Ladd, George Eldon.

Interpreted history may represent more truly the facts of a situation than a mere chronicle of events.

A Theology of the New Testament (HH189, Eerdmans, 1974), p. 221.

CHRONICLES; FACTS; HISTORY; INTERPRETATIONS

19760000

Laing, R.D.

Orientation means to know where the Orient is.

The Politics of Experience. P. 136,

In:  Guinness, Os.  The East, No Exit. P. 6.

ORIENT, THE; ORIENTATION

19740000

The center of reality is where your heart is.

"Cities:  Glasgow,"

Aired:  WPBT, Miami, August 25, 1985.

CENTER OF LIFE; HEARTS; REALITY

19850825

L'Amour, Louis. 

...people believe whatever they read must be true--or it would not be in print.
    Most folks don't stop to think that the writer of a book or the publisher of a newspaper may have his own axe to grind, or he may be influenced by others, or may not be in possession of all the information on the subject of which he writes.

The Daybreakers (PQ162, Bantam, 2000, 1960), p. 125.

BOOKS; FACTS; LIES; NEWSPAPERS; PRINTED MEDIA; TRUST; TRUTH

20021118

It sure does beat all how prosperity makes a man critical of all who are less prosperous.

"The Courting of Griselda,"

in: End of the Drive (PQ178, Bantam, 1998), p. 54.

CONCEIT; CRITICS; PROSPERITY

20030102

The thing to remember when traveling is that the trail is the thing, not the end of the trail.  Travel too fast and you miss all you are traveling for.

Ride the Dark Trail (PQ164, Bantam, 1972), p. 44.

TRAILS; TRAVEL

20030709

To disbelieve is easy; to scoff is simple; to have faith is harder.

To the Far Blue Mountains (PQ145, Bantam, 1977), p. 54.

DISBELIEF; FAITH; SCOFFING

20021031

Men do not like puzzles....  They prefer categories.  It is far easier to slip a piece of information into a known slot than to puzzle over the unknown.

To the Far Blue Mountains (PQ145, Bantam, 1977), p. 158.

CATEGORIES; INFORMATION - CATEGORIZATION; PUZZLES; UNKNOWN, THE

20021103

Landes, David S.

...teaching is the best way to learn anything....

Revolution in Time (PK317, Belknap Pr of Harvard U. Pr, 1983), p. xiv.

EDUCATION; LEARNING; TEACHING

19840714

Lane, Belden.

Metaphorical images can bring us to God, but once we stand face to face with God's imageless glory, we realize the impoverishment of all imagination.

The Solace of Fierce Landscapes (NY:Oxford U. Press, 1998), p. 65,

In:  Crosby, Cindy.  By Willoway Brook (HQ279, Paraclete Pr., 2003), p. 140.

GOD - IMAGERY; IMAGINATION; METAPHORS

20040620

Lawrence, D. H.

But human love without the God-passion always kills the thing it loves.

The Kangaroo,

In:  Killinger, John.  The Fragile Presence (PH094, ), p. 118.

GOD'S LOVE; LOVE; PASSION

19840000

Lawrence, T. E. (Thomas Edward.) 

Youth could win, but had not learned to keep: and was pitiably / weak against age.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom (PK429, Penguin, 1935, 1926, 1922), pp. 22-23.

AGE; EXPERIENCE; INEXPERIENCE; YOUTH

20030518

All men dream: but not equally.  Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.

NOTE:  This most famous quote of Lawrence is only to be found in the original, privately printed edition (1922) of Lawrence's work; it was deleted from all following editions published in T.E. Lawrence's lifetime. 

Seven Pillars of Wisdom (PK429, Penguin, 1935, 1926, 1922), p. 23.

AMBITIONS: DANGERS; DREAMS; SLEEPERS; VISIONARIES

20030518

...for it had seemed to me that discipline, or at least formal discipline, was a virtue of peace: a character or stamp by which to mark off soldiers from complete men, and obliterate the humanity of the individual.... It was a process of the mass, an element of the impersonal crowd, inapplicable to one man, since it involved obedience, a duality of the will.... The drill-instructors tried to make obedience an instinct, a mental reflex, following as instantly on the command as though the motor power of the individual will had been invested together in the system.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom (HM296, Dorset, 1935, 1926), p. 510.

DISCIPLINE, MILITARY; HUMANITY; OBEDIENCE; WILL POWER

19921019

Any protestation of the truth from me was called modesty, self depreciation....It irritated me, this silly confusion of shyness, which was conduct, with modesty, which was a point of view. I was not modest, but ashamed of my awkwardness, of my physical envelope, and of my solitary unlikeness which made me no companion, but an acquaintance, complete, angular, uncomfortable, as a crystal.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom (HM296, Dorset, 1935, 1926), p. 562.

LAWRENCE, T.E.; MODESTY; SHYNESS; SOLITARY MEN

19921022

Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan.

Knowledge is power--and power of one sort or another is the secret lust of human souls....

Uncle Silas (FIUL, The Cresset Pr, 1947), p. 42.

KNOWLEDGE; LUSTS; POWER

19850321

The world is a parable—the habitation of symbols—the phantoms of spiritual things immortal shown in material shape.

Uncle Silas (FIUL, The Cresset Pr, 1947), p. 180.

PARABLES; PHYSICAL WORLD; SPIRITUAL WORLD; SYMBOLS - DEFINITIONS; WORLD, THE

19850317

League of Nations.

Slavery is a status or condition of a person over whom any or all of the powers attaching to the rights of ownership are exercised.

"Article I, Slavery Convention, League of Nations,

In:  Greenidge, C.W.W.  Slavery. (London: s.p., 1958), p. 224.

In:  Finley, M.I.  Ancient Slavery & Modern Ideology (HJ282, Viking Pr., 1980), p. 165, n. 20.

SYMBOLISM - ROOTS; LANDSCAPE PAINTING

19940210

Lee, Robert E.

What a cruel thing is war; to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness / God has granted us in this world; to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of the beautiful world.

In:  Vandegrift, A. A.  Once a Marine.  (PD, Ballantine, 1966), pp. 203-204.

EARTH; FAMILIES; FRIENDS; HAPPINESS; HATE; JOY; LOVE; NEIGHBORS

19840200

Leeming, David

When a myth or a mythological place or character is described in this book, then, there is no intention of implying falsehood or even illusion.  In fact, to go one step further, as understood here, myths are stories that are literally or symbolically true to particular cultures and that contain elements in which outsiders with open minds can find archetypal or universal truth.

"Introduction,"

A Dictionary of Asian Mythology.  (FIUGL, Oxford UP, 2001), p. 3.

ARCHETYPES; CULTURES; MYTHS - DEFINITIONS; SYMBOLISM; TRUTH

20051107

Leeming, David Adams and Leeming, Margaret Adams.

A myth is a narrative projection of a given cultural group's sense of its sacred past and its significent relationship with the deeper powers of the surrounding world and universe....In its complex but revealing symbolism, a myth is to a culture what a dream is to an individual.

Encyclopedia of Creation Myths (FIUGL,ABC-Clio, 1994), p. vii.

CULTURES; COSMOS; DREAMS; INDIVIDUALS; MYTHS; PAST, THE; SYMBOLISM

20050822

Behind the many individual creation myths is a shadow myth that is the world culture's collective dream of differentiation (cosmos) in the face of the original and continually threatening disorder (chaos).

Encyclopedia of Creation Myths (FIUGL,ABC-Clio, 1994), p. viii.

CHAOS; CREATION MYTHS; DIFFERENTIATION; MYTHS; ORDER

20050822

Lefever, Ernest.

Morality is a synonym for responsibility.  Moralism is a conscious or unconscious escape from accountability.

