Three Modern Seers: James Hinton, Nietzsche, Edward Carpenter

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M. Kennerley, 1910 - 227 pàgines
 

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Pàgina 117 - Now was I come up in spirit through the flaming sword into the paradise of God. All things were new, and all the creation gave another smell unto me than before, beyond what words can utter.
Pàgina 158 - What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal : what is lovable in man is that he is an over-going and a down-going.
Pàgina 117 - One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake. No, at noonday in the bustle of man's work-time Greet the unseen with a cheer! Bid him forward, breast and back as either should be, "Strive and thrive!" cry "Speed, — fight on, fare ever There as here!
Pàgina 188 - Spirit is also voluptuousness," — said they. Then broke the wings of their spirit ; and now it creepeth about, and defileth where it gnaweth. Once they thought of becoming heroes ; but sensualists are they now. A trouble and a terror is the hero to them. But by my love and hope I conjure thee : cast not away the hero in thy soul ! Maintain holy thy highest hope ! — Thus spake Zarathustra.
Pàgina 120 - Jesus saith, Let not him who seeks . . . cease until he finds, and when he finds he shall be astonished ; astonished he shall reach the kingdom, and having reached the kingdom he shall rest.
Pàgina 175 - ... the soul — has it not been bestowed through suffering, through the discipline of great suffering ? In man creature and creator are united : in man there is not only matter, shred, excess, clay, mire, folly, chaos ; but there is also the creator, the sculptor, the hardness of the hammer, the divinity of the spectator, and the seventh day — do ye understand this contrast? And that your sympathy for the
Pàgina 207 - For (over and over again) there is nothing that is evil except because a man has not mastery over it; and there is no good thing that is not evil if it have mastery over a man...
Pàgina 175 - The discipline of suffering, of great suffering— know ye not that it is only this discipline that has produced all the elevations of humanity hitherto? The tension of soul in misfortune which communicates to it its energy, its shuddering in view of rack and ruin, its inventiveness and bravery in undergoing, enduring, interpreting, and exploiting misfortune, and whatever depth, mystery, disguise, spirit, artifice, or greatness has been bestowed upon the soul — has it not been bestowed through...
Pàgina 223 - When thy body — as needs must happen at times — is carried along on the wind of passion, say not thou, 'I desire this or that'; "For the 'I' neither desires nor fears anything, but is free and in everlasting glory, dwelling in heaven and pouring out joy like the sun on all sides. "Let not that precious thing by any confusion be drawn down and entangled in the world of opposites, and of Death and suffering. "For as a light-house beam sweeps with incredible speed over sea and land, yet the lamp...
Pàgina 223 - So while thy body of desire is (and must be by the law of its nature) incessantly in motion in the world of suffering, the T high up above is fixed in heaven. "Therefore I say let no confusion cloud thy mind about this matter; "But ever when desire knocks at thy door, "Though thou grant it admission and entreat it hospitably — as in duty bound — "Fence it yet gently off from thy true self, "Lest it should tear and rend thee.

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