There is nothing so uncertain as a sure thing.
We should be sensitive to the thread of silence from which the tissue of speech is woven.
Machiavelli is the complete contrary of a machiavellian, since he describes the tricks of power and gives the whole show away. The seducer and the politician, who live in the dialectic and have a feeling and instinct for it, try their best to keep it hidden.
Science manipulates things and gives up living in them. It makes its own limited models of things; operating upon these indices or variables to effect whatever transformations are permitted by their definition, it comes face to face with the real world only at rare intervals. Science is and always will be that admirably active, ingenious, and bold way of thinking whose fundamental bias is to treat everything as though it were an object-in-general - as though it meant nothing to us and yet was predestined for our own use.
[The sensate body possesses] an art of interrogating the sensible according to its own wishes, an inspired exegesis
My own words take me by surprise and teach me what to think.
True reflection presents me to myself not as idle and inaccessible subjectivity, but as identical with my presence in the world and to others, as I am now realizing it: I am all that I see, I am an intersubjective field, not despite my body and historical situation, but, on the contrary, by being this body and this situation, and through them, all the rest.
Smile your best smile at everyone you see. Think about all the things you have to be thankful for. . . and smile. The world will smile with you.
Many patients imagine that they have tried everything. True, they have used many remedies, but they have never had the cause of their infirmity adjusted.
But what club wouldn't welcome the chance to strengthen their side, what club would turn down the resources Chelsea have?
The different parts of the automobile like the ignition switch, the various buttons, the steering wheel - the interfaces between the driver and the machine - is our spirit or heart.