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Foreign students often chose them as the subject for theses, but those who sought to detect cosmic significance in Mr. Pinfold’s work, to relate it to fashions in philosophy, social predicaments or psychological tensions, were baffled by
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“Part of the horror of his dream-experience is that he is trapped in a state of fear so deep-rooted as to have become an identity, which makes him from the beginning as unattractive to the other figures in his dream as they are to him.”
― Medieval Dream-Poetry
― Medieval Dream-Poetry
“The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a God or not. The atheist is a religious person. He believes in atheism as though it were a new religion.”
― The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
― The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
“The direction of escape is toward freedom. So what is ‘escapism’ an accusation of?”
― No Time To Spare: Thinking About What Matters
― No Time To Spare: Thinking About What Matters
“In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.”
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“Dream enables one to see more deeply into reality than one can in waking life; it is a form of intuition which, far from escaping from reality, lays bare its deeper structure.”
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