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Letter "M" » mystical
«We follow the mystics. They know where they are going. They, too, go astray, but when they go astray they do so in a way that is mystical, dark, and mysterious.»
«This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.»
«The mystical is not how the world is, but that it is»
Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein
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mystical
«The mystical trend of our time, which shows itself particularly in the rampant growth of the so-called Theosophy and Spiritualism, is for me no more than a symptom of weakness and confusion. Since our inner experiences consist of reproductions, and c»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
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Experience
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«The mystical bond of brotherhood makes all men brothers»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
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Brotherhood
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bond, brotherhood, mystical
«When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with such applause in the lecture room, how soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick; Till rising and gliding out, I wandered off by myself, in the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time, looked up in perfect silence at the stars.»
Author: Walt Whitman
(Poet)
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«The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
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criticisms, crushed, faculties, mystical, sober, stimulate, sway, unquestionably
«The further limits of our being plunge, it seems to me, into an altogether other dimension of existence from the sensible and merely ''understandable'' world. Name it the mystical region, or the supernatural region, whichever you choose. So far as our ideal impulses originate in this region (and most of them do originate in it, for we find them possessing us in a way for which we cannot articulately account), we belong to it in a more intimate sense than that in which we belong to the visible world, for we belong in the most intimate sense wherever our ideals belong.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
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«The mystical life is the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write. . . .»
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