Reflect Upon The Defects Of Your Character: Thoroughly Realize Their Evils And The Transient Pleasures They Give You, And Firmly Will That You Shall Try Your Best Not To Yield To Them The Next Time.
A Bad Plan That Is Well Executed Will Yield Much Better Results Than A Good Plan That Is Poorly Executed.
Aphorism, N. Predigested Wisdom. The Flabby Wine-skin Of His Brain Yields To Some Pathologic Strain, And Voids From Its Unstored Abysm The Driblet Of An Aphorism. "the Mad Philosopher," 1697
Battle, N., A Method Of Untying With The Teeth A Political Knot That Would Not Yield To The Tongue.
If We Are To Have A Culture As Resilient And Competent In The Face Of Necessity As It Needs To Be, Then It Must Somehow Involve Within Itself A Ceremonious Generosity Toward The Wilderness Of Natural Force And Instinct. The Farm Must Yield A Place To The Forest, Not As A Wood Lot, Or Even As A Necessary Agricultural Principle But As A Sacred Grove - A Place Where The Creation Is Let Alone, To Serve As Instruction, Example, Refuge; A Place For People To Go, Free Of Work And Presumption, To Let Themselves Alone. (pg. 125, The Body And The Earth)
Kind Words Cost No More Than Unkind Ones . . . And We May Scatter The Seeds Of Courtesy And Kindliness Around Us At So Little Expense. If You Would Fall Into Any Extreme Let It Be On The Side Of Gentleness. The Human Mind Is So Constructed That It Resists Vigor And Yields To Softness.
The People Who Live In The Past Must Yield To The People Who Live In The Future. Otherwise The World Would Begin To Turn The Other Way Round.
... [l]ess Than At Any Time Does A Simple Reproduction Of Reality Tell Us Anything About Reality. A Photograph Of The Krupp Works Or Gec Yields Almost Nothing About Those Institutions. Reality Proper Has Slipped Into The Functional. The Reification Of Human Relationships, The Factory, Let's Say, No Longer Reveals These Relationships. Therefore Something Has To Be Constructed, Something Artificial, Something Set Up.
I Think There's A Lot That The Larger Society Could Have Been Taught Or Can Be Taught, But I'm Not Sure - Given How Unyielding The Larger Society Has Been - That Much Has Been Learned.
The Way To Avoid Evil Is Not By Maiming Our Passions, But By Compelling Them To Yield Their Vigor To Our Moral Nature.
Still, Intuitive Assumptions About Behavior Is Only The Starting Point Of Systematic Analysis, For Alone They Do Not Yield Many Interesting Implications.
