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 »
To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death freely chosen, death at the right time, brightly and cheerfull...y accomplished amid children and witnesses: then a real farewell is still possible, as the one who is taking leave is still there; also a real estimate of what one has wished, drawing the sum of one's life--all in opposition to the wretched and revolting comedy that Christianity has made of the hour of death.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the r...ights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and, roaming round its gilt cage, on...ly seeks to adorn its prison. Men have various employments and pursuits which engage their attention, and give a character to the opening mind; but women, confined to one, and having their thoughts constantly directed to the most insignificant part of themselves, seldom extend their views beyond the triumph of the hour.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is from quiet places like this all over the world that the forces accumulate which presently will overbear any attempt to accom...plish evil on a large scale. Like the rivulets gathering into the river, and the river into the seas, there come from communities like this streams that fertilize the consciences of men, and it is the conscience of the world that we are trying to place upon the throne which others would usurp.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is no luck in literary reputation. They who make up the final verdict upon every book are not the partial and noisy readers ...of the hour when it appears; but a court as of angels, a public not to be bribed, not to be entreated, and not to be overawed, decides upon every man's title to fame. Only those books come down which deserve to last.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They all came, some wore sentiments Emblazoned on T-shirts, proclaiming the lateness... Of the hour, and indeed the sun slanted its rays Through branches of Norfolk Island pine as though Politely clearing its throat....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Great genial power, one would almost say, consists in not being original at all; in being altogether receptive; in letting the wor...ld do all, and suffering the spirit of the hour to pass unobstructed through the mind.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As we walked along the Strand to-night, arm in arm, a woman of the town accosted us, in the usual enticing manner. "No, no, my gir...l, (said Johnson) it won't do."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »