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“.. giving plastic reality to inner states of the mind.”
1910's
“What led manyness nearly to destroy oneness was the presence of slavery in many of the states.”
2000s, Is Diversity Good? (2003)
Context: The motto of the United States is "e pluribus unum", or "from many, one." Originally, this referred to the one union formed from the many states. It became the motto of the country because we had to fight a great civil war to prevent the manyness of the states from destroying the oneness of the union. What led manyness nearly to destroy oneness was the presence of slavery in many of the states. The diversity that tolerated the difference between slavery and freedom had become intolerable. A crisis had been reached in which, according to the greatest American, the house divided had to cease being divided. It had to become either all free or all slave.
“Being happy, a state of mind of inner well-being that terribly disturbs those who are not.”
Original: (it) L'esser felice, uno stato d'animo di benessere interiore che disturba terribilmente chi non lo è.
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The Washington Post. February 2, 2000. Interview conducted by Antoine K. Kehdy of Middle East Insight magazine.
Source: Interview http://www.library.cornell.edu/colldev/mideast/hzblhnsr.htm
Quote, 2000
Session 871
The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events, (1981)
[I] Signs, 1.2.2
Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language (1984)
Context: The sign is a gesture produced with the intention of communicating, that is, in order to transmit one's representation or inner state to another being. The existence of a certain rule (a code) enabling both the sender and the addressee to understand the manifestation in the same way must, of course, be presupposed if the transmission is to be successful; in this sense, navy flags, street signs, signboards, trademarks, labels, emblems, coats of arms, and letters are taken to be signs.<!-- Dictionaries and cultivated language must at this point agree and take as signs also words, that is, the elements of verbal language. In all the cases examined here, the relationship between the and that for which it stands seems to be less adventurous than for the first category.
The Bible and the Schools (1966), p. 58
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