Ordinary language carries with it conditions of meaning which it is easy to recognize by classifying the contexts in which the expression is employed in a meaningful manner.
Category Archive: 1913
All poets’ wives have rotten lives Their husbands look at them like knives.
One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.
I have a different idea of a universal. It is of a universal rich with all that is particular, rich with all the particulars there are, the deepening of each particular, the coexistence of them all.
At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
I had felt for a long time that, if I was ever told to get up so a white person could sit, that I would refuse to do so.
Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.
Those who speak of our culture as dead or dying have a quarrel with life, and I think they cannot understand its terms, but must endlessly repeat the projection of their own desires.
To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.
Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again.