A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) (1990)
Tales of Un-DARE-ing Do http://hyperreal.org/~mpesce/undaringdo.html
Volume 1, p. 191
The Prophets (1962)
“Today the greatest single source of wealth is between your ears.”
“When the bird of the heart begins to sing, too often will reason stop up her ears.”
The Prisoner (October 1845)
Context: p>But first a hush of peace, a soundless calm descends;
The struggle of distress and fierce impatience ends
Mute music sooths my breast — unuttered harmony
That I could never dream till earth was lost to me.Then dawns the Invisible; the Unseen its truth reveals;
My outward sense is gone, my inward essence feels —
Its wings are almost free, its home, its harbour found;
Measuring the gulf, it stoops and dares the final bound — O, dreadful is the check — intense the agony
When the ear begins to hear and the eye begins to see;
When the pulse begins to throb, the brain to think again,
The soul to feel the flesh and the flesh to feel the chain.Yet I would lose no sting, would wish no torture less;
The more that anguish racks the earlier it will bless;
And robed in fires of Hell, or bright with heavenly shine
If it but herald Death, the vision is divine —</p
“Safety is something that happens between your ears, not something you hold in your hands.”
“The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.”
Dissenting, Public utilities Commission v. Pollak, 343 U.S. 451, 467 (1952)
Judicial opinions
“You don't want to become so open minded that the wind whistles between your ears.”
Industrialism and Cultural Values (1950), a paper presented at meetings of the American Economic Association in Chicago, published in The Bias of Communication (1951) p. 138.
The Bias of Communication (1951)
