Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to ...wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches him this.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There can be no doubt that the difference between the mind of the lowest man and that of the highest animal is immense. An anthrop...omorphous ape, if he could take a dispassionate view of his own case, would admit that though he could form an artful plan to plunder a garden--though he could use stones for fighting or for breaking open nuts, yet that the thought of fashioning a stone into a tool was quite beyond his scope. Still less, as he would admit, could he follow out a train of metaphysical reasoning, or solve a mathematical problem, or reflect on God, or admire a grand natural scene. Some apes, however, would probably declare that they could and did admire the beauty of the coloured skin and fur of their partners in marriage. They would admit, that though they could make other apes understand by cries some of their perceptions and simpler wants, the notion of expressing definite ideas by definite sounds had never crossed their minds. They might insist that they were ready to aid their fellow-apes of the same troop in many ways, to risk their lives for them, and to take charge of their orphans; but they would be forced to acknowledge that disinterested love for all living creatures, the most noble attribute of man, was quite beyond their comprehension. Nevertheless, the difference in mind between man and the higher animals, great as it is, is one of degree and not of kind.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
An actor rides in a bus or railroad train; he sees a movement and applies it to a new role. A woman in agony of spirit might turn ...her head just so; a man in deep humiliation probably would wring his hands in such a way. From straws like these, drawn from completely different sources, the fabric of a character may be built. The whole garment in which the actor hides himself is made of small externals of observation fitted to his conception of a role.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mr. Chadband is a large yellow man, with a fat smile, and a general appearance of having a good deal of train oil in his system.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The jeweled stripes on the window ran straight down when the train stopped and got more and more oblique as it speeded up. The whe...els rumbled in her head, saying Man-hattan Tran-sfer Man-hattan Tran-sfer.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He only is a well-made man who has a good determination. And the end of culture is not to destroy this, God forbid! but to train a...way all impediment and mixture and leave nothing but pure power.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Every true man is a cause, a country, and an age; requires infinite spaces and numbers and time fully to accomplish his design;--a...nd posterity seem to follow his steps as a train of clients.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Man, she looked as though she'd been thrown off the crummiest freight train in the world. Yet, in spite of this, I got the impress...ion of beauty. Not the beauty of a movie actress, mind you, or the beauty you dream about when you're with your wife. But a natural beauty. A beauty that's almost homely because it's so real.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"You are Herr Karl Kraus, aren't you?" asked a young man who was sharing my compartment on a train and who had overestimated my de...fenselessness. "No," I said, which meant that I admitted it. Because if I had been someone else, I would have started a conversation with that idiot.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »