I look on it as no trifling effort of female strength to withstand the artful and ardent solicitations of a man that is thoroughly... master of our hearts. Should we in the conflict come off victorious, it hardly pays us for the pain we suffer from the experiment ... and I still persist in it that such a behaviour in any man I love would rob me of that most pleasing thought, namely, the obligation I have to him for not making such a trial.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The whole of modern thought is steeped in science; it has made its way into the works of all our best poets, and even the mere man... of letters, who affects to ignore and despise science, is unconsciously impregnated with her spirit, and indebted for his best products to her methods. I believe that the greatest intellectual revolution mankind has yet seen is now slowly taking place by her agency. She is teaching the world that the ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment, and not authority; she is teaching it to estimate the value of evidence; she is creating a firm and living faith in the existence of immutable moral and physical laws, perfect obedience to which is the highest possible aim of a intelligent being.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 »
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 »