“So many things which once had distressed or revolted him — the speeches and pronouncements of the learned, their assertions and their prohibitions, their refusal to allow the universe to move — all seemed to him now merely ridiculous, non-existent, compared with the majestic reality, the flood of energy, which now revealed itself to him: omnipresent, unalterable in its truth, relentless in its development, untouchable in its serenity, maternal and unfailing in its protectiveness.”
― Hymn of the Universe
― Hymn of the Universe
“By virtue of Creation, and still more the Incarnation, nothing here below is profane for those who know how to see.”
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“The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.”
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“Realism arises from the maturity of the minds, while Idealism arises from their conformity.”
― LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
― LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
“He recognized with absolute certainty the empty fragility of even the noblest theorizings as compared with the definitive plenitude of the smallest fact grasped in its total, concrete reality.”
― Hymn of the Universe
― Hymn of the Universe
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