“Organized Christianity has always represented immortality as a sort of common heritage; but I never could see why spiritual life should not be conditioned on the same terms as all life, i. e., correspondence with environment.” ShouldSpiritualTermCommonChristianityEnvironmentImmortalityOrganizedHeritageSpiritual LifeCorrespondence Author:Albert J. Nock
“Internationalism is a community theory of society which is founded on economic, spiritual, and biological facts. It maintains that respect for a healthy development of human society and of world civilization requires that mankind be organized internationally.” WorldHumansFactsSpiritualCommunityEconomicMankindTheoryDevelopmentCivilizationHealthyOrganizedHuman SocietyCommon InterestsInternationalism Author:Christian Lous Lange
“A state, a community, caring first for all its children, providing amply for their spiritual as for their temporal well-being, has organized the primitive Eden.” FirstsWellsChildrenStatesSpiritualCommunityCaringWell BeingOrganizedPrimitiveProvidingEden Book:Table-talk Source: Table-talk
“Conventions which camouflage a man's true feelings are a spiritual lie which help him adapt himself to the organized deviations of society.” MenHelpingFeelingsSpiritualLyingOrganizedConventionsDeviationCamouflageTrue Feelings Author:Maria Montessori
“Organized religion is a very bad way of passing on spiritual values because it becomes so corrupted with political and repressive agendas which don't help anybody to develop their spirituality.” WayHelpingSpiritualPoliticalValuesSpiritualityPassingPassingsOrganizedAgendasOrganized ReligionSpiritual ValuesPassing On Author:Jeanette Winterson
“One is conscious of no brave and noble earnestness in it, of no generalized passion for intellectual and spiritual adventure, of no organized determination to think things out. What is there is a highly self-conscious and insipid correctness, a bloodless respectability submergence of matter in manner--in brief, what is there is the feeble, uninspiring quality of German painting and English music.” ThinkingSelfMatterSpiritualPassionLiteratureQualityPaintingAdventureIntellectualConsciousDeterminationBraveNobleOrganizedSelf ConsciousCorrectnessRespectabilityAmerican LiteratureEarnestnessInsipidUninspiringEnglish Music Book:H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series Source: H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series