The Motive Power Of Democracy Is Love

There Are Manifold Tones Of Mental Life, Or, In Other Words, Our Psychic Life May Be Lived At Different Heights, Now Nearer To Action, Now Further Removed From It, According To The Degree Of Our Attention To Life.

Is It Astonishing That, Like Children Trying To Catch Smoke By Closing Their Hands, Philosophers So Often See The Object They Would Grasp Fly Before Them?

Spirit Borrows From Matter The Perceptions On Which It Feeds And Restores Them To Matter In The Form Of Movements Which It Has Stamped With Its Own Freedom.

All The Translations Of A Poem In All Possible Languages May Add Nuance To Nuance And, By A Kind Of Mutual Retouching, By Correcting One Another, May Give An Increasingly Faithful Picture Of The Poem They Translate, Yet They Will Never Give The Inner Meaning Of The Original.

An Absolute Can Only Be Given In An Intuition, While All The Rest Has To Do With Analysis. We Call Intuition Here The Sympathy By Which One Is Transported Into The Interior Of An Object In Order To Coincide With What There Is Unique Andconsequently Inexpressible In It. Analysis, On The Contrary, Is The Operation Which Reduces The Object To Elements Already Known.