Thus I believe that without doing violence to the ancient doctrine of the Chinese, one can say that the Li has been brought by the... perfection of its nature to choose, from several possibilities, the most appropriate; and that by this means it has produced the Ki (Ch'i) or matter with dispositions such that all the rest has come about by natural propensities, in the same way that Monsieur Descartes claims to bring forth the present order of the world as a consequence of a small number of initially generated assumptions. Thus the Chinese, far from being blameworthy, merit praise for their ideas of things being created by their natural propensity and by a pre-established harmony.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ah, how shall you know the dreary sorrow at the North Gate, With Li Po's name forgotten,... And we guardsmen fed to the tigers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... A La Recherche du Temps Perdu is like a beautiful hand with long fingers reaching out to pluck a perfect fruit, without error,... for the accurate eye knows well it is growing just there on the branch, while Ulysses is the fumbling of a horned hand in darkness after a doubted jewel.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What do a few lies on TV matter? They can be swallowed, digested and excreted, or follow people when they doze off to sink into ob...livion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
By the North Gate, the wind blows full of sand, Lonely from the beginning of time until now!... Trees fall, the grass goes yellow with autumn.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
While my hair was still cut straight across my forehead I played about the front gate, pulling flowers.... You came by on bamboo stilts, playing horse, You walked about my seat, playing with blue plums.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »