"Mysticism is, in essence, little more than a certain intensity and depth of feeling in regard to what is believed about the universe."

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Bertrand Russell

#Essence Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Depth Quotes

“I was always the one in the background or the donkey. I was never a star, I never got to be the main part.”

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“Your assignment of confidence limits each of the evidences, which allows for building a cumulative case for God's existence.”
“What ever is the natural propensity of a person is hard to overcome. If a dog were made a king, he would still gnaw at his shoes laces.”
“Each time a door closes, the rest of the world opens up.”
“Though I never ordered it, and never wished for it, I have never shed any tears over the event, because I believe that it hastened what we all fought for, the end of the war.”
“What law enforcement agencies and insurers do not understand is that driving while high is actually a safe activity,”
“The exterior must be joined to the interior to obtain anything from God, that is to say, we must kneel, pray with the lips, and soon, in order that proud man, who would not submit himself to God, may be now subject to the creature.”
“There is no mystery in a looking glass until someone looks into it. Then, though it remains the same glass, it presents a different face to each man who holds it in front of him. The same is true of a work of art. It has no proper existence as art until someone is reflected in it--and no two will ever be reflected in the same way. However much we all see in common in such a work, at the center we behold a fragment of our own soul, and the greater the art the greater the fragment.”

Source : Harold Clarke Goddard (1956). “The Meaning of Shakespeare”

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