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“Pageantry is a visionary art which has been used, from time immemorial, as a political instrument.”

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This book delves into the profound and enduring themes of heaven and hell, offering insights into their representation across different belief systems and philosophical thought. It investigates the nature of these concepts, their historical development, and their impact on human understanding of morality, afterlife, and the divine. more

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Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley was an English writer and philosopher, renowned for his dystopian novel 'Brave New World'. Born on July 26, 1894, in Godalming, Surrey, England, he was the younger brother of the poet and critic Leonard Huxley. Huxley's works frequently delved into the interplay of science, politics, and philosophy, and he was a prominent figure in the literary movement known as the 'Lost Generation'. He passed away on November 22, 1963. more

“Visionary experience is not the same as mystical experience. Mystical experience is beyond the realm of opposites. Visionary experience is still within that realm. Heaven entails hell, and 'going to heaven' is no more liberation than is the descent into horror. Heaven is merely a vantage point from which the divine Ground can be more clearly seen than on the level of ordinary individual experience.”

Stills Individual Heaven Levels Hell Divine Horror Ordinary Opposites Liberation Realms Mystical Visionaries Descent Vantage Point Going To Heaven Mystical Experiences

Book:Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948

Source: Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948

“In Shakespeare's plays, the mourner hastening to bury his friend is all the time colliding with the reveller hastening to his wine.”

Play Wine Shakespeare's Plays

Author:Samuel Johnson

“Health is the greatest of blessings - with health and hope we should be content to live.”

Should Blessing

Book:Delphi Complete Works of John Keats (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of John Keats (Illustrated)

“Feeling well that breathed words Would all be lost, unheard, and vain as swords Against the enchased crocodile, or leaps Of grasshoppers against the sun.”

Wells Feelings Lost Sun Vain Leap Unheard Crocodiles Grasshoppers

Book:The Complete Poetry of John Keats: Ode on a Grecian Urn + Ode to a Nightingale + Hyperion + Endymion + The Eve of St. Agnes + Isabella + Ode to Psyche + Lamia + Sonnets and more from one of the most beloved English Romantic poets

Source: The Complete Poetry of John Keats: Ode on a Grecian Urn + Ode to a Nightingale + Hyperion + Endymion + The Eve of St. Agnes + Isabella + Ode to Psyche + Lamia + Sonnets and more from one of the most beloved English Romantic poets

“Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.”

Men Believe May Wisdom Wise Intelligence Witty Acknowledge Eloquent Nature Of Man Leviathan

Book:Leviathan, Parts I and II

Source: Leviathan, Parts I and II

“... Who alive can say 'Thou art no Poet - mayst not tell thy dreams'? Since every man whose soul is not a clod Hath visions, and would speak, if he had loved, And been well nurtured in his mother tongue.”

Ifs Men Wells Art Soul Dream Mother Speak Vision Alive Poet Tongue Every Man Mother Tongue

Book:The complete poetical works and letters of John Keats

Source: The complete poetical works and letters of John Keats

“Men who not religious or artists are fools.”

Men Artist Religious Fool

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“Each dog barks in his own yard!”