Philosophy resembles poetry in being an art for enforcing meditation, for driving the mind inwards until it sinks into its Object.
L. P. Jacks
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Speech is insufficient to utter the last things; and this troubles it not, because the last things may be heard speaking for themselves. At last, after long delay the wondering soul gives form to that which is stirring within it and produces its works art and song and mighty deeds.
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Are there not many Arts which, though speechless, express their meanings with perfect adequacy, with satisfaction to the recipient, and serve at the same time as a medium of communication between soul and soul?
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Among the arts of expression one is suited to this purpose, another to that. It is hard to express movement in stone or rest in music. It is harder still to express permanence in speech.
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Our intellectual development in the field of science has outstripped our human development in the field of character.
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Spirit is matter seen in a stronger light. What else did Malebranche mean when he spoke of seeing all things in God? Existence is a mystery because the light of it is inexhaustible.
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