And yet he was in the right! They were wrong and he was right. The obvious, the silly, and the true had got to be defended. Truisms are true, hold on to that! The solid world exists, its laws do not change. Stones are hard, water is wet, objects unsupported fall towards the earth’s centre.
George OrwellTag: truth philosophical classics fiction-novel
What happened to the classics?" you may ask. "Don't you believe in reading great literature to children?"
Nothing happened to the classics-but something happened to children: their imaginations went to sleep in front of the television set twenty-five years ago. Reading a classic to a child whose imagination is in a state of retarded development will not foster a love of literature in that child.
Tag: reading classics literacy-children read-aloud
In the eighties, when she chiefly flourished, husbands were taken seriously, as the only real obstacles to sin. Beds too, if they had to be mentioned, were approached with caution; and a decent reserve prevented them and husbands ever being spoken of in the same breath.
Elizabeth von ArnimTag: classics
I have seen or heard of no other man whom destiny treated with such enmity as it did Philoktetes
SophoclesTag: classics destiny gods greek greece
I shall never be converted, and I shall remain true to my old religion of the classics until my life's end.
Richard StraussTag: music classics musician conversion classical-music old-religion religion-of-music
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