I don't know Who--or what--put the question, I don't know when it was put. I don't even remember answering. But at some moment I d...id answer Yes to Someone--or Something--and from that hour I was certain that existence is meaningful and that, therefore, my life, in self-surrender, had a goal.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When someone kisses someone or flushes the toilet it is my other who sits in a ball and cries.... My other beats a tin drum in my heart. My other hangs up laundry as I try to sleep. My other cries and cries and cries when I put on a cocktail dress.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation. It is common sense to ta...ke a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. The millions who are in want will not stand idly by silently forever while the things to satisfy their needs are within easy reach.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I've heard the wolves scuffle, and said: So this Is man; so what better conclusion is there... The day will not follow night, and the heart Of man has a little dignity, but less patience Than a wolf's....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Although the same exemplary figures are found in both and equally miraculous events occur in both, there is a crucial difference i...n the way these are communicated. Put simply, the dominant feeling a myth conveys is: this is absolutely unique; it could not have happened to any other person, or in any other setting; such events are grandiose, awe-inspiring, and could not possibly happen to an ordinary mortal like you or me. The reason is not so much that what takes place is miraculous, but that it is described as such. By contrast, although the events which occur in fairy tales are often unusual and most improbable, they are always presented as ordinary, something that could happen to you or me or the person next door when out on a walk in the woods. Even the most remarkable encounters are related in casual, everyday ways in fairy tales.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is a wonderful, but neglected precision in these words. The old English noun "travel" (in the sense of a journey) was origin...ally the same word as "travail" (meaning "trouble," "work," or "torment").... Significantly, too, the word "tour" in "tourist" was derived by back-formation from the Latin "tornus," which in turn came from the Greek word for a tool describing a circle. The traveler, then was working at something; the tourist was a pleasure-seeker. The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For the salvation of his soul the Muslim digs a well. It would be a fine thing if each of us were to leave behind a school, or a w...ell, or something of the sort, so that life would not pass by and retreat into eternity without a trace.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is no hate without fear. Hate is crystallized fear, fear's dividend, fear objectivized. We hate what we fear and so where ha...te is, fear will be lurking. Thus we hate what threatens our person, our liberty, our privacy, our income, our popularity, our vanity and our dreams and our plans for ourselves. If we can isolate this element in what we hate we may be able to cease from hating. Analyse in this way the hatred of ideas or of the kind of people whom we have once loved and whose faces are preserved in Spirits of Anger. Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate; the child who fears noises becomes the man who hates them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is merely a linguistic peculiarity, not a logical fact, that we say "that is red" instead of "that reddens," either in the sens...e of growing, becoming, red, or in the sense of making something else red.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But Jesus, when you don't have any money, the problem is food. When you have money, it's sex. When you have both, it's health, you... worry about getting ruptured or something. If everything is simply jake then you're frightened of death.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »