When the soul drifts uncertainly between life and the dream, between the mind's disorder and the return to cool reflection, it is ...in religious thought that we should seek consolation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount... of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself; because only through ordering what you know by comparing every truth with every other truth can you take complete possession of your knowledge and get it into your power. You can think about only what you know, so you ought to learn something; on the other hand, you can know only what you have thought about.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is commonplace that a problem stated is well on its way to solution, for statement of the nature of a problem signifies that th...e underlying quality is being transformed into determinate distinctions of terms and relations or has become an object of articulate thought.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Language fails not because thought fails, but because no verbal symbols can do justice to the fullness and richness of thought. If... we are to continue talking about "data" in any other sense than as reflective distinctions, the original datum is always such a qualitative whole.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The only thing that is unqualifiedly given is the total pervasive quality; and the objection to calling it "given" is that the wor...d suggests something to which it is given, mind or thought or consciousness or whatever, as well possibly as something that gives.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A man is reputed to have thought and eloquence; he cannot, for all that, say a word to his cousin or his uncle. They accuse his si...lence with as much reason as they would blame the insignificance of a dial in the shade. In the sun it will mark the hour. Among those who enjoy his thought, he will regain his tongue.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A sweet disorder in the dress Kindles in clothes a wantonness:... A lawn about the shoulders thrown Into a fine distraction: An erring lace, which here and there Enthralls the crimson stomacher: A cuff neglectful, and thereby Ribbands to flow confusedly: A winning wave (deserving note) In the tempestuous petticoat: A careless shoestring, in whose tie I see a wild civility: Do more bewitch me than when art Is too precise in every part.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The slogan offers a counterweight to the general dispersion of thought by holding it fast to a single, utterly succinct and unforg...ettable expression, one which usually inspires men to immediate action. It abolishes reflection: the slogan does not argue, it asserts and commands.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »