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mystic
«There is a magic in that little world, home; it is a mystic circle that surrounds comforts and virtues never known beyond its hallowed limits»
«Popular culture is the new Babylon, into which so much art and intellect now flow. It is our imperial sex theater, supreme temple of the western eye. We live in the age of idols. The pagan past, never dead, flames again in our mystic hierarchies of stardom.»
Author: Camille Paglia
| Keywords:
Babylon, flames, flow, hierarchies, hierarchy of, idols, imperial, mystic, mystics, pagan, pagans, popular, popular culture, temple, Temple of, theater, The Imperial, The Western, Western, westerns
«People came up: 'I thought you were 6 ft tall.' I'm average height - 5 ft 8 ins, skinny blonde. One guy says to me 'So, where's the fox from Mystic Pizza?'»
«Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight.»
Author: Milan Kundera
(Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
all the way, exaggeration, go together, mystic, mysticism, ridicule
«The greatest religious problem today is how to be both a mystic and a militant; in other words how to combine the search for an expansion of inner awareness with effective social action, and how to feel one's true identity in both»
Author: Ursula K. LeGuin
(Writer)
| About:
Problems,
Religion
| Keywords:
combine, expansion, identity, in other words, militant, mystic, social action, The Search
«Punctuality is a quality the need of which is bound up with social co-operation. It has nothing to do with the relation of the soul to God, or with mystic insight, or with any of the matters with which the more elevated and spiritual moralists are co»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Punctuality
| Keywords:
bound up, co, elevated, insight, moralist, moralists, mystic, operation, social relations
«RICE-WATER, n. A mystic beverage secretly used by our most popular novelists and poets to regulate the imagination and narcotize the conscience. It is said to be rich in both obtundite and lethargine, and is brewed in a midnight fog by a fat which of the Dismal Swamp.»
«The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
are, capable, emotion, finest, mystic, mystics, The Finest
«The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. Anyone to whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear is a dead man. To know t»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
alien, Dead Man, finest, fine art, fine arts, germ, germs, herein, man of science, mystic, mystics, T, The Finest, The Germ, wonderment
«Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham.»
Author: Joseph Conrad
| Keywords:
detached, detaching, eyed, informed, mystic, open-eyed, resignation, sham, shams
