Fear, as opposed to anxiety, has a definite object (as most authors agree), which can be faced, analyzed, attacked, endured. One c...an act upon it, and in acting upon it participate in it--even if in the form of struggle. In this way one can take it into one's self-affirmation. Courage can meet every object of fear, because it is an object and makes participation possible. Courage can take the fear produced by a definite object into itself, because this object, however frightful it may be, has a side with which it participates in us and we in it. One could say that as long as there is an object of fear, love in the sense of participation can conquer fear. But this is not so with anxiety, because anxiety has no object, or rather, in a paradoxical phrase, its object is the negation of every object. Therefore participation, struggle, and love with respect to it are impossible. He who is in anxiety is, insofar as it is mere anxiety, delivered to it without help.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ambitious men spend their youth in rendering themselves worthy of patronage; it is their great mistake. While the foolish creature...s are laying in stores of knowledge and energy, so that they shall not sink under the weight of responsible posts that recede from them, schemers come and go who are wealthy in words and destitute of ideas, astonish the ignorant, and creep into the confidence of those who have a little knowledge.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Placing too much importance on where a child goes rather than what he does there . . . doesn't take into account the child's needs... or individuality, and this is true in college selection as well as kindergarten.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Why do comparisons of words and tone poems (poetry and music) never take into consideration that the word is a mere signifier, but... that the sound, aside from being a signifier, is also an object?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Realism, whether it be socialist or not, falls short of reality. It shrinks it, attenuates it, falsifies it; it does not take into... account our basic truths and our fundamental obsessions: love, death, astonishment. It presents man in a reduced and estranged perspective. Truth is in our dreams, in the imagination.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We hate poetry that has a palpable design upon us--and if we do not agree, seems to put its hand in its breeches pocket. Poetry sh...ould be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but... with its subject.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sincerity is a certain openness of heart. It is to be found in very few, and what we commonly look upon to be so is only a cunning... sort of dissimulation, to insinuate ourselves into the confidence of others.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When we think offhand of a politician, we think of a man who works for a partial interest. At the worst it is his own pocket. At t...he best it may be his party, his class, or an institution with which he is identified. We never feel that he can or will take into account all the interests concerned, and because bias and partisanship are the qualities of his conduct, we feel, unless we are naively afflicted with the same bias, that he is not to be trusted too far. Now the word "statesman," when it is not mere pomposity, connotes a man whose mind is elevated sufficiently above the conflict of contending parties to enable him to adopt a course of action which takes into account a greater number of interests in the perspective of a longer period of time.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... the man in the violent situation reveals those qualities least dispensable in his personality, those qualities which are all h...e will have to take into eternity with him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »