“Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.” FactsSpiritualScienceDeathDesireReligionFallPsychologyAtheismDyingStrengthIllusionAtheistAgnosticPsychiatryAtheisticReligion In Society Book:Major Works Source: Major Works
“I believe natural beauty has a necessary place in the spiritual development of any individual or any society. I believe that whenever we substitute something man-made and artificial for a natural feature of the earth, we have retarded some part of man's spiritual growth.” MenBelieveMadeEarthSpiritualScienceIndividualI BelieveGrowthNaturalDevelopmentFeaturesSpiritual GrowthSubstitutesArtificialSpiritual DevelopmentRetarded Book:The house of life: Rachel Carson at work Source: The house of life: Rachel Carson at work
“In the new science of the twenty-first century, not physical force but spiritual force will lead the way. Mental and spiritual gifts will be more in demand than gifts of a physical nature. Extrasensory perception will take precedence over sensory perception. And in this sphere woman will again predominate.” WayFirstsSpiritualScienceForceCenturyDemandPerceptionTwentiesSpheresSensoryPrecedencePhysical ForceSpiritual GiftsSensory Perception Author:Elizabeth Gould Davis
“Natural knowledge, seeking to satisfy natural wants, has found the ideas which can alone still spiritual cravings. I say that natural knowledge, in desiring to ascertain the laws of comfort, has been driven to discover those of conduct, and to lay the foundations of a new morality.” WantHas BeensStillsIdeasSpiritualLawScienceFoundNaturalMoralityComfortFoundationLaysSeekingDrivenCraving Book:Huxley's Autobiography and Essays Source: Huxley's Autobiography and Essays
“For more than twenty-five years my mind had been deeply troubled by the fact that these mechanical and scientific achievements ofman had outrun his intellectual and spiritual power. ...Throughout the Second World War this terrible problem hung in the back of my mind. As I write these words the problem and the danger are as threatening as ever. We hope our nation will survive, but in its effort to survive will it transform itself intellectually and spiritually into the image of the thing against which we fought?” WorldWritingYearsMindWarFactsProblemSpiritualScienceNationsEffortEducationFiveDangerTerribleAchievementIntellectualTwentiesWar Of The WorldsFive YearsHungThreateningTwenty FiveSecond World WarOf My MindAtomic BombSpiritual PowerOutrun Author:Virginia Gildersleeve