I ... really think I should consider my own throat and those of my children well cut if some night the people were to take it into... their head to clear off scores in that fashion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my lo...ve and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
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 »
When any two young people take it into their heads to marry, they are pretty sure by perseverance to carry their point, be they ev...er so poor, or ever so imprudent, or ever so little likely to be necessary to each other's comfort.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The male has been persuaded to assume a certain onerous and disagreeable rôle with the promise of rewards--material and psycholog...ical. Women may in the first place even have put it into his head. BE A MAN! may have been, metaphorically, what Eve uttered at the critical moment in the Garden of Eden.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The first man, who after enclosing a piece of ground, took it into his head to say, this is mine, and found people simple enough t...o believe him, was the real founder of civil society.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humaneness is nothing but a w...eakness born of fear and egoism; that this chimerical virtue, enslaving only weak men, is unknown to those whose character is formed by stoicism, courage, and philosophy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We cannot see anything until we are possessed with the idea of it, take it into our heads,--and then we can hardly see anything el...se.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No country is so peaceful as the one that leads into death. Life arches above one's head like a bridgespan, and below it flows the... water, carries the boat, takes it further.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Strong emotional experiences are for the most part impersonal. Anyone who has hated another person so much that only chance stands... between that person and death knows this, as does whoever has fallen into the catastrophe of a deep depression, anyone who has loved a woman to the dregs, anyone who has beaten others bloody or ever come up behind another person with muscles trembling. "Losing one's head," language calls it. Emotional experience is, in itself, poor in qualities; qualities are brought to it by the person who has the experience.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »