Suppose someone has frequently flown in his dreams and finally becomes conscious of a power and an art of flying just as soon as h...e starts dreaming, as though it were his privilege, and also his most personal and enviable happiness: one who believes he can realize every sort of curve and angle with the lightest impulse, who knows the feeling of a certain divine frivolity, an "upwards" without tension or duress, a "downwards" without condescension and humiliation--without gravity! How could a man who enjoyed such dream-experiences and dream-habits fail to discover in the end that the word "happiness" was differently colored and defined in his waking hours as well? How could he fail to--desire happiness differently?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are ...at their best when seen from below.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Those words freedom and opportunity do not mean a license to climb upwards by pushing other people down. Any paternalistic system ...that tries to provide for security for everyone from above only calls for an impossible task and a regimentation utterly uncongenial to the spirit of our people.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Other sins only speak; murder shrieks out: The element of water moistens the earth,... But blood flies upwards, and bedews the heavens.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Throwing open the door, she brings forth the veritable queen of all the souffles, that spreads its archangelic wings over the enti...re kitchen as it leaps upwards from the dish in which the force of gravity alone confines it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upwards towards consciousness; the trees are i...mperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
So that this beautiful realm of hers was held in her mind extended, or lengthened: it had been finite, bounded, known utterly and ...in every detail, self-enclosed ... but now it lapped and rippled out and upwards beyond there into hinterlands that were like unknown possibilities in her own mind.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world ...to the other.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The white man regards the universe as a gigantic machine hurtling through time and space to its final destruction: individuals in ...it are but tiny organisms with private lives that lead to private deaths: personal power, success and fame are the absolute measures of values, the things to live for. This outlook on life divides the universe into a host of individual little entities which cannot help being in constant conflict thereby hastening the approach of the hour of their final destruction.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »