The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pu...lp, disgraced by Goebbels and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Every night as I gazed up at the window I said softly to myself the word paralysis. It had always sounded strangely in my ears, li...ke the word gnomon in the Euclid and the word simony in the Catechism. But now it sounded to me like the name of some maleficent and sinful being. It filled me with fear, and yet I longed to be nearer to it and to look upon its deadly work.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Girls who put out are tramps. Girls who don't are ladies. This is, however, a rather archaic usage of the word. Should one of you ...boys happen upon a girl who doesn't put out, do not jump to the conclusion that you have found a lady. What you have probably found is a lesbian.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Have you never heard of German Becoming, of German Wandering, of the endless migratings of the German soul? Even foreigners know o...ur word 'Wanderlust.' If you like, the German is the eternal student, the eternal searcher, among the peoples of the earth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Hearing your words, and not a word among them Tuned to my liking, on a salty day... When inland woods were pushed by winds, that flung them Hissing to leeward like a ton of spray,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It was modesty that invented the word "philosopher" in Greece and left the magnificent overweening presumption in calling oneself ...wise to the actors of the spirit--the modesty of such monsters of pride and sovereignty as Pythagoras, as Plato.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »