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“What exhibit buildings God will have! The historical exhibits, the scientific exhibits, the spiritual exhibits, to be able to see the marvelous wonders of the Spirit World!”

World Able Spiritual Spirit Wonder Building Historical Gods Will Heavenly Marvelous Exhibits Spirit World

Author:David Berg

“If a powerful and benevolent spirit has shaped the destiny of this world, we can better discover that destiny from the words that have gathered up the heart's desire of the world, than from historical records, or from speculation, wherein the heart withers.”

Ifs World Heart Spirit Desire Powerful Destiny Records This World Historical Speculation Benevolent

Book:The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume IV: Early Essays

Source: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume IV: Early Essays

“Most expositions of Aristotle's doctrines, when they have not been dictated by a spirit of virulent detraction, or unsympathetic indifference, have carefully suppressed all, or nearly all, the absurdities, and only retained what seemed plausible and consistent. But in this procedure their historical significance disappears.”

Spirit Historical Disappear Doctrine Indifference Consistent Significance Absurdity Procedures Plausible Unsympathetic Historical Significance

Book:Aristotle: a chapter from the history of science including analyses of Aristotle's scientific writings

Source: Aristotle: a chapter from the history of science including analyses of Aristotle's scientific writings

“Nietzsche inveighs against every sort of historical optimism; but he energetically repudiates the ordinary pessimism, which is the result of degenerate or enfeebled instincts of decadence. He preaches with youthful enthusiasm the triumph of a tragic culture, introduced by an intrepid rising generation, in which the spirit of ancient Greece might be born again. He rejects the pessimism of Schopenhauer, for he already abhors all renunciation; but he seeks a pessimism of healthiness, one derived from strength, from exuberant power, and he believes he has found it in the Greeks.”

“The claim of the Zen followers that they are transmitting the essence of Buddhism is based on their belief that Zen takes hold of the enlivening spirit of the Buddha, stripped of all its historical and doctrinal garments.”

Spirit Belief Buddhism Essence Claims Historical Followers Garments

Book:Essays in Zen Buddhism

Source: Essays in Zen Buddhism

“All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts.”

“Maya Jasanoff's Liberty's Exiles places the loyalist experience and the aftermath of the American Revolution in an entirely new light. Alongside the Spirit of 1776, Jasanoff gives us the Spirit of 1783, dedicated to remaking the mighty British Empire, and then offers a stunning reinterpretation of the Loyalists' complicated role in that remaking. Her meticulously researched and superbly written account is historical revision at its finest, and it affirms her place as one of the very finest historians of the rising generation.”

“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