Efficiency: Its Spiritual Source

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Platt & Peck, 1911 - 107 pages
 

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Page 4 - Undoubtedly we have no questions to ask which are unanswerable. We must trust the perfection of the creation so far as to believe that whatever curiosity the order of things has awakened in our minds, the order of things can satisfy.
Page 29 - Do you think so?' 'Think so! — There's night and day, brother, both sweet things; sun, moon, and stars, brother, all sweet things; there's likewise a wind on the heath. Life is very sweet, brother; who would wish to die?
Page 45 - Tell me, Euthydemus, have you ever gone to Delphi?" "Yes, twice," replied he. "And did you observe what is written somewhere on the temple wall, KNOW THYSELF?" "I did." "And did you take no thought of that inscription, or did you attend to it, and try to examine yourself, to ascertain what sort of character you are?" "I did not indeed try, for I thought that I knew very well already, since I should hardly know anything else if I did not know myself.
Page 4 - Belief I define to be the healthy act of a man's mind. It is a mysterious indescribable process, that of getting to believe ; — indescribable, as all vital acts are. We have our mind given us, not that k may cavil and argue, but that it may see into something, give us clear belief and understanding about something, whereon we are then to proceed to act.
Page 57 - The Hero is he who lives in the inward sphere of things, in the True, Divine and Eternal, which exists always, unseen to most, under the Temporary, Trivial: his being is in that; he declares that abroad, by act or speech as it may be, in declaring himself abroad.
Page 26 - This is the prettiest low-born lass that ever Ran on the green-sward : nothing she does or seems But smacks of something greater than herself, Too noble for this place.
Page 29 - "You talk like a gorgio — which is the same as talking like a fool — were you a Rommany chal you would talk wiser. Wish to die, indeed ! A Rommany chal would wish to live forever!" "In sickness, Jasper?" " There's the sun and stars, brother.
Page 67 - There is nothing more true in connection with human life than that we grow into the likeness of those things we contemplate. Literally and scientifically and necessarily true is it that, " as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he." The " is" part is his character. His character is the sum total of his habits. His habits have been formed by his conscious acts ; but every conscious act is, as we have found, preceded by a thought. And so we have it — thought on the one hand, character, life, destiny...
Page 5 - ... the new ruler of the immortals devised against me. Alas! alas! I sigh over the present suffering, and that which is coming on. How, where must a termination of these toils arise ? And yet what is it I am saying? I know beforehand all futurity exactly, and no suffering will come upon me unlooked-for. But I needs must bear my doom as easily as may be, knowing as I do, that the might of Necessity cannot be resisted.
Page 102 - When there were no depths, I was brought forth . . . when he prepared the Heavens, I was there...

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