Essay in This I Believe : 2 (1952) edited by Edward R. Murrow, p. 142
Context: What do I believe? As an American I believe in generosity, in liberty, in the rights of man. These are social and political faiths that are part of me, as they are, I suppose, part of all of us. Such beliefs are easy to express. But part of me too is my relation to all life, my religion. And this is not so easy to talk about. Religious experience is highly intimate and, for me, ready words are not at hand. I am profoundly aware of the magnitude of the universe, that all is ruled by law, including my finite person. I believe in the infinite wisdom that envelops and embraces me and from which I take direction, purpose, strength.
Essay in This I Believe : 2 (1952) edited by Edward R. Murrow, p. 142
Secretary Pompeo Q&A Discussion at Texas A&M University, Youtube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=x6wbfjspVww (21 April 2019)
2019
“Every mode of technology is a reflex of our most intimate psychological experience.”
Source: 1990s and beyond, The Book of Probes : Marshall McLuhan (2011), p. 171
“That irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand.”
Book I, Ch. 3
Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927)
Sämtliche Werken, ed. Josef Nadler (1949-1957), vol. III, p. 32.
“My life was as crammed with strenuous work and highly interesting experiences alike.”
The Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman (1926)
Part II. Of the Extent of Sensible Knowledge.
The Physiology of the Senses: Or, How and what We See, Hear, Taste, Feel and Smell (1856)
Aequanimitas (1889)
Context: In a true and perfect form, imperturbability is indissolubly associated with wide experience and an intimate knowledge of the varied aspects of disease. With such advantages he is so equipped that no eventuality can disturb the mental equilibrium of the physician; the possibilities are always manifest, and the course of action clear. From its very nature this precious quality is liable to be misinterpreted, and the general accusation of hardness, so often brought against the profession, has here its foundation. Now a certain measure of insensibility is not only an advantage, but a positive necessity in the exercise of a calm judgment, and in carrying out delicate operations. Keen sensibility is doubtless a virtue of high order, when it does not interfere with steadiness of hand or coolness of nerve; but for the practitioner in his working-day world, a callousness which thinks only of the good to be effected, and goes ahead regardless of smaller considerations, is the preferable quality.
Cultivate, then, gentlemen, such a judicious measure of obtuseness as will enable you to meet the exigencies of practice with firmness and courage, without, at the same time, hardening "the human heart by which we live."
