[S]uddenly the course of events was completely changed by one of those picturesque incidents which Statesmen ought never to neglect, often to anticipate, and sometimes perhaps to originate, because of...
Few are the hearts whose happy lot it is at once to recognize in each other's voices the partner intended for them by Providence, and to fly into a reciprocal and perfectly harmonious embrace. With mo...
Attend to your Configuration.
E traine questa lezione: che l'essere soddisfatti di sé significa essere vili e ignoranti, e che è sempre meglio aspirare a qualcosa che essere ciecamente, e impotentemente, felici
لو كنت رجلاً منطقيا - مع أنني أرتاب بعض الشيء في كونكـ رجلا – لأنكـ تمتلكـ فيما يبدو صوتا واحدا، ولكن لو كانت لديكـ ذرة من المنطق، لاستمعت إلى صوت العقل، أنت تطلب مني أن أصدق أن هناكـ نوعا أخر من الحر...
All this very plausible reasoning does not convince me, as it has not convinced the wisest of our Statesmen, that our ancestors erred in laying it down as an axiom of policy that the toleration of Irr...
فمع النساء نتحدث عن «الحب» و«الواجب» و«الصواب» و«الخطأ» و«العطف» و«الأمل» وغيرها من المفاهيم العاطفية المنافية للعقل التي لا وجود لها في الواقع، ولا تفيدنا هذه الأوهام إلا في السيطرة على العواطف الزائ...
All alike the Slaves of our respective Dimensional prejudices,
Distress not yourself if you cannot at first understand the deeper mysteries of Spaceland. By degrees they will dawn upon you.
Doubtless we cannot see that other higher Spaceland now, because we have no eye in our stomachs.
Either this is madness or it is Hell. It is neither, calmly replied the voice of the Sphere, it is Knowledge; it is Three Dimensions: open your eye once again and try to look steadily.
Theologian
For why should the thirst for knowledge be aroused, only to be disappointed and punished?
He prayeth well who loveth wellBoth man and bird and beast.He prayeth best that loveth bestAll things both great and small;
I neglected my clients and my own business to give myself to the contemplation of the mysteries which I had once beheld, yet which I could impart to no one, and found daily more difficult to reproduce...
If a man with a triangular front and a polygonal back were allowed to exist and to propagate a still more Irregular posterity, what would become of the arts of life? Are the houses and doors and churc...
If our highly pointed triangles of the soldier class are formidable, it may be readily inferred that far more formidable are our women. For if a soldier is a wedge, a women is a needle; being, so to s...
The birth of children is too important a matter to have been allowed to depend upon such an accident as proximity.
In One Dimensions, did not a moving Point produce a Line with two terminal points?In two Dimensions, did not a moving Line produce a Square wit four terminal points?In Three Dimensions, did not a movi...
In a word, to comport oneself with perfect propriety in Polygonal society, one ought to be a Polygon oneself. Such at least is the painful teaching of my experience.
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