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“Aesthetic pleasure is not to be taken lightly; it's very important for the spirit and therefore the health.”

Important Spirit Pleasure Taken Importance Aesthetic

Author:Robert Bateman

“And for Incoherent Speech, it was amongst the Gentiles taken for one sort of Prophecy, because the Prophets of their Oracles, intoxicated with a spirit, or vapor from the cave of the Pythian Oracle at Delphi, were for a time really mad, and spake like mad-men; of whoose loose words a sense might be made to fit any event, in such sort, as all bodies are said to be made of Materia prima .”

Men Made Said Body Might Spirit Taken Events Fit Speech Mad Prophet Prophecy Caves Mad Men Oracles Intoxicated Vapor Gentiles Delphi

Book:Leviathan

Source: Leviathan

“If this superstitious fear of Spirits were taken away, and with it, Prognostiques from Dreams, false Prophecies, and many other things depending thereon, by which, crafty ambitious persons abuse the simple people, men would be much more fitted then they are for civill Obedience.”

People Ifs Men Persons Dream Would Be Spirit Simple Taken Abuse Obedience Ambitious Prophecy Superstitious Crafty Ambitious Person

Book:Annotated LEVIATHAN with English Grammar Exercises: by Thomas Hobbes (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)

Source: Annotated LEVIATHAN with English Grammar Exercises: by Thomas Hobbes (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)

“Whenever philosophy has taken into its plan religion, it has ended in skepticism; and whenever religion excludes philosophy, or the spirit of free inquiry, it leads to willful blindness and superstition.”

Philosophy Spirit Taken Plans Atheism Positive Atheism Superstitions Skepticism Blindness Inquiry

Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Leaps over walls - especially when taken late in life - can be extremely perilous. To leap successfully, you need a sense of humor, the spirit of adventure and an unshakable conviction that what you are leaping over is an obstacle upon which you would otherwise fall down.”

Needs Spirit Fall Taken Risk Adventure Wall Late Conviction Obstacles Leap Sense Of Humor Falling Down Unshakable Spirit Of Adventure

Book:I Leap Over The Wall - Contrasts And Impressions After Twenty-Eight Years In A Convent

Source: I Leap Over The Wall - Contrasts And Impressions After Twenty-Eight Years In A Convent

“Like all children I had taken my father for granted. Now that I had lost him, I felt an emptiness that could never be filled. But I did not let myself cry, believing as a Muslim that tears pull a spirit earthward and won't let it be free.”

Believe Children Spirit Father Lost Felt Grief Taken Cry Tears Filled Granted Emptiness

Book:Daughter of Destiny: An Autobiography

Source: Daughter of Destiny: An Autobiography

“I've taken up the Bible again, somewhat in the spirit of W.C. Fields - looking for loopholes.”

Spirit Belief Taken Fields Superstitions Loopholes

Author:David Niven

“If young gentlemen get from their years in college only manliness, esprit de corps, a release of their social gifts, a training ingive and take, a catholic taste in men and the standards of true sportsmen, they have gained much but they have not gained what a college should give them. It should give them insight into the things of the mind and the spiritthe consciousness of having taken on them the vows of true enlightenment and of having undergone the discipline, never to be shaken off, of those who seek wisdom in candor, with faithful labor and travail of spirit.”