“ Religion, mysticism and magic all spring from the same basic 'feeling' about the universe: a sudden feeling of meaning, which human beings sometimes 'pick up' accidentally, as your radio might pick up some unknown station. Poets feel that we are cut off from meaning by a thick, lead wall, and that sometimes for no reason we can understand the wall seems to vanish and we are suddenly overwhelmed with a sense of the infinite interestingness of things. ”
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“ The evidence of paranormal research shows that there is a part of our being that knows far more than the conscious mind. And the evidence of mystics through the ages suggests that there is a part of our being that knows even greater secrets than this. ”
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“ Yet there was an air of good humor about their idealism that made me feel they would not be too offended if I admitted that I regard socialists as well-meaning but muddle-headed brigands. ”
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“ The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it. ”
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“ The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain. ”
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“ The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain. ”
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“ The attempt to possess a woman through an act of sex is as frustrating as trying to possess the scent of a rose by cooking and eating it. ”
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“ The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain. ”
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“ The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it. ”
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“ The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it. ”
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“ It struck me that the popularity of Christmas is a matter of web-like consciousness. Childhood conditions us to relax and expand at Christmas, to forget petty worries and irritations and think in terms of universal peace. And so Christmas is the nearest to mystical experience that most human beings ever approach, with its memories of Dickens and Irving's Bracebridge Hall. ”
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“ The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain. ”
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“ When I open my eyes in the morning, I am not confronted by a world, but by a million possible worlds. ”
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“ The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain. ”
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“ It is true that there are exercises that can strengthen the 'muscle' that enable us to push back the bounds of acceptation. But these are relatively unimportant. The real problem is that we are trapped in misconceptions that always deceive us, as the matador's cape deceives the bull; that continue to deceive us a million times over the course of a lifetime… ”
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“ The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain. ”
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“ A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors. ”
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“ Isaiah Berlin once said that there are two kinds of writers, hedgehogs and foxes. He said the fox knows many things, the hedgehog knows just one thing. So Shakespeare is a typical fox; Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky are typical hedgehogs. Now, I'm a typical hedgehog… ”
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“ The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it. ”
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“ The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it. ”
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“ It is true that there are exercises that can strengthen the 'muscle' that enable us to push back the bounds of acceptation. But these are relatively unimportant. The real problem is that we are trapped in misconceptions that always deceive us, as the matador's cape deceives the bull; that continue to deceive us a million times over the course of a lifetime… ”
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“ Isaiah Berlin once said that there are two kinds of writers, hedgehogs and foxes. He said the fox knows many things, the hedgehog knows just one thing. So Shakespeare is a typical fox; Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky are typical hedgehogs. Now, I'm a typical hedgehog… ”
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“ A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors. ”
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“ When I open my eyes in the morning, I am not confronted by a world, but by a million possible worlds. ”
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