Prologue p. 6
The Sabbath (1951)
54
The Zürau Aphorisms (1917 - 1918)
Context: There is nothing besides a spiritual world; what we call the world of the senses is the Evil in the spiritual world, and what we call Evil is only the necessity of a moment in our eternal evolution.
One can disintegrate the world by means of very strong light. For weak eyes the world becomes solid, for still weaker eyes it seems to develop fists, for eyes weaker still it becomes shamefaced and smashes anyone who dares to gaze upon it.
The Great Indian Novel (1989)
Source: Debt: The First 5,000 Years (2011), Chapter Twelve, "1971–The Beginning…", p. 383
“The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.”
Telegram to President John F. Kennedy (16 June 1963)
Context: We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
Source: The Limits of Evolution, and Other Essays, Illustrating the Metaphysical Theory of Personal Ideaalism (1905), The Harmony of Determinism and Freedom, p.374
“The laws of economic life are subject to the eternal laws of spiritual capital.”
Source: Doing Virtuous Business (Thomas Nelson, 2011), p. 36.
On the potential failure of writing in “James McBride: How I Write” https://www.writermag.com/writing-inspiration/author-interviews/james-mcbride-write/ in The Writer (2013 Dec 30)
Source: The Boy Crisis (2018), pp. 46
“The equation of motion holds at all times, it is in this sense eternal”
Physics and Philosophy (1958)
Context: The equation of motion holds at all times, it is in this sense eternal, whereas the geometrical forms, like the orbits, are changing. Therefore, the mathematical forms that represent the elementary particles will be solutions of some eternal law of motion for matter. Actually this is a problem which has not yet been solved.<!-- p. 72
“Brothers, what we do in life, echoes in eternity.”
Gladiator (2000 film)
