Quotes: "Blessed be the peacemakers..."

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Still, I am conscious now that behind all this beauty, satisfying though it may be, there is some spirit hidden of which the painted forms and shapes are but modes of manifestation, and it is with this spirit that I desire to become in harmony. I have grown tired of the articulate utterances of men and things. The Mystical in Art, the Mystical in Life, the Mystical in Nature this is what I am looking for.--Oscar Wilde (De Profundis)

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Blessed be the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God--Matthew 5

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Goethe had a premonition of this decline of the West: even in October 1801 he remarked in conversation... that spiritual emptiness and lack of character were spreading...--Hans Günther, Religious Attitudes of the Indo-Europeans

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If the development of civilization has such a far-reaching similarity to the development of the individual and if it employs the same methods, may we not be justified in reaching the diagnosis that, under the influence of the cultural urges, some civilizations, or some epochs of civilization- possibly the whole of mankind – have become 'neurotic'? See at the bottom for the answer

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An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.--Simon Cameron, General and American patriot

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Those who pray do more for the world than those who fight; and if the world goes from bad to worse, it is because there are more battles than prayers.--George S. Patton, said prior to the Battle of the Bulge

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Perhaps the most obvious political effect of controlled news is the advantage it gives powerful people in getting their issues on the political agenda and defining those issues in ways likely to influence their resolution.--W. Lance Bennett

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The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth.--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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MYSTERY QUOTE AND ANSWER - DID YOU GUESS CORRECTLY