It is well worth the efforts of a lifetime to have attained knowledge which justifies an attack on the root of all evil--viz. the ...deadly atheism which asserts that because forms of evil have always existed in society, therefore they must always exist; and that the attainment of a high ideal is a hopeless chimera.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Certainly the most obvious ... example of the strictly infantile essence of America's all-conquering mentality greets our eyes dai...ly, anywhere and everywhere, in the guise of the tabloid newspaper. The tabloid newspaper actually means to the typical American of the era what the Bible is popularly supposed to have meant to the typical Pilgrim Father: viz. a very present help in times of trouble, plus a means of keeping out of trouble via harmless, since vicarious, indulgence in the pomps and vanities of this wicked world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have heard arguments ... in favor of pardoning D. M. Bennett, convicted of sending obscene matter through the mails, viz., a pam...phlet [by Ezra Hervey Heywood] of a polemical character in favor of free love. While I am satisfied that Bennett ought not to have been convicted, I am not satisfied that I ought to undertake to correct the mistakes of the courts--constantly persisted in--by the exercise of the pardoning power.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Strikes and boycotting are akin to war, and can be justified only on grounds analogous to those which justify war, viz., intolerab...le injustice and oppression.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The True is the whole. But the whole is nothing other than the essence consummating itself through its development. Of the Absolut...e it must be said that it is essentially a result, that only in the end is it what it truly is; and that precisely in this consists its nature, viz. to be actual, subject, the spontaneous becoming of itself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Find myself £43 worse than I was the last month ... chiefly arisen from my layings-out in clothes for myself and wife; viz., fo...r her, about £12, and for myself, £55 or thereabouts.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The strategy of semantic ascent is that it carries the discussion into a domain where both parties are better agreed on the object...s (viz., words) and on the main terms connecting them. Words, or their inscriptions, unlike points, miles, classes and the rest, are tangible objects of the size so popular in the marketplace, where men of unlike conceptual schemes communicate at their best. The strategy is one of ascending to a common part of two fundamentally disparate conceptual schemes, the better to discuss the disparate foundations. No wonder it helps in philosophy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »