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Eccles, Henry E.

The enormous power of nuclear wapons makes the social-political-economic consequences of their employment utterly unpredictable other than by the general term, catastrophic.  This power, this unpredictability, therefore, gives an inherent contradiction and paradox to any discussion of the actual use of nuclear weapons.

Military Power in a Free Society (PK067, Naval War College, 1979), p. v.

CATASTROPHES; NUCLEAR WAR; NUCLEAR WEAPONS CONSEQUENCES; NUCLEAR WEAPONS - USE; PARADOXES

19860808

Thus, we in the United States by our political and moral philosophy are committed to the ferment of freedom.

Military Power in a Free Society (PK067, Naval War College, 1979), p. 19.

FERMENT OF FREEDOM; FREEDOM; POLITICAL IDEALS; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

19860815

Those who find it relatively easy to destroy a government—a negative action—very seldom have the ability to organize and operate an effective and equitable government—a positive action.

Military Power in a Free Society (PK067, Naval War College, 1979), p. 22.

GOVERNMENT; REVOLUTIONARIES

19860815

Discipline is self-control and in its deepest sense involves:  a sense of values; the knowledge of cause and effect; the willingness to make decisions; and very importantly, the willingness to accept personal responsibility for the results of such decisions.

Military Power in a Free Society (PK067, Naval War College, 1979), p. 35.

CAUSE & EFFECT; DECISION-MAKING; DISCIPLINE; RESPONSIBILITY; SELF-CONTROL

19860815

This is particularly important because a strategy that is contrary to the sense of values of the people of the nation should not be expected to succeed.  This was clear in the 1967-68 collapse of U.S. strategy in Vietnam.

Military Power in a Free Society (PK067, Naval War College, 1979), p. 71.

STRATEGY; VALUES, NATIONAL; VIETNAM WAR; WARS

19860820

The poised powerful man does not make threats.

Military Power in a Free Society (PK067, Naval War College, 1979), p. 113.

POISE; POWERFUL MEN; THREATS

19860823

Eccles, Henry E., continued:

In a free society, the media representatives should keep continuous pressure on government authorities, seeking to gain as much information as possible.  What constitutes "news" is a matter for the press to decide—not the source!

Military Power in a Free Society (PK067, Naval War College, 1979), p. 150.

GOVERNMENTS; INFORMATION; MEDIA, THE; NEWS - DEFINITIONS

19860824

Successful political leadership in a free society requires the ability to define the central issues and present them in such simple terms that people of good will and average intellligence can recognize the merit of the proposals one makes.

Military Power in a Free Society (PK067, Naval War College, 1979), p. 235.

GOVERNMENT; FREE SOCIETIES; LEADERSHIP, POLITICAL

19860908

Strategic purposes are attained by use of positive means, by the positive elements of power.  Nuclear deterrence is a necessary but negative form of power.  All it can do is provide a shield to allow time for the positive factors to operate.  Resources are always limited.  The more resources one expends on the negative elements, the less the resources that are available for the positive elements of power.

Military Power in a Free Society (PK067, Naval War College, 1979), p. 236.

NUCLEAR DETERRENCE; POWER; RESOURCES; STRATEGY

19860908

The free societies' greatest hope lies in the concept that the ferment of freedom creates a strength and resiliency whose endurance despite turmoil defies logic and confounds the pessimists.

Military Power in a Free Society (PK067, Naval War College, 1979), p. 240.

FREEDOM - ENDURANCE

19860908

Eckhart, Johannes (Meister). (1260-1327)

Even today, one seldoms hears of people achieving great things without first making mistakes..

"Talks of Instruction #12", Meister Eckhart (PP221, Harper 1941), p. 18.

SUCCESS; MISTAKES

19990411

For let a man go away or come back:  God never leaves.  He is always at hand and if he cannot get into your life, still he is never farther away than the door.

"Talks of Instruction #17", Meister Eckhart (PP221, Harper, 1941), p. 23.

GOD'S NEARNESS

19990718

A man may go into one field and say his prayer and be aware of God, or he may be in Church and be aware of God, but if he is more aware of Him because he is in a quiet place, that is his own deficiency and not due to God.... He knows God rightly who knows him everywhere.

In:  Short, Robert L.  The Parables of Peanuts. (PG252, Fawcett, 1970), p. 8.

EXPERIENCE, SPIRITUAL; GOD - IMMANENCE; GOD'S NEARNESS; PRAYERS; QUIET

19740000

Eco, Umberto.

He is, or has been, in many ways a great man. But for this very reason he is odd. It is only petty men who seem normal.

Spoken by "William of Baskerville" in The Name of the Rose (PK286, 1983), p. 65.

GREATNESS; ODDITY; NORMALCY; PETTINESS

19930906

Economist, The, (editor.)

Like most human follies, military coups sound good at the time; and always fail.

Editor.  "Not Uniformly Bad," The Economist (February 10, 2007), p. 14.

COUP D'ETATS - MILITARY; FAILURES; FOLLIES; MILITARY

20070212

Edge, Findley.

I believe that the gospel demands an emphasis on both evangelism and social action.  The church that neglects either emphasis demonstrates a serious misunderstanding as to the nature of the gospel.

The Greening of the Church. ( , ), p. 52.

EVANGELISM; GOSPEL; SOCIAL CONCERNS

19750000?

Edwards, Owen.

But [National Museum of American History curator Harry] Rubenstein points out that because the compass has taken on a symbolic importance far beyond its actual usefulness, "it is one of the treasures of our collection."

Rubenstein, Harry, partly quoted, partly paraphrased,

By: Edwards, Owen. "Useful Gadget,"

In:  Smithsonian. (October, 2003), p. 26.

COMPASSES; LEWIS & CLARK EXPEDITION; SYMBOLS

20030925

Eighmy, John Lee.

Social opinion [of the Southern Baptist Convention] qualified by consideration of a large constituency's tolerances should be examined in terms quite different from those applied to papal decrees or policy statements from the National Council of Churches.  Churchmen and social historians who hope to understand the interrelationships of religion and culture would do well to consider Southern Baptist social thought not as a variant in Protestant behavior so much as a norm that approximates the social consciousness of most white, middle-class, church-going Americans.

Churches in Cultural Captivity, (HG201, ), pp. xii-xiii.

AMERICANS - ATTITUDES; ROMAN CATHOLICISM; NATIONAL COUNCIL OF CHURCHES; PROTESTANTS; SOCIAL ATTITUDES; SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION

19770200

Eilenberger, Gert.

Our feeling for beauty is inspired by the harmonious arrangement of order and disorder as it occurs in natural objects—in clouds, trees, mountain ranges, or snow crystals.  The shapes of all these are dynamical processes jelled into physical forms, and particular combinations of order and disorder are typical for them.

"Freedom, Science, and Aestheticism."  Schönheit in Chaos, p. 35.

In:  Gleick, James.  Chaos.  (HR170, Scientific American, 2004) P. 117.

BEAUTY; CHAOS; HARMONY; NATURE; ORDER; PROCESSES

20070509

Einstein, Albert.

Religion without science is blind.  Science without religion is lame.

In:  Davies, Paul.  God and the New Physics.  (PK263, , ), p. ii.

BLINDNESS; LAMENESS; RELIGION - LIMITATIONS; SCIENCE - LIMITATIONS

19850401

You may believe that smoking is bad for your health and nevertheless be a heavy smoker.  And this holds true for all evil impulses that poison life.  I do not need to emphasize my respect and appreciation for every possible effort in the direction of truth and knowledge.  But I do not believe that the lack of moral and aesthetic values can be counterbalanced by purely intellectual effort.

Einstein on Peace.  P. 556;

In:  Short, Robert L.  The Parables of Peanuts.  (PG252, Fawcett, 1968), p. 85.

BELIEFS; AESTHETICS; INTELLECT; KNOWLEDGE; MORALITY; SMOKING; TRUTH; VALUES

19770000

Eliade, Mircea.

While yet a very young man, I realized that no matter how captivated I might be by oriental studies and the history of religions, I should never be able to give up literature.  For me, the writing of fiction—sketches, novellas, novels—was more than a "violen d'Ingres"; it was my only means of preserving my mental health, of avoiding neurosis.

"Preface to the English Edition,"

The Forbidden Forest, (FIUL, University of Notre Dame Press, 1978 ), p. v.

LITERATURE; MENTAL HEALTH; NEUROSES; WRITING

19850910

Eliade, Mircea, continued:

For—as this mythological fragment seems to show—death is often only the result of our indifference to immortality.

(Reference to Parsifal)

Images and Symbols.  (PP360, Princeton UP, 1991 ), p. 56.

DEATH; IMMORTALITY; PARSIFAL

20050710

Eliade, Mircea, continued:

A myth always narrates something as having really happened, as an event that took place, in the plain sense of that term—whether it deals with the creation of the World, or of the most insignificant animal or vegetable species, or of an institution.... For the act of coming to be is, at the same time, the emergence of a reality and the disclosure of its fundamental structures.... Myths reveal the structure of reality, and the multiple modelities of being in the world.  That is why they are the exemplary models of human behavior; they disclose the true stories, concern themselves with the realities.

Myths, Dreams and Mysteries, (PG31, Harper Torchbook, 1967), p. 15.

CREATION MYTHS; MODELS; MYTHS - DEFINITIONS; REALITY

19750000

When no longer assumed to be a revelation of the "mysteries" the myth becomes "decadent," obscured; it turns into a tale or legend.

Myths, Dreams and Mysteries, (PG31, Harper Torchbook, 1967), p. 16.

LEGENDS; MYSTERIES; MYTHS; REVELATIONS; TALES

19750000

This is not to say that religion can be reduced to its irrational components, but simply that one recognises the religious experience for what it is—an experience of existence in its totality, which reveals to a man his own mode of being in the World.

Myths, Dreams and Mysteries, (PG31, Harper Torchbook, 1967), p. 17.

BEING, EXISTENCE; HOLISM; IRRATIONAL, THE; RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE

19750000

Eliade, Mircea., continued:

Modern man's originality, his newness in comparison with traditional societies, lies precisely in his determination to regard himself as a purely historical being, in his wish to live in a basically desacralized cosmos.  To what extent modern man has suceeded in realizing his ideal is another problem.... But the fact remains that his ideal no longer has anything in common with the Christian message, and that it is equally foreign to the image of himself conceived by the man of the traditional societies.

Rites and Symbols of Initiation, (FIUL, Harper & Row, 1965, 1958), p. ix.

CHRISTIANITY; HISTORICITY; MAN, MODERN; SACRED, THE; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIETIES, TRADITIONAL

20040127

Initiatory death is indispensible for the beginning of spiritual life.

Rites and Symbols of Initiation, (FIUL, Harper & Row, 1965, 1958), p. xiv.

DEATH; INITIATIONS; SPIRITUAL LIFE

20040127

In modern terms we could say that initiation puts an end to the natural man and introduces the novice to culture.

Rites and Symbols of Initiation, (FIUL, Harper & Row, 1965, 1958), p. xv.

CULTURE; INITIATIONS; NATURE

20040127

Eliade, Mircea., continued:

Nothing can take the place of the example, the concrete fact.

The Sacred and the Profane, (PL076, Harcourt Brace, 1959), p. 15.

EXAMPLES; FACTS

19850725

The revelation brought by the faith did not destroy the pre-Christian meanings of symbols; it simply added a new value to them.  True enough, for the believer this new meaning eclipsed all the others; it alone valorized the symbol, transfigured it into revelation.

The Sacred and the Profane, (PL076, Harcourt Brace, 1959), p. 137.

CHRISTIANITY - IMAGERY;MYTHS; REVELATIONS; SYMBOLS; VALUES

19850731

Symbols awaken individual experience and transmute it into a spiritual act, into metaphysical comprehension of the world.

The Sacred and the Profane, (PL076, Harcourt Brace, 1959), p. 211.

EXPERIENCE; SPIRITUAL ACTIONS; SYMBOLS

19850800

Eliot, T.S.

[Christians] shall certainly continute to read the best...of what our time provides, but we must tirelessly criticize it according to our own principles, not merely according to the principles admitted by the writers and by the critics who discuss it in the public press.

Quoted in:  (PB252), p.24.

CHRISTIANS AND LITERATURE; LITERARY CRITICISM

197?????

Every vital development in language is a development of feeling as well.

Philip Massinger,

In:  DiGaetani, John L., et al.  Writing Out Loud. (FIUL, Dow Jones-Irwin, 1983), p. 137.

CHANGES; EMOTIONS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT

19870526

The poetry of a people takes its life from the people's speech and in turn gives life to it; and represents its highest point of consciousness, its greatest power and its most delicate sensibility.

The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism.  (FIUGL, Faber & Faber, 1964, 1933), p. 15.

CONSCIOUSNESS; LANGUAGE; PEOPLES; POETRY - DEFINITIONS; SENSIBILITIES

20050705

Ellis, E. Earle.

For John it is the historical / character of the event that gives meaning and substance to his theological interpretation.  This is the essence of his affirmation that the Word of God became incarnate in Jesus of Nazareth.

The World of St. John (PH020, 1965), p. 52.

GOSPELS - DEFINITIONS; JESUS CHRIST -INTERPRETATIONS; RESURRECTION - JESUS CHRIST

20021018

Only in the light of the resurrection of Jesus did His disciples discern the true meaing of His acts and teachings (cf. 2:22).  Only then were they able to interpret with clarity the intention of Jesus.  John's gospel is one such interpretation.

The World of St. John (PH020, 1965), p. 58.

GOSPELS - DEFINITIONS; JESUS CHRIST -INTERPRETATIONS; RESURRECTION - JESUS CHRIST

20021016

God's Word which created the world and spoke through the prophets has now become flesh in Jesus Christ (1:14).  Therefore, the meaning of the / ancient prophecies and the meaning of creation itself find their fulfillment in Jesus.

The World of St. John (PH020, 1965), pp. 58-9.

CREATION; GOD'S WORD; JESUS CHRIST; LOGOS; PROPHETS, JEWISH

20021016

The unique pre-eminence of Jesus is twofold:  He is Redeemer and Revealer.

The World of St. John (PH020, 1965), p. 59.

JESUS CHRIST -SIGNIFICANCE

20021016

Elsheimer, Janice.

Our gifts [talents] are not from God to us, but from God through us to the world.

The Creative Call.  (PQ468, Shaw, 2001), p. 3.

GIFTS, SPIRITUAL; TALENTS

20060519

L'Engle, Madeleine.

Lead on, moron," Calvin cried gaily. "I've never even seen your house, and I have the funniest feeling that for the first time in my life I'm going home!"

A Wrinkle in Time (PM069, 1962), p. 37.

HOME; HOUSES

199012

Escher, M. C.

A generally recognized and applied rule or custom does not need to be esthetically [sic] justified, but according to my point of view logic and esthetics cannot be in conflict with one another.

"White-Gray-Black", Escher on Escher (PP124 1989, 1951), p. 18.

THEORY & PRACTICE; LOGIC; AESTHETICS

19930820

Estlingr, Ralph.

It is not anti-science to remind scientists that they too are mortal.  Or, at the very least, their arguments to the contrary are subject to the rules of logic.

"The Principle of Inverse Irreversibility",

New Scientist 96:810 (December 1982) p. 810.

LIMITATIONS; LOGIC; SCIENTISTS

20050404

Evans, C. Stephen.

When theology is used primarily to decide who belongs to our group and who does not, rather than to energize our corporate lives as followers of Jesus, then theology begets the error of Christendom, for, at bottom, Christendom is just taking your faith for granted.  How easy it is to take your faith for granted when you know you are right on all the intellectual issues!

"A Misunderstood Reformer", Christianity Today (Sept. 24, 1984), p. 29.

CHRISTENDOM; CREEDS; THEOLOGICAL ERRORS; THEOLOGY

19840928

Evening, Margaret.

Fulfillment has to do with filling life full with rich and rewarding experiences, making the most of every opportunity that comes our / way and finding joy in all the creative outlets that are open to us.

Who Walk Alone.  (PG243, IVP, 1974), pp. 15-16.

CREATIVITY; EXPERIENCE; FULFILLMENT - DEFINITIONS; OPPORTUNITIES

20050222

Human responsibility implies freedom of choice.  For some people the choice is diminished because their freedom is limited, but in all our actions there is some element of choice, however small.... Maturity implies accepting responsibility.

Who Walk Alone.  (PG243, IVP, 1974), p. 61.

CHOICES; FREEDOM; LIMITATIONS; MATURITY; RESPONSIBILITIES

20050319

More than that, we need to remember that the people we most easily deceive are, of course, ourselves.

Who Walk Alone.  (PG243, IVP, 1974), p. 103.

DECEPTIONS; SELF DECEPTIONS

20050327

We need children to bring us back from our sophistication to the real values of life....When we have grown so used to the good things of life that we take them all for granted, it is lovely to see the joy registering on the face of a child as he sees them for the first time.

Who Walk Alone.  (PG243, IVP, 1974), p. 147.

CHILDREN; JOY; SOPHISTICATION; VALUES

20050416

The idea that an adult should never weep in front of a child is nonsense.  They can cope more readily with tears than many grownups can.

Who Walk Alone.  (PG243, IVP, 1974), p. 148.

ADULTS; CHILDREN; COPING; EMOTIONS; TEARS; WEEPING & CRYING

20050416

Eyck, Aldo Van.

Whatever space and time mean, place and occasion mean more.  For space in the image of man is place, and time in the image of man is occasion.

1962.

Quoted without reference in:  Lawson, Bryan.  The Language of Space.  (FIUGL, Architectural Press, 2001), pp. 23, 128, & 230.

MAN; OCCASIONS; PLACE OR PLACES; SPACE OR SPACES; TIME [CHRONOS]

20080430

Ezra, (Aprocryphal writings.)

Let the human race lament, and the wild beasts rejoice; let all who are born lament, but the four-footed creatures and the cattle be glad.  For they are much better off than we, for they do not look for judgment, and they do not know of any torment or salvation promised to them after death.

II Esdras 7:[65-67],

In:  Goodspeed, Edgar J., ed.  The Complete Bible. (HI105, UChicago, ).

BEASTS; COWS; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; LIFE AFTER DEATH; SALVATION; TORMENT

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