“An unbending and absolute acceptance of any idea is a sure sign of a small mind, no matter the greatness of intellect possesed by the one accepting that idea.” LifeMindIdeasMatterAcceptingAcceptanceGreatnessAbsolutesIntellectSmall Minds Author:Derek R. Audette
“Religions, creeds and forms are only a characteristic outward sign of the spiritual impulsion and religion itself is the intensive action by which it tries to find its inward force. Its expansive movement comes in the thought which it throws out on life, the ideals which open up new horizons and which the intellect accepts and life labours to assimilate.” TryingActionSpiritualFormForceAcceptingMovementIdealsIntellectCharacteristicsLabourHorizonCreedsInwardNew Horizons Book:Bulletin Source: Bulletin
“A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.” NeedsGivingFeelsHumansWellsAcceptingMarriageExpressionEqualIdealsInstinctIntellectPartnersSettingSettingsHuman RelationsHuman RelationshipsHappy Marriage Book:The Integrity of the Personality Source: The Integrity of the Personality
“It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may. Personally I would not care for immortality in the least. There is nothing better than oblivion, since in oblivion there is no wish unfulfilled. We had it before we were born, yet did not complain. Shall we whine because we know it will return? It is Elysium enough for me, at any rate.” KnowsMindMayEndsEnoughCareLostWishEasyBornAcceptingAtheismReturnIllusionRateIntellectPositive AtheismComplainingImmortalityRemoveSugarOblivionCraveFear NotFear NothingPlumsElysium Author:H. P. Lovecraft
“For creation is not a change, but that dependence of the created existence on the principle from which it is instituted, and thus is of the genus of relation; whence nothing prohibits it being in the created as in the subject. Creation is thus said to be a kind of change, according to the way of understanding, insofar as our intellect accepts one and the same thing as not existing before and afterwards existing.” WayKindSaidUnderstandingExistenceAcceptingPrinciplesSubjectsCreationRelationIntellectDependence Author:Thomas Aquinas
“The procedure we are pursuing is that of true democracy. Semi-democracy accepts the dictatorship of a majority in establishing its arbitrary, ergo, unnatural, laws. True democracy discovers by patient experiment and unanimous acknowledgement what the laws of nature or universe may be for the physical support and metaphysical satisfaction of the human intellect's function in universe.” HumansMayLawUniverseAcceptingSupportDemocracyFunctionMajorityPatientSatisfactionIntellectExperimentsDictatorshipMetaphysicalArbitraryLaws Of NatureProceduresUnnaturalNatural LawAcknowledgementTrue Democracy Book:Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth Source: Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth