“Let's begin by affirming that poetry has died.”
Empire of Dreams (prose poetry, 1988)
Source: Ideas have Consequences (1948), p. 19.
“Let's begin by affirming that poetry has died.”
Empire of Dreams (prose poetry, 1988)
Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy (2010)
"The American Dance", in Modern Dance, ed. Virginia Stewart (1945).
“Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.”
Theaetetus, 155d
Plato, Theaetetus
“Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.”
155, The Dialogues of Plato, Volume 3, 1871, p. 377 http://books.google.com/books?id=4kQNAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA377
Theaetetus
Source: In Praise of Philosophy (1963), p. 44
On Charon’s Wharf.
Broken Vessels (1991)
The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), Conclusion : Don Quixote in the Contemporary European Tragi-Comedy
Indian Spirituality and Life (1919)
Context: To the Indian mind the least important part of religion is its dogma; the religious spirit matters, not the theological credo. On the contrary to the Western mind a fixed intellectual belief is the most important part of a cult; it is its core of meaning, it is the thing that distinguishes it from others. For it is its formulated beliefs that make it either a true or a false religion, according as it agrees or does not agree with the credo of its critic. This notion, however foolish and shallow, is a necessary consequence of the Western idea which falsely supposes that intellectual truth is the highest verity and, even, that there is no other. The Indian religious thinker knows that all the highest eternal verities are truths of the spirit. The supreme truths are neither the rigid conclusions of logical reasoning nor the affirmations of credal statement, but fruits of the soul's inner experience. Intellectual truth is only one of the doors to the outer precincts of the temple. And since intellectual truth turned towards the Infinite must be in its very nature many-sided and not narrowly one, the most varying intellectual beliefs can be equally true because they mirror different facets of the Infinite. However separated by intellectual distance, they still form so many side-entrances which admit the mind to some faint ray from a supreme Light. There are no true and false religions, but rather all religions are true in their own way and degree. Each is one of the thousand paths to the One Eternal.