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“Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition of our existence. If the lore of the transmigration of souls is a true one, then these, between their exchange of bodies, must pass through the sea of forgetfulness.”

Ifs Book Soul Body Remember Forget Existence Sea Conditions Opposites Forgetfulness True Ones

Book:The Nazarene

Source: The Nazarene

“A good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life; but he can only attain happiness under the opposite conditions”

Men May Happiness Poverty Conditions Disease Opposites Good Man

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)

“Faith always presented to the mind the idea of an abnormal intellectual condition, of the subversion or suspension of the critical faculties. It sometimes comprised more than this, but it always included this. It was the opposite of doubt and of the spirit of doubt. What irreverent men called credulity, reverent men called faith; and although one word was more respectful than the other, yet the two words were with most men strictly synonymous.”

Source: History of the rise and influence of the spirit of rationalism in Europe

“Liberty is the first condition of growth. Your ancestors gave every liberty to the soul, and religion grew. They put the body under every bondage, and society did not grow. The opposite is the case in the West - every liberty to society, none to religion. Now are falling off the shackles from the feet of Eastern society as from those of Western religion.”

Firsts Soul Body Fall Grows Growth Liberty Cases Feet Conditions Grew Opposites West Western Ancestor Eastern Bondage Shackles Falling Off

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“No person on earth has the power to make you unhappy. There is no event on earth that has the power to disturb you or hurt you. No event, condition, situation, or person. Nobody told you this; they told you the opposite. That's why you're in the mess you're in right now. That is why you're asleep. They never told you this. But it's self-evident.”

Persons Self Earth Hurt Situation Conditions Events Right Now Opposites Unhappy Mess Evident

Book:Awareness: Conversations with the Masters

Source: Awareness: Conversations with the Masters

“It is a strange fact, characteristic of the incomplete state of our current knowledge, that totally opposite conclusions are drawn about prehistoric conditions on Earth, depending on whether the problem is approached from the biological or the geophysical viewpoint.”

States Facts Problem Earth Conditions Strange Opposites Currents Conclusion Characteristics Incomplete Viewpoints Prehistoric

Author:Alfred Wegener

“American social arrangements, economic arrangements, the degree of inequality in American life, the relatively small role played by the government in American public life and so forth, compares to exactly the opposite conditions in most of the European societies.”

Government Social Roles Economic Conditions Degrees Opposites Inequality Compare Arrangements Public Life American Life Small Roles

Author:Tony Judt