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Stoics, The Stoics or Stoicism NULL
The Stoics agree to put in the forefront the doctrine of presentation and sensation, inasmuch as the standard by which the truth of things is tested is generically a presentation, and again the theory of assent and that of apprehension and thought, which precedes all the rest, cannot be stated apart from presentation. For presentation comes first; then thought, which is capable of expressing itself, puts into the form of a propositions that which the subject receives from a presentation. [Diocles the Magnesian]
Theodore Dreiser, fully Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser
In any group of men I have ever known, speaking from the point of view of character and not that of physical appearance, Peter would stand out as deliciously and irrefutably different. In the great waste of American intellectual dreariness he was an oasis, a veritable spring in the desert. He understood life. He knew men. He was free--spiritually, morally, in a thousand ways, it seemed to me.
Theodore Dreiser, fully Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser
At once Clyde’s countenance darkened. The witchery of her look was too much for him. The skin of his forehead crinkled and then smoothed out. His eyes burned lustfully and bitterly, his old resentment of life and deprivation showing. No doubt all she said was true. There were others who had more and would spend more. He was boasting and being ridiculous and she was laughing at him.
How body from spirit slowly does unwind, until we are pure spirit at the end.
The stones were sharp, the wind came at my back; walking along the highway, mincing like a cat.
Theodore Dreiser, fully Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser
Remember, love is all a woman has to give, but it is the only thing which God permits us to carry beyond the grave.
What shakes the eye but the invisible? Running from God's the longest race of all.
We have got to begin a vast reclamation project to revitalize religion for those to whom it means little or nothing. This can be done not by trying to persuade those outside the church to believe what we believe but by pointing out to them the presence of the unrecognized religion that already exists in their lives.
Capacity | History | Men | Need | People | Soul | Truth | Wisdom | Wise | Leadership |
A typical vice of American politics — the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues, and the announcement of radical policies with much sound and fury, and at the same time with a cautious accompaniment of weasel phrases each of which sucks the meat out of the preceding statement.
Théophile Gautier, fully Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier, aka Le Bon Theo
It is a difficult matter to gain the affection of a cat. He is a philosophical, methodical animal, tenacious of his own habits, fond of order and neatness, and disinclined to extravagant sentiment. He will be your friend, if he finds you worthy of friendship, but not your slave.
Custom | Enjoyment | God | Good | Life | Life | Love | Reading | Rest | Reward | Sense | Soul | Thought | God | Privilege | Thought |
Théophile Gautier, fully Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier, aka Le Bon Theo
Fortune loves to give bedroom slippers to people with wooden legs, and gloves to those with no hands.
Soul |
The one being abhorrent to the powers above the earth and under them is the hyphenated American
Working women have the same need to protection that working men have; the ballot is as necessary for one class as to the other; we do not believe that with the two sexes there is identity of function; but we do believe there should be equality of right.
Acceptance | Bravery | Charity | Gentleness | Heart | Judgment | Labor | Oppression | Soul | Temper | Tenderness | War | Hardship |
Théophile Gautier, fully Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier, aka Le Bon Theo
With all women gentleness is the most persuasive and powerful argument.
Soul |
I practice going home by walking, sitting, and doing things in mindfulness so I do not lose myself.
Loneliness | Soul |