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"Another way of judging the value of a prophet's religious experience, therefore, would be to examine the type of manhood that he has created, and the cultural world that has sprung out of the spirit of his message."
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"When he finished, he drank from the cup. Everyone else did too, so I followed suit.And nearly choked to death.It was like fire in liquid form. It took every ounce of strength I had to swallow it and not spray it on those around me."Wh...what is this?" I asked, coughing.Viktoria grinned. "Vodka."I peered at the glass. "No, it isn't. I've had vodka before.""Not Russian vodka."Apparently not."

"As the writer, you're always a presence in the song. If you get close to what human beings are like, you're writing about common experience. We all do much the same things, so if you nail somebody, then you've also nailed yourself."

"I'm in the mood for another Moonstruck experience, for another romantic comedy."

"You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever."

"Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience."

"At least we're getting the kind of experience we need for the next war."

"Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words."

"What happens to you during Life may seem out of your control; how you perceive each experience, however... good or bad... is totally up to you."

"Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them."

"It [discovering Finnish] was like discovering a wine-cellar filled with bottles of amazing wine of a kind and flavour never tasted before. It quite intoxicated me."
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"Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul's contact with the body."

"Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement; and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth of other modes of knowledge."

"It may, however, be said that the level of experience to which concepts are inapplicable cannot yield any knowledge of a universal character, for concepts alone are capable of being socialized."

"But the universe, as a collection of finite things, presents itself as a kind of island situated in a pure vacuity to which time, regarded as a series of mutually exclusive moments, is nothing and does nothing."

"In the first period religious life appears as a form of discipline which the individual or a whole people must accept as an unconditional command without any rational understanding of the ultimate meaning and purpose of that command."

"The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of the ego than the moral health of the social fabric which forms his present environment."

"But the perception of life as an organic unity is a slow achievement, and depends for its growth on a people's entry into the main current of world-events."

"Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions."

"The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable."
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