"Immediate knowledge tells us only that God is, not what he is. But if God is not an empty Being beyond the stars, he must be present in the communion of human spirits, and, in his relation to these, he is the One Spirit who pervades reality and thought. Hence there can be no final separation between our immediate consciousness of him and our mediated knowledge of reality."

Source : Joseph Alexander Leighton (1901). “Typical Modern Conceptions of God: Or, The Absolute of German Romantic Idealism and of English Evolutionary Agnosticism, with a Constructive Essay”

Joseph Alexander Leighton

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“And though the newspapers called the shooting the Crime of the Century, Goldman knew it was only 1906 and there were ninety-four years to go.”
“For life be, after all, only a waitin' for somethin' else than what we're doin'; and death be all that we can rightly depend on.”
“I'm afraid I take ... this rather clinical view of love: it's saving you from madness. I'm not so enthusiastic as other poets have been.”

Source : William Empson (2000). “The complete poems”, Lane, Allen
“The moment we let go of our obsessive concern for our own welfare, our mind naturally relaxes and becomes lighter.”

Source : Kelsang Gyatso (2001). “Transform Your Life: A Blissful Journey”, p.151, Tharpa Publications UK
“I had this idea that I wanted to do this mixture of visions of African American women and visions of African American men. And call it 'The Men' and call it 'The Women' and show different faces of these two people.”
“For me, acting is a series of impressions rather than trying to find one line through to the end, which risks becoming more of a presentation.”
“I want to be the George Clooney of music.”
“She needs to seem tough, and whatever Hillary's weaknesses, tough is a pretty good word to describe her.”

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