"Surely you would not call the Thing complete without a tail."
All we ask of the Thing is to carry us through the air.
'Of a sudden things became mortal that before had learnt to be immortal, and things unmixed before mixed.'
Things are censured either as impossible, or irrational, or morally hurtful, or contradictory, or contrary to artistic correctness.
I never yet heard of a useless thing that was not ground out of existence by evolution sooner or later.
The thing before you is no longer an animal, a fellow-creature, but a problem!
He merely classified the things that hurt and the things that did not hurt.
He was aware only of curiosity in all the things about him.
Concerning the old carpenter who fixed the bed for the writer, I only mentioned him because he, like many of what are called very common people, became the nearest
thing to what is understandable and lovable of all the grotesques in the writer's book.
Rather would I succumb than disown this one
thing; and verily, where there is succumbing and leaf-falling, lo, there doth Life sacrifice itself--for power!
We are at all times during our waking life receiving a variety of impressions, which are aspects of a variety of
things. We have to consider what binds together two simultaneous sensations in one person, or, more generally, any two occurrences which forte part of one experience.
Indeed, it seems that in defining contraries of every kind men have recourse to a spatial metaphor, for they say that those
things are contraries which, within the same class, are separated by the greatest possible distance.
As in a city when the evil are permitted to have authority and the good are put out of the way, so in the soul of man, as we maintain, the imitative poet implants an evil constitution, for he indulges the irrational nature which has no discernment of greater and less, but thinks the same
thing at one time great and at another small-he is a manufacturer of images and is very far removed from the truth.
I now began to consider that I might yet get a great many
things out of the ship which would be useful to me, and particularly some of the rigging and sails, and such other
things as might come to land; and I resolved to make another voyage on board the vessel, if possible.
He says a great deal more about
things past than about
things to come; and though he does not always hit the truth in every case, most times he is not far wrong, so that he makes us fancy he has got the devil in him.