
Great Books: The Foundation of a Liberal Education (1954)
Source: Pride and Prejudice
Great Books: The Foundation of a Liberal Education (1954)
12th Annual Report to the Massachusetts State Board of Education http://www.tncrimlaw.com/civil_bible/horace_mann.htm (1848); published in Life and Works of Horace Mann Vol. III, (1868) edited by Mary Mann, p. 669
Context: Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, — the balance-wheel of the social machinery. I do not here mean that it so elevates the moral nature as to make men disdain and abhor the oppression of their fellow-men. This idea pertains to another of its attributes. But I mean that it gives each man the independence and the means by which he can resist the selfishness of other men. It does better than to disarm the poor of their hostility towards the rich: it prevents being poor.
Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974), Ch. 30
Context: It is an immortal dialogue, strange and puzzling at first, but then hitting you harder and harder, like truth itself. What Phædrus has been talking about as Quality, Socrates appears to have described as the soul, self-moving, the source of all things. There is no contradiction. There never really can be between the core terms of monistic philosophies. The One in India has got to be the same as the One in Greece. If it's not, you've got two. The only disagreements among the monists concern the attributes of the One, not the One itself. Since the One is the source of all things and includes all things in it, it cannot be defined in terms of those things, since no matter what thing you use to define it, the thing will always describe something less than the One itself. The One can only be described allegorically, through the use of analogy, of figures of imagination and speech. Socrates chooses a heaven-and-earth analogy, showing how individuals are drawn toward the One by a chariot drawn by two horses.
Es gibt zwei Sorten von Männern. Die einen verstehen 'etwas von Frauen', die anderen sind solche, die einfach 'Frauen verstehen'.
Netzkarte (1981)
In the The Bicycle Rider In Beverly Hills (1952) Saroyan additionally wrote of Shaw:
He was a gentle, delicate, kind, little man who had established a pose, and then lived it so steadily and effectively that the pose had become real. Like myself, his nature has been obviously a deeply troubled one in the beginning. He had been a man who had seen the futility, meaninglessness and sorrow of life but had permitted himself to thrust aside these feelings and to perform another George Bernard Shaw, which is art and proper.
Hello Out There (1941)
Cavett http://books.google.com/books?id=CE4NAQAAMAAJ&q=%22You+can+after+all+reduce+the+reasons+for+watching+TV+to+but+two+to+be+lulled+and+to+be+stimulated+Some+people+do+one+sometimes+the+other+sometimes+Some+people+do+all+of+one+or+all+of+the+other%22&pg=PA331#v=onepage, co-authored with Christopher Porterfield (1974)
Excerpted in New York magazine July 22, 1974 http://books.google.com/books?id=kekCAAAAMBAJ&q=%22You+can+after+all+reduce+the+reasons+for+watching+TV+to%22+%22two+to+be+lulled+and+to+be+stimulated+Some+people+do+one+sometimes+the+other+sometimes+Some+people+do+all+of+one+or+all+of+the+other%22&pg=PA34#v=onepage
Variant: All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
Source: Animal Farm
Panzer Leader (1952), Ch. 13 : Leading Personalities of the Third Reich, p. 432