The fact is that love is of two kinds--one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to whi...ch the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He holds the wire from this box of nerves Praising the moral error... Of birth and death, the two sad knaves of thieves, And the hunger's emperor; He pulls the chain, the cistern moves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When I consider the Question, Whether there are such Persons in the World as those we call Witches? my Mind is divided between the... two opposite Opinions; or rather (to speak my Thoughts freely) I believe in general that there is, and has been such a thing as Witchcraft; but at the same time can give no Credit to any Particular Instance of it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have never been able to accept the two great laws of humanity--that you're always being suppressed if you're inspired and always... being pushed into the corner if you're exceptional. I won't be cornered and I won't stay suppressed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For twelve successive Congresses we have appeared before committees of the two Houses making this plea, that the underlying princi...ple of our Government, the right of consent, shall have practical application to the other half of people. Such a little simple thing we have been asking for a quarter of a century. For over forty years, longer than the children of Israel wandered through the wilderness, we have been begging and praying and pleading for this act of justice. We shall some day be heeded.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To summarize the contentions of this paper then. Firstly, the phrase 'the meaning of a word' is a spurious phrase. Secondly and co...nsequently, a re-examination is needed of phrases like the two which I discuss, 'being a part of the meaning of' and 'having the same meaning.' On these matters, dogmatists require prodding: although history indeed suggests that it may sometimes be better to let sleeping dogmatists lie.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Marriage is a fierce battle before which the two partners ask heaven for its blessing, because loving each other is the most audac...ious of enterprises; the battle is not slow to start, and victory, that is to say freedom, goes to the cleverest.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Coleridge observes that all men are born Aristotelians or Platonists. The latter feel that classes, orders, and genres are realiti...es; the former, that they are generalizations. For the latter, language is nothing but an approximative set of symbols; for the former, it is the map of the universe. The Platonist knows that the universe is somehow a cosmos, an order; that order, for the Aristotelian, can be an error or a fiction of our partial knowledge. Across the latitudes and the epochs, the two immortal antagonists change their name and language: one is Parmenides, Plato, Spinoza, Kant, Francis Bradley; the other, Heraclitus, Aristotle, Locke, Hume, William James.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »