Theory is taught so as to make the student believe that he or she can become a Marxist, a feminist, an Afrocentrist, or a deconstructionist with about the same effort and commitment required in choosing items from a menu.
Imagination is not enough. Knowledge is necessary.
In India nearly everybody spoke metaphorically except the English who spoke bluntly and could make their most transparent lies look honest as a consequence; whereas any truth contained in these metaphorical rigmaroles was so deviously presented that it looked devious itself.
Ah, well, the truth is always one thing, but in a way it's the other thing, the gossip, that counts. It shows where people's hearts lie.
English is the language of a people ho have probably earned their reputation for perfidy and hypocrisy because their language itself is so flexible, so often light-headed with with statements which appear to mean one thing one year and quite a different thing the next.
The past becomes a texture, an ambience to our present.
Rumours began with the whispered gossip of native servants and spread quickly to the rest of the population.
Prayer is to the spiritual life what the beating of the pulse and the drawing of the breath are to the life of the body.
The more closely you look at one thing, the less closely can you see something else.
Food affects the mind. For the practice of any kind of yoga, vegetarianism is absolutely necessary since it makes the mind more pure and harmonious.
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?