Satan always hates Christian fellowship; it is his policy to keep Christians apart. Anything which can divide saints from one another he delights in. He attaches far more importance to godly intercourse than we do. Since union is strength, he does his best to promote separation.
No other technique for the conduct of life attaches the individual so firmly to reality as laying emphasis on work; for his work at least gives him a secure place in a portion of reality, in the human community. The possibility it offers of displacing a large amount of libidinal components, whether narcissistic, aggressive or even erotic, on to professional work and on to the human relations connected with it lends it a value by no means second to what it enjoys as something indispensable to the preservation and justification of existence in society.
Neither books nor people have Velcro Sides -- there must be a bonding agent -- someone who attaches child to book.
Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
The bond that attaches us to the life outside ourselves is the same bond that holds us to our own life.
I say one thing, you write another, and those who read you understand still something else! I say: cross, death, kingdom of heaven, God. . . and what do you understand? Each of you attaches his own suffering, interests and desires to each of these sacred words, and my words disappear, my soul is lost. I can't stand it any longer!
It is a well-established fact that in healthy loving women, uninjured by the too frequent lesions which result from childbirth, increasing physical satisfaction attaches to the ultimate physical expression of love. . . . Love between the sexes is the highest and mightiest form of human sexual passion.
Dress has never been at all a straightforward business: so much subterranean interest and complex feeling attaches to it. As a topic. . . it has a flowery head but deep roots in the passion. On the subject of dress almost no one, for one or another reason, feels truly indifferent: if their own clothes do not concern them, somebody else's do. . . . Ten minutes talk about clothes (except between perfect friends) tends to make everyone present either overbearing, guarded or touchy.
Secrecy doesn't attach to particular parties; it attaches to power. All of the bull work is in place for whomever succeeds. That's my concern.
Pride attaches undue importance to the superiority of one's status in the eyes of others; and shame is fear of humiliation at one's inferior status in the estimation of others. When one sets one's heart on being highly esteemed, and achieves such rating, then he or she is automatically involved in fear of losing status.
The pleasure that attaches to the artistic life comes in imagining what we might do as opposed to acknowledging what we have done.
There is a peacefulness, an air of reflection, about a rocking-chair that attaches to no other moving object.
No-one who has a real understanding of the art of painting attaches any importance to what we call the subject of a picture - what is represented. To one who feels the language of pictorial form, all depends on how it is presented, nothing on what.
Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.
One of the weird things about L. A. is that there's always a set of negative perceptions that attaches itself to this city.
What accumulated knowledge exists in low grade societies is at least put into practice; it is transmuted into character; it exists with the depth of meaning that attaches to its coming within urgent daily interests.
A man attaches himself to woman -- not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches.
We know that Las Vegas is junk, but at the same time I think that exactly the same process and ultimately also, perhaps the same logic, attaches itself to or underlies our masterpieces. We live in an amazing era when in spite of an absence of masters there is an explosion of masterpieces.
In order effectively to liberate oneself from the grip of existing social reality, one should first renounce the transgressive fantasmatic supplement that attaches us to it.
