For the first time, the stage-scenery of the senses collapsed; the human mind felt itself stripped naked, vibrating in a void of s...hapeless energies, with resistless mass, colliding, crushing, wasting and destroying what these same energies had created and labored from eternity to perfect.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Removed from its more restrictive sense, masturbation has become an expression for everything that has proved, for lack of human c...ontact, to be void of meaning. We have communication problems, suffer from egocentrism and narcissism, are frustrated by information glut and loss of environment; we stagnate despite the rising GNP.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The ambition which leads me on is an anxious desire and a fixed determination to return to the people unimpaired the sacred trust ...they have confided to my charge; to heal the wounds of the Constitution and preserve it from further violation; to persuade my countrymen, so far as I may, that it is not in a splendid government supported by powerful monopolies and aristocratical establishments that they will find happiness or their liberties protection, but in a plain system, void of pomp, protecting all and granting favors to none, dispensing its blessings, like the dews of Heaven, unseen and unfelt save in the freshness and beauty they contribute to produce. It is such a government that the genius of the people requires; such an [sic] one only under which our states may remain for ages to come united, prosperous, and free.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Let us then suppose the Mind to be, as we say, white Paper, void of all Characters, without any Ideas; How comes it to be furnishe...d...? To this I answer, in one word, From Experience: In that, all our Knowledge is founded; and from that it ultimately derives it self.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Happy the Man, who void of Cares and Strife, In Silken, or in Leathern Purse retains... A Splendid Shilling: He nor hears with Pain New Oysters cry'd, nor sighs for chearful Ale;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A mind that questions everything, unless strong enough to bear the weight of its ignorance, risks questioning itself and being eng...ulfed in doubt. If it cannot discover the claims to existence of the objects of its questioning--and it would be miraculous if it so soon succeeded in solving so many mysteries--it will deny them all reality, the mere formulation of the problem already implying an inclination to negative solutions. But in so doing it will become void of all positive content and, finding nothing which offers it resistance, will launch itself perforce into the emptiness of inner revery.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For undemocratic reasons and for motives not of State, They arrive at their conclusions--largely inarticulate.... Being void of self-expression they confide their views to none; But sometimes in a smoking room, one learns why things were done.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is one expanding horror in American life. It is that our long odyssey toward liberty, democracy and freedom-for-all may be a...chieved in such a way that utopia remains forever closed, and we live in freedom and hell, debased of style, not individual from one another, void of courage, our fear rationalized away.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »