If it were worth while to argue a paradox, one might maintain that nature regards the female as the essential, the male as the sup...erfluity of her world. Perhaps the best starting-point for study of the Virgin would be a practical acquaintance with bees, and especially with queen bees.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Education is the point at which we decide whether we love our children enough not to expel them from our world and leave them to t...heir own devices, not to strike from their hands their chance of undertaking something new--but to prepare them in advance for the task of renewing a common world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Forced labor as a punishment is limited as to time and intensity. The convict retains his rights over his body; he is not absolute...ly tortured and he is not absolutely dominated. Banishment banishes only from one part of the world to another part of the world, also inhabited by human beings; it does not exclude from the human world altogether. Throughout history slavery has been an institution within a social order; slaves were not, like concentration-camp inmates, withdrawn from the sight and hence the protection of their fellow-men; as instruments of labor they had a definite price and as property a definite value. The concentration-camp inmate has no price, because he can always be replaced; nobody knows to whom he belongs, because he is never seen. From the point of view of normal society he is absolutely superfluous.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For pain is perhaps but a violent pleasure? Who could determine the point where pleasure becomes pain, where pain is still a pleas...ure? Is not the utmost brightness of the ideal world soothing to us, while the lightest shadows of the physical world annoy?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The woman's world ... is shown as a series of limited spaces, with the woman struggling to get free of them. The struggle is what ...the film is about; what is struggled against is the limited space itself. Consequently, to make its point, the film has to deny itself and suggest it was the struggle that was wrong, not the space.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Kids are without a doubt the most suspicious diners in the world. They will eat mud (raw or baked) rocks, paste, crayons, ball-poi...nt pens, moving goldfish, cigarette butts, and cat food. Try to coax a little beef stew into their mouths and they look at you like a puppy when you stand over him with the Sunday paper rolled up.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You should go to picture-galleries and museums of sculpture to be acted upon, and not to express or try to form your own perfectly... futile opinion. It makes no difference to you or the world what you may think of any work of art. That is not the question; the point is how it affects you. The picture is the judge of your capacity, not you of its excellence; the world has long ago passed its judgment upon it, and now it is for the work to estimate you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has streched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence c...an find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This mesa plain had an appearance of great antiquity, and of incompleteness; as if, with all the materials for world-making assemb...led, the Creator had desisted, gone away and left everything on the point of being brought together, on the eve of being arranged into mountain, plain, plateau. The country was still waiting to be made into a landscape.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Film is more than the twentieth-century art. It's another part of the twentieth-century mind. It's the world seen from inside. We'...ve come to a certain point in the history of film. If a thing can be filmed, the film is implied in the thing itself. This is where we are. The twentieth century is on film.... You have to ask yourself if there's anything about us more important than the fact that we're constantly on film, constantly watching ourselves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »