Bertrand Russell Quotes About Mysticism
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It is only in marriage with the world that our ideals can bear fruit; divorced from it, they remain barren.
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Mysticism is, in essence, little more than a certain intensity and depth of feeling in regard to what is believed about the universe.
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Children, after being limbs of Satan in traditional theology and mystically illuminated angels in the minds of educational reformers, have reverted to being little devils; not theological demons inspired by the evil one, but scientific Freudian abominations inspired by the unconscious.
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Real life is, to most men, a long second best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible.
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