It was occasions like this that made me more resolved than ever that my family would someday know real security. I never for a mom...ent doubted that I myself would ultimately provide it for them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The twenties are tryout years and what motivates young people are two contradictory impulses. The urge to create a structure that ...will serve their needs into the (barely) foreseeable future and the fear of being locked into a life pattern that will ultimately prove unsatisfying or limited.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It goes without saying that religion thus conceived is the opposite of magic. The latter is essentially selfish, the former admits... of and often even demands disinterestedness. The one claims to force the compliance of nature, the other implores the favor of a god. Above all, magic works in an environment which is semi-physical and semi-moral--the magician, at all events is not dealing with a person; whereas on the contrary it is from the god's personality that religion draws its greatest efficacy. Granted that primitive intelligence thinks it perceives around it, in phenomena and in events, elements of personality rather than complete personalities, religion, as we have just understood it, will ultimately reinforce these elements to the extent of completely personifying them; whereas magic looks upon them as debased, dissolved, as it were, in a material world in which their efficacy can be tapped.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have every characteristic of a night person--a distaste for bosses, a hatred of the expected, an obsession with gaining an ultim...ately nonexistent freedom--every quality except one. I can't stay awake after a while. I fall asleep.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nobody is saying that these people do not ultimately cease to be. And Sometimes their passings are even more painful than our...s. It is just that so often they live till their hair is white. They make excellent corpses, among the expensive flowers. . . .LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As sure as time is--these mists will clear away. And the world--our world, will surely and unerringly see us as we are. Our only c...are need be the intrinsic worth of our contributions. If we represent the ignorance and poverty, the vice and destructiveness, the vagabondism and parasitism in the world's economy, no amount of philanthropy and benevolent sentiment can win for us esteem: and if we contribute a positive value in those things the world prizes, no amount of negrophobia can ultimately prevent its recognition. And our great "problem" after all is to be solved not by brooding over it, and orating about it, but by living into it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »