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“In that world, you'll be able to rise in the morning with the spirit you had known in your childhood: that spirit of eagerness, adventure and certainty which comes from dealing with a rational universe.”

World Able Spirit Religion Universe Known Morning Childhood Adventure Rational Certainty Your Children Eagerness

Book:Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

“With its claims to profundity, boldness and originality, thinking still limits itself provisionally to the exclusively rational and scientific. ... As soon as it lays hold of the feelings, it becomes spirit.”

Thinking Stills Feelings Spirit Limits Claims Lays Rational Originality Boldness Profundity

Book:Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses

Source: Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses

“Any play that makes an audience think out of the box, that makes connections to life and names our pain and by doing so makes our pain subject to thinking and the process of understanding, is doing something inherently political. By promoting understanding, by putting experience in context, by making connections between the normal and the rational, theatre is an act of anti-terrorism. It stimulates courage and a survival spirit. In that sense of political, there are a lot of serious plays doing their work in the world.”

Thinking World Play Pain Political Spirit Names Process Understanding Audience Subjects Serious Normal Survival Connections Boxes Terrorism Theatre Rational Promoting Anti Terrorism

Author:John Lahr

“I really don't put it down. I never have. It's just that I analyze it and look at it from a very rational point of view. I don't see it as coming from God and say that at a certain point the Holy Spirit zaps you with a super whammy on the head and you've "gone for tongues" and there is it. Tongues is a process that people build up to. Then, as you start to do something, just as when you practice the scales on the piano, you get better at it.”

People Looks Spirit Certain Process Views Practice Gone Atheism Holy Positive Atheism Tongue Point Of View Scales Rational Piano Get Better Holy Spirit

Author:Marjoe Gortner

“A history of civilization shares the presumptuousness of every philosophical enterprise: it offers the ridiculous spectacle of a fragment expounding the whole. Like philosophy, such a venture has no rational excuse, and is at best but a brave stupidity; but let us hope that, like philosophy, it will always lure some rash spirits into its fatal depths.”

Philosophy Whole Spirit Share Civilization Offers Philosophical Brave Depth Excuse Stupidity Ridiculous Rational Enterprise Venture Fragments Lure

Book:Our Oriental Heritage: The Story of Civilization

Source: Our Oriental Heritage: The Story of Civilization