, the memory disburthens itself of its cumbrous catalogues of particulars, and carries centuries of observation in a single formula.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »