Showing posts with label Madame de Staël. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Madame de Staël. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 4, 2014
Love attracts Love
Guy Finley: When we lose something, even
a loving relationship that was special to us, the pain of our loss is not in
the fact that the person, position, or possession is gone from our life. What we actually lose is...
[continued]
"Perhaps at the
moment the prevailing view is that which declines to separate body and mind in
the way to which we have become accustomed since the days of Descartes. Man is something
more than a carcass loosely coupled with a ghost." Professor
Sir Cyril Burt,
Friday, May 30, 2014
Right Thinking.
"Search for the Truth is the noblest occupation of
man. Its publication is a duty." Madame
de Staël
As words are living things they always objectify. When the undesirable comes into our existence it shows us that we have been doing some wrong thinking. Fanny Louise Middleton Harley - 1895
Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël-Holstein ( 1766 – 1817 ), commonly known as Madame de Staël, was a French woman of letters of
Swiss origin whose lifetime overlapped with the events of the French Revolution
and the Napoleonic era. She was one of Napoleon's principal opponents.
Celebrated for her conversational eloquence, she participated actively in the
political and intellectual life of her times. Her works, both critical and
fictional, made their mark on the history of European Romanticism.
“Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.”
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