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“I think my view is that whenever you project into the future you're never likely to be accurate in the details, or the paraphernalia and style. It's in the spirit of it.”

Thinking Spirit Views Style Projects Details Accurate

Author:Stephen Fry

“The Hindu religion appears ... as a cathedral temple, half in ruins, noble in the mass, often fantastic in detail but always fantastic with a significance crumbling or badly outworn in places, but a cathedral temple in which service is still done to the Unseen and its real presence can be felt by those who enter with the right spirit.”

Stills Real Done Spirit Felt Half Mass Details Noble Ruins Fantastic Temples Significance Unseen Cathedrals Crumbling Hindu Religion

Book:Letters on Yoga

Source: Letters on Yoga

“A democratic constitution, not supported by democratic institutions in detail, but confined to the central government, not only is not political freedom, but often creates a spirit precisely the reverse, carrying down to the lowest grade in society the desire and ambition of political domination.”

Source: Principles of political economy with some of their applications to social philosophy

“The heathen spirit is wingless. It cannot lift itself to heights from which the totality of being is visible, and it therefore loses itself in details.”

Spirit Loses Details Lifts Height Visible Totality Heathen

Book:What I Believe

Source: What I Believe

“If the religious spirit be ever mentioned in any historical narration, we are sure to meet afterwards with a detail of the miseries which attend it. And no period of time can be happier or more prosperous, than those in which it is never regarded or heard of.”

Ifs Spirit Religion Religious Heard Periods Misery Historical Details Prosperous Narration

Book:Dialogues and Natural History of Religion

Source: Dialogues and Natural History of Religion