Images of God
Context: There is obviously a place in life for a religious attitude for awe and astonishment at existence. That is also a basis for respect for existence. We don’t have much of it in this culture, even though we call it materialistic. In this culture we call materialistic, today we are of course bent on the total destruction of material and its conversion into junk and poisonous gases. This is of course not a materialistic culture because it has no respect for material. And respect is in turn based on wonder.
Source: New Testament and Mythology and Other Basic Writings (1941), p. 10
Source: 1970s, Organizational Analysis: A Sociological View, 1970, p. 4
Go Rin No Sho (1645), The Water Book
Signs, trans. R. McCleary (Evanston: 1964), p. 203
“Yoga takes you into the present moment, the only place where life exists.”
Patanjali, in "Being Consciousness Bliss: A Seeker's Guide", p. 205.
Source: The Law (1850)
Context: Life, faculties, production — in other words, individuality, liberty, property — this is man. And in spite of the cunning of artful political leaders, these three gifts from God precede all human legislation, and are superior to it. Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.
The Nature and Destiny of Man: A Christian Interpretation (1941)
Context: Human existence is obviously distinguished from animal life by its qualified participation in creation. Within limits it breaks the forms of nature and creates new configurations of vitality. Its transcendence over natural process offers it the opportunity of interfering with the established forms and unities of vitality as nature knows them.
“For a writer, only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.”
