“War is very uncertain in its results, and often when affairs look most desperate they suddenly assume a more hopeful state.”
Letter to his wife Margaretta (11 June 1863); published in The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade (1913)
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Tertium Organum (1922)
Context: Generally speaking, the significance of the indirect results may very often be of more importance than the significance of direct ones. And since we are able to trace how the energy of love transforms itself into instincts, ideas, creative forces on different planes of life; into symbols of art, song, music, poetry; so can we easily imagine how the same energy may transform itself into a higher order of intuition, into a higher consciousness which will reveal to us a marvelous and mysterious world.
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