It's a good thing I'm a professional and could see the pure genius talent behind the raw sexual beauty.
Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest.
There is first the literature of knowledge, and secondly, the literature of power. The function of the first is--to teach; the function of the second is--to move, the first is a rudder, the second an oar or a sail. The first speaks to the mere discursive understanding; the second speaks ultimately, it may happen, to the higher understanding or reason, but always through affections of pleasure and sympathy.
Under our present enormous accumulation of books, I do affirm that a most miserable distraction of choice must be very generally incident to the times; that the symptoms of it are in fact very prevalent, and that one of the chief symptoms is an enormous 'gluttonism' for books.
No progressive knowledge will ever medicine that dread misgiving of a mysterious and pathless power given to words of a certain import.
The science of style as an organ of thought, of style in relation to the ideas and feelings, might be called the organology of style.
Out of the ruined lodge and forgotten mansion, bowers that are trodden under foot, and pleasure-houses that are dust, the poet calls up a palingenesis.
Materialism sets us free from sin-by proving that there is no such thing as sin. There's just antisocial behavior, which we can control with measures like laws and educational programs.
First we love within, then we love the world.
I couldn't speak well. I went to speech therapy for 10 years. And I was sort of frustrated in that sense.
It's like in politics: You can have great intentions for the world, but if you're not a good speaker and if you're not the sort of person that people can intimately link with, then it makes it very easy to say, "Well, they're not a nice person. "