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Next morning- bright and cheerful out of doors- stole softened in through the blinds of the silent room, and suffused the couch and its occupant with a mellow, tender glow.

what a great passage. her feelings towards heathcliff were so so sweet. i sure hope nothing bad happens and they end up together <3

This is the Folly which triumphs over all the wisdom of the world. That is why the prophet compares all the justice of mortal men with the soiled linen of a menstruating woman; not because the justice of good men is polluted, but because whatever is pure among men is somehow impure when compared with the ineffable purity of God.

Pleasure and power do not cancel or turn back against one another; they seek out, overlap, and reinforce one another. They are linked together by complex mechanisms and devices of excitation and incitement.

"But rats, Wickett, a man can't know everything. Strikes me a fellow ought to use his insight, not just a chest of tools, to make discoveries. A good sailor could find his way at sea even if he didn't have instruments. Man ought to develop his brain, not depend on tools."
"Ye-uh, but if there were charts and quadrants in existence, a sailor that cruised off without 'em would be a chump!"

You have curiosity and you are stubborn.
You do not accept rules. Therefore I t'ink you will either make a very good scientist or a very bad one, and if you are bad enough, you will be popular with the rich ladies who rule this city, New York, and you can gif lectures for a living or even become, if you get to be plausible enough, a college president. So anyvay, it will be interesting."

I shall merely mention that he was a man with a conscience (sometimes, that is) and therefore was often depressed.

I will not be middle-aged and cautious and monogamist and moral! It's against my religion. I demand the right to be free--

she was as easily and automatically contented by herself as a pussycat, and he had never before worried about her amusement.a

does anything matter, except making love and sleeping and eating and being flattered?

He had the personal touchiness of most propagandists; he believed that because he was sincere, therefore his opinions must always be correct. To demand that he be accurate and his statements, to quote Raymond pearls dictum: "as a matter of objective scientific fact, extremely little is known about why the mortality from tuberculosis has declined"-- this was to be a scoundrel who really liked to befoul the pavements.

under repair!

"As we saw in proceeding chapters, the visual system of the brain comprises some 50 regions that take raw pixels and effortlessly organize them into surfaces, colors, motions, and three dimensional objects. We can no more turn the system off and get immediate access to pure sensory experience than we can override our stomachs and tell them when to release their digestive enzymes."

I was not expecting this book to be so casually antisemitic 😭

The political scientist John Vasquez has made the point quantitatively. Using a database of hundreds of conflicts from the past two centuries, he concludes that the ingredients of a Hobbesian trap- concern with security, and tangling alliances, and arms races- can statistically predict the escalation of friction into war.

Like all ardent agnostics, Martin was a religious man.

Robert was a square-rigged, swart, tempestuous boy, arrogant where there seemed to be no reason for arrogance, longed for by the anemic, milky sort of girls, yet ever supercilious to them.

Her companionship released his soul.

"This poor animal will now soon be dead as Moses." The class glanced at one another uneasily. "Some of you will think that it does not matter; some of you will think, like Bernard Shaw, that I am an executioner and the more monstrous because I am cool about it; and some of you will not think at all. This difference in philosophy is what makes life interesting.

"Many kinds and degree of existence lie between the living and the dead, and that will become even more true as medical technology improves."

"Suffering and pain are always mandatory for a broad minds and deep hearts. Truly great people, it seems to me, should feel great sadness on this earth."

Everything inside him was at sixes and sevens.

"In the years between the "emancipation" of women won by the feminists and the sexual counterrevolution of the feminine mystique, American women enjoyed a decade-by-decade increase in sexual orgasm."

Capacities clamor to be used, and cease their clamor only when they are well used. That is, capacities are also needs. Not only is it fun to use our capacities, but it is also necessary. The unused capacity or organ can become a disease center or else atrophy, thus diminishing the person.

For, of course, the manufacturer's problem was not to satisfy woman's need for individuality, for expression or creativity, but to sell more patterns-which is better done by building conformity.

Time and time again, the surveys shrewdly analyzed the need. and even the secret frustrations of the American housewife; and each time if these needs were properly manipulated, she could be induced to buy more "things."

"Some social theorists even suspect that the very absence of other concerns, in that dying Austrian empire, caused the sexual preoccupation of Freud's patients."

"I should like a thoroughly bad climate. I believe one would write better if the climate were bad. If there were a lot of wind and storms, for example..."

"Sweat stood in beads on either their foot, rung from my blood by agony."

"Suspicion cannot be overcome by being fed upon untruth itself, and suspicion is the condition of most unbalanced minds. I am convinced that the unhappiness of many such would be greatly decreased if, as nearly as possible, they received at the hands of sane persons the treatment accord to sane persons."

"... strictly speaking, the rash act which followed cannot correctly be called an attempt at suicide- for, how can a man who is not himself kill himself?"