In:  Eccles, Henry E.  Military Power in a Free Society (PK067, Naval War College, 1979), p. 6.

ACCOUNTABILITY; MORALISM - DEFINITIONS; MORALITY - DEFINITIONS; RESPONSIBILITY

19860815

Legrand, Francine-Claire.

But why was the art of landscape painting extended into Symbolism?  It was because of an inherent feeling for the overall simplicity of the world's structure; each element being inseparable from the rest of creation, also at the same time its synthesis.

Symbolism in Belgium (FIUGEN, 1972), p. 192.

SYMBOLISM - ROOTS; LANDSCAPE PAINTING

19940210

Lehane, Brendan.

In the words of Jesus there was indeed mysticism and paradox enough to keep the East in ferment for hundreds of years.  The important point, though, was that the problems were expressible in words, and not only in strange symbols and occult ritual.  When the minds of the West took Christianity to themselves they found logic and system to satisfy their Roman outlook, and an optional overlay of mystery to keep them interested and respectful.

Early Celtic Christianity (HO152, Barnes & Noble, 1993; 1968), p. 19.

CHRISTIANITY; JESUS THE CHRIST - MESSAGE; LOGIC; MYSTERY; MYSTICISM; ORIENT, THE; PARADOXES; RITUALS; ROMANS; SYMBOLS; SYSTEMS; WORDS

20050219

And in part it came from Britain, which curls around the east coast of Ireland like a mother nursing her child.  To the great annoyance of the Irish, Britain has often tried to fulfill her geographical role.  To their greater annoyance she has sometimes succeeded.

Early Celtic Christianity (HO152, Barnes & Noble, 1993; 1968), p. 23.

BRITAIN; CHILDREN; IRELAND; MOTHERS

20050219

If much of St Brendan is a myth, it is a myth created by those who knew what they wanted to tell, and chose the best method for telling that they could.  The myth becomes the age that gave rise to it.

Early Celtic Christianity (HO152, Barnes & Noble, 1993; 1968), p. 53.

AGES - REPRESENTATIONS; BRENDAN, ST.; MYTHS; STORY TELLING

20050227

Kings, however, should always be suspect patrons of the Church.  There is, for them, an attraction in alliance with heaven sometimes greater than earthly liaisons.  In return for their support, however, they often demand what is not compatible with the Church's commission.

Early Celtic Christianity (HO152, Barnes & Noble, 1993; 1968), p. 155.

ALLIANCES; CHURCH, THE; CHURCH & STATE; GREAT COMMISSION, THE; KINGS; PATRONS & PATRONAGE; POLITICIANS

20050309

When men became cheap, morals became cheap, too.

Early Celtic Christianity (HO152, Barnes & Noble, 1993; 1968), p. 161.

LIFE, THE VALUE OF; MEN; MORALITY; VALUES

20050309

Levi-Strauss, Claude.

To speak of rules and to speak of meaing is to speak of the same thing; and if we look at all the intellectual undertakings of mankind, as far as they have been recorded all over the world, the common denominator is always to introduce some / kind of order.  If this represents a basic need for order in the human mind and since, after all, the human mind is only part of the universe, the need exists because there is some order in the universe and the universe is not a chaos.

Myth and Meaning (PJxxx, ), pp. 12-13.

CHAOS; MEANING; ORDER; RULES; UNIVERSE

19801214

In order for a culture to be really itself and to produce something, the culture and its members must be convinced of the originality and even, to some extent, of their superiority over the others;.... We are now threatened with the prospect of our being only consumers, able to consume anything from any point in the world and from every culture, but of losing all originiality.

Myth and Meaning (PJxxx, ), p. 20.

CONSUMERS; CULTURE; ORIGINALITY; SUPERIORITY; WESTERN CULTURE

19810117

Levine, Irving.

The Communist Party has been described as a tightly disciplined civilian army, a dedicated secular priesthood.

Mainstreet U.S.S.R. (PD008, Signet, 1960), p. 21.

ARMIES; COMMUNIST PARTY - DESCRIPTIONS; PRIESTHOOD

20030124

Levitt, Theodore.

Data are not information. Information is not meaning. Just as data require processing to become informational, so information requires processing to become meaningful.

Thinking About Management. (FIUGEN, Free Press, 1991), p. 6.

DATA; INFORMATION; MEANING

19910224

A person may be appointed to high position, but never to leadership.  Leaders are effective via the authority conferred on them by those on whom they depend for results.

Thinking About Management. (FIUGEN, Free Press, 1991), p. 29.

LEADERSHIP - APPOINTMENTS; LEADERSHIP - AUTHORITY; AUTHORITY

19910227

Organizations exist to enable ordinary people to do extraordinary things. To accomplish this end they must routinize their work. Precisely because of that, the purposes for which organizations exist cause organizations to decline in their ability to achieve their purposes.

Thinking About Management. (FIUGEN, Free Press, 1991), p. 64.

ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATIONS; ROUTINES; PURPOSES

19910313

Lewis, C.S.  

... a hard heart is no infallible protection against a soft head.

The Abolition of Man (PH171, Macmillan, 1965), p. 24.

HEARTS, HARD; LOGIC; THINKING POORLY

19801000

...those who write on social matters have not yet learned to imitate the physicists by always including Time among the di/mensions.

The Abolition of Man (PH171, Macmillan, 1965), pp. 69-70.

SOCIAL SCIENCES; TIME

19801000

Human nature will be the last part of Nature to surrender to Man.  The battle will then be won.... The battle will indeed be won.  But who, precisely, will have won it?

The Abolition of Man (PH171, Macmillan, 1965), p. 72.

CONQUESTS; ENVIRONMENT, THE; HUMAN NATURE; NATURE, CONQUEST OF

19801000

If you will not obey the Tao [defined by Lewis as that common sense, tradition, and morality which governs the individuals of a community], or else commit suicide, obedience to impulse (and therefore, in the long run, to mere 'nature') is the only course left open.

The Abolition of Man (PH171, Macmillan, 1964), p. 79.

BEHAVIOR, IMPUTLSIVE; COMMON SENSE; COMMUNITY; NATURE; OBEDIENCE; NIHILISM; SUICIDE; TAO

19801000

You will even find people who write about the sixteenth century as if Magic were a Medieval survival and Science the new thing that came to sweep it away.  Those who have studied the period know better.  There was very little magic in the Middle Ages:  the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries are the high noon of magic.  The serious magical endeavor and the serious scientific endeavor are twins:  one was sickly and died, the other strong and throve.  But they are twins.  They were born of the same impulse.

The Abolition of Man (PH171, Macmillan, 1965), p. 87.

MAGIC - ORIGINS; MIDDLE AGES - MAGIC; SCIENCE - ORIGINS; SEVENTEENTH CENTURY - MAGIC; SIXTEENTH CENTURY - MAGIC

19801000

Is it, then, possible to imagine a new Natural Philosophy, continually conscious that the 'natural object' produced by analysis and abstraction is not really but only a view, and always correcting the abstraction? .../When it explained it would not explain away.  When it spoke of the parts it would remember the whole....In a word, it would conquer Nature without being at the same time conquered by her and buy knowledge at a lower cost that that of life.

The Abolition of Man (PH171, Macmillan, 1965), pp. 89-90.

NATURE; NATURAL PHILOSOPHY; SCIENCE--ALTERNATIVES

19801000

It is no use trying to 'see through' first principles.  If you see through everything, then everything is transparent.  But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world.  To 'see through' all things is the same as not to see.

The Abolition of Man (PH171, Macmillan, 1965), p. 91.

CRITICISM; EXPLAINING AWAY; PRINCIPLES, FIRST

19801000

Lewis, C. S., continued:

...the value of plays and novels becomes for me dependent on the moments when, by whatever artifice, they succeed in expressing the great myths.

Letter to Arthur Greeves, September 5, 1931,

In:  Green, Roger Lancelyn, and Hooper, Walter.  C.S. Lewis: A Biography (PH108, HBJ, 1974), p. 115.

DRAMA; MYTHS; NOVELS

19770000

Lewis, C. S., continued:

When we speak of the Middle Ages as the ages of authority we are usually thinking about the authority of the Church.  But they were the age not only of her authority, but of authorities.

The Discarded Image (FIUL, Cambridge, 1964), p. 5.

AUTHORITIES; AUTHORITY; CHURCH, THE; MIDDLE AGES

19841126

A language has its own personality; it implies an outlook, reveals a mental activity, and has a resonance, not quite the same as those of any other.

The Discarded Image (FIUL, Cambridge, 1964), p. 6.

LANGUAGES; PERSONALITY

19841126

At his most characteristic, medieval man was not a dreamer nor a wanderer.  He was an organiser, a codifier, a builder of systems.  He wanted 'a place for everything and everything in the right place.'...There was nothing which medieval people liked better, or did better, than sorting out and tidying up.  Of all our modern inventions I suspect that they would most have admired the card index.

The Discarded Image (FIUL, Cambridge, 1964), p. 10.

BUILDERS; CARD CATALOGS; INDEXES; MIDDLE AGES - CHARACTERISTICS; ORGANIZATION

19841126

In every period the Model of the Universe which is accepted by the great thinkers helps to provide what we may call a backcloth for the arts.  But this backcloth is highly selective.  It takes over from the total Model only what is intelligible to a layman and only what makes some appeal ot imagination and emotion.

The Discarded Image (FIUL, Cambridge, 1964), p. 14.

COSMOLOGY & THE ARTS; IMAGINATION; LAYMEN; SCIENTIFIC MODELS; UNIVERSE, THE

19841126

Lewis, C. S., continued:

It will not bother me in the hour of my death to reflect that I have been "had for a sucker" by any number of imposters; but it would be a torment to know that one had refused even one person in need.

Letter, Oct. 26, 1962.

in:  (PH216, n.d.), p. 108.

CHARITY

19770600

Lewis, C. S., continued:

A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered.  You are speaking...as if the pleasure were one thing and the memory another.  It is all one thing.... What you call remembering is the last part of the pleasure....

Out of the Silent Planet (PH56,), p. 73.

MEMORIES; PLEASURE

19770000

The love of knowledge is a kind of madness.

Out of the Silent Planet. (PH56, ), p. 55.

KNOWLEDGE, LOVE OF; MADNESSES

19770000

Long since...Ransome had been perceiving that the triple distinction of truth / from myth and both from fact was purely terrestrial--was part and parcel of that unhappy division between soul and body which resulted from the Fall.  Even on earth the sacraments existed as a permanent reminder that the division was neither wholesome nor final.  The Incarnation had been the beginning of its disappearance.

Perelandra. (PH028, ), pp. 143-4.

FACTS; INCARNATION; MIND & BODY; MYTHS; SACRAMENTS; TRUTH

19770600

Predestination and freedom were apparently identical.

Perelandra. (PH028, ), p. 149.

FREEDOM; PREDESTINATION

19770600

Lewis, C. S., continued:

I like bats better than bureaucrats.  I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of "Admin."  The greatest evil is....conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed, and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smoothe-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice.

"Preface,"

The Screwtape Letters (PG018, Macmillan, 1971), p. x.

ADMINISTRATION; BUREAUCRATS; EVIL; MANAGERIAL AGE

19870809

The documents say what they say and cannot be added to; each new "historical Jesus" has to be got out of them by suppression at one point and exaggeration at another, and by the sort of guessing...on which no one / would risk ten shillings in ordinary life....

The Screwtape Letters (PG018, Macmillan, 1971), pp. 106-7.

BIOGRAPHIES; BIBLE - INTERPRETATION; HISTORY; JESUS THE CHRIST

19870812

If you must see ghosts, it is better not to disbelieve in them.

That Hideous Strength (PH58,), p. 205.

DISBELIEF; GHOSTS

19870812

For Ransom, whose study had been for many years in the realm of words, it was heavenly pleasure.  He found himself sitting within the very heart of language, in the white-hot furnace of essential speech.  All fact was broken, splashed into cataracts, caught, turned inside out, kneaded, slain, and reborn as meaning.

That Hideous Strength (PH58,), p. 322.

FACTS; LANGUAGE; MEANING; WORDS

19870800

Lewis, C. S., continued:

Heaven is, by definition, outside our experience, but all intelligible descriptions must be of things within our experience.  The scriptural picture of heaven is therefore just as symbolical as the picture which our own desire, unaided, invents for itself;....

"The Weight of Glory",

In his:  The Weight of Glory and Other Addresses, (PH025, Eerdmans, 1965), p. 6.

EXPERIENCE; HEAVEN; SCRIPTURE - INTERPRETATIONS; SYMBOLS

20030525

But my point is that this also is only a symbol, like the reality in some respects, but unlike it in others, and therefore needs correction from the different symbols in the other promises.

"The Weight of Glory",

In his:  The Weight of Glory and Other Addresses, (PH025, Eerdmans, 1965), p. 8.

REALITY; SYMBOLS

20030525

Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.

"The Weight of Glory",

In his:  The Weight of Glory and Other Addresses, (PH025, Eerdmans, 1965), p. 9.

HUMILITY; MODESTY

20030525

There is a crowd of busybodies, self-appointed masters of ceremonies, whose life is devoted to destroying solitude wherever solitude still exists.

"Membership",

In his:  The Weight of Glory and Other Addresses, (PH025, Eerdmans, 1965), p. 31.

MASTERS OF CEREMONIES; SOLITUDE

20030629

Lewis, C. S., continued:

We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and privacy:  and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.

"Membership",

In his:  The Weight of Glory and Other Addresses, (PH025, Eerdmans, 1965), p. 31.

FRIENDSHIP; MEDITATION; PRIVACY; SILENCE; SOLITUDE

20030629

A university is a society for the pursuit of learning.

"Learning in War-Time,"

In his:  The Weight of Glory and Other Addresses, (PH025, Eerdmans, 1965), p. 43.

COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES - DEFINITIONS

20030713

Plausible reasons have never been lacking for putting off all merely cultural activities until some imminent danger has been averted or some crying injustice put right.  But humanity long ago chose to neglect those plausible reasons.

"Learning in War-Time,"

In his:  The Weight of Glory and Other Addresses, (PH025, Eerdmans, 1965), p. 45.

CULTURE; DANGERS; EMERGENCIES; WARS

20030713

An appetite for these things exists in the human mind, and God makes no appetite in vain.  We can therefore pursue knowledge, as such, and beauty, as such, in the sure confidence that by so doing we are either advancing to the vision of God ourselves or indirectly helping to do so.

"Learning in War-Time,"

In his:  The Weight of Glory and Other Addresses, (PH025, Eerdmans, 1965), p. 49.

ARTS; BEAUTY; CHRISTIANITY - THE ARTS; GOD - REVELATION; KNOWLEDGE; SCIENCE; SCHOLARSHIP

20030713

Lewis, Gilbert.

It is still odd, however, that religion and magic rather than economics or politics, for example, should be the usual field in anthropology for comparisons of rationality.

"Magic, Religion and the Rationality of Belief,"

In:  Ingold, Tim, ed. Companion Encyclopedia of Anthropology.  (FIURF, Routledge, 1994), p. 563.

ANTHROPOLOGY - VALUES; COMPARISONS; ECONOMICS; MAGIC; POLITICS; REASON; RELIGION

20070524

Surely it is tendentious to / compare religious practice in one society with science or technology in another as a way of assessing the relative place each gives to reason in it affairs;....  Like should be compared with like:  religion in one society with religion in the other.

"Magic, Religion and the Rationality of Belief,"

In:  Ingold, Tim, ed. Companion Encyclopedia of Anthropology.  (FIURF, Routledge, 1994), pp. 563-4.

ANTHROPOLOGY - VALUES; COMPARISONS; REASON - BASES; SCIENCE; RELIGION; TECHNOLOGY

20070524

The degree to which people's ranges of experience, and their judgements about truth and facts, may differ is at the heart of questions on cultural relativity and the legitimation of belief.  Relativism is a doctrine in the theory of knowledge which asserts that there is no unique truth, no unique objective reality.

"Magic, Religion and the Rationality of Belief,"

In:  Ingold, Tim, ed. Companion Encyclopedia of Anthropology.  (FIURF, Routledge, 1994), p. 566.

BELIEF; EXPERIENCE; FACTS; KNOWLEDGE, THEORY OF; OBJECTIVITY; REALITY; RELATIVISM - DEFINITIONS; TRUTH

20070524

Lewis, Roy Harley.

Experience does have an important contribution to make to any man's business, but too often it merely reflects opportunities to repeat the same mistakes.

Antiquarian Books (HJ376, Arco, 1978), p. 13.

EXPERIENCE; MISTAKES

19880000?

Lin-Chi.

In Buddhism there is no place for using effort.  Just be ordinary and nothing special.  Eat your food, move your bowels, pass water, and when you're tired go and lie down.

in:  Watts, Alan.  Beat Zen, Square Zen, and Zen, p. 3.

in:  Guinness, Os.  The East, No Exit (pamphlet), p. 9.

BUDDHISM; EFFORT; GOALS; LIFE - PURPOSE

19770000?

Livingstone, Sir Richard.

What puzzled Pilate, baffles me, and anyhow I am not dealing with truth in the sense in which he used the word. I mean by it that veracity which does its best to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth; where it is uncertain confesses to uncertainty, where it lacks knowledge does not pretend to it; which is candid and frank, takes no unfair advantage in argument, is careful not to misrepresent an opponent or to ignore the strength of his case and the weakness of its own.

"On Speaking the Truth" in Some Tasks for Education, p. 74;

Quoted by Eclles, Henry E., R. Adm., USN-Ret., Military Power in a Free Society (PK067, Naval War College Press,1979), p. 156.

TRUTH

19860826

Longyear, Barry B.

"I see," said Syndia...."The only gods you will believe in, then, are the gods that you can make do what you want them to do.  Korvas, don't you see that you have things turned around just a little?  The gods do what the gods themselves want to do, just as you do.  If you are lucky, perhaps you might be allowed to do a little of what the gods want you to do.

The Godbox (PN003, 1989), p. 86.

FREEDOM; GOD'S WILL; GODS; WILL POWER

19890716

Long, William F., Jr

My Lai by some name will result whenever men of muscle are goaded beyond endurance by calculating men of nerves.

"MyLai--A Matter of Nerves and Muscle," c. 1970, U.S. Naval War College;

In:  Eccles, Henry E.  Military Power in a Free Society.  (PK067, Naval War College, 1979), p. 187.

BRUTE FORCE; CUNNING; GUERRILLA WARFARE; MUSCLES; MY LAI, VIETNAM; NERVES; VIETNAM WAR; WAR

19860834

Louth, Andrew.

That is to say, mystical theology provides the context for direct apprehensions of the God who has revealed himself in Christ and dwells within us through the Holy Spirit; while dogmatic theology attempts to incarnate those apprehensions in objectively precise terms which then, in their turn, inspire a mystical understanding of the God who has thus revealed himself which is specifically Christian.

The Origins of the Christian Mystical Tradition.  (FIUGL, Clarendon Pr., 1981), p. xi.

DOGMATICS - CHRISTIANITY; MYSTICISM - CHRISTIANITY; THEOLOGY, CHRISTIAN

20040822

But, in the Fathers, there is no divorce between dogmatic and mystical theology;....

The Origins of the Christian Mystical Tradition.  (FIUGL, Clarendon Pr., 1981), p. xii.

CHURCH FATHERS; DOGMATICS - CHRISTIANITY; MYSTICISM - CHRISTIANITY; THEOLOGY, CHRISTIAN

20040822

Lovelock, James.

Schrödinger's disciples, who founded the church of molecular biology, have turned his wisdom into the dogma that life is self-replicating and corrects it errors by natural selection.  There is much more to life than this naive truth, just as there is more to the Universe than atoms alone--grandmothers live and enjoy the shade of Lombardy poplar trees not knowing that they and the trees are deemed by this dogma to be dead.

Nature 320:646 (1986),

In:  Davies, Paul.  The Cosmic Blueprint (PM277, 1988), p. 93.

DOGMA; GRANDMOTHERS; LIFE - SCIENTIFIC DEFINITIONS; POPLARS; RELIGIONS; SCHROEDINGER, ERWIN

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Lowell, James Russell.

In creating, the only hard thing is to begin;  a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.

(website),

In:  Crosby, Cindy.  By Willoway Brook (HQ279, Paraclete Press, 2003), p. 131.

BEGINNING; CREATIVITY; GRASS; OAKS

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Loyn, H. R.

Nothing brings human groups together so closely as a shared successful enterprise.

The Vikings in Britain.  (HJ155, St Martin's Pr., 1977), p. 27.

GROUPS; SUCCESS; UNITY

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Lucas, Linda.

At the most basic level libraries function to assure that people have access to the information they need when they need it.

"Editor's Page,"

The Southeastern Librarian, XXXIV:35 (Summer, 1984.)

LIBRARIES - DEFINITIONS

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Lumsden, Charles J., and Wilson, Edward O.

The preparation and serving of food are key elements of social ritual in virtually every human society.

Promethean Fire (1983), p. 11.

FOOD; HUMAN SOCIETIES

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Lundquist, John M.

The mystical tradition is, by definition, the transferral of the esoteric rituals and instructions from the sacred temple building into the mind of the practicioner.

The Temple.  (FIUGL, Thames & Hudson, 1993), p. 5.

DOGMAS; MYSTICISM; PRACTICES; RITUALS; TEMPLES

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Lurker, Manfred.

Myth displays the liberation of the self from the environment; for the first time man experiences space and time.

The Gods and Symbols of Ancient Egypt.  (FIUGL, Thames & Hudson, 1980), p. 8.

ENVIRONMENTS; FREEDOM; MYTHS; SELF; SPACE & TIME; TIME

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Since the purpose of all true symbols is to direct the individual away from the superficial concerns of life towards the centre of existence, all symbolic phenomena fall into a few typical categories.... The true symbol always points beyond the here and now for it is a signpost to another world.

The Gods and Symbols of Ancient Egypt.  (FIUGL, Thames & Hudson, 1980), p. 9.

CENTERS; LIFE; SIGNPOSTS; SYMBOLS - DEFINITIONS; SYMBOLS - PURPOSES; TYPES

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Although a part can indicate the whole (para pro toto), it can never replace it, for a symbol is always subsidiary to that to which it refers.  The purpose of symbols is not to reveal the hidden relationships between earthly phenomena in a rationalistic way but rather to point to the irrational.

The Gods and Symbols of Ancient Egypt.  (FIUGL, Thames & Hudson, 1980), p. 9.

IRRATIONAL, THE; PARTS; RATIONAL, THE; REFERENTS; SYMBOLS - PURPOSES; WHOLES

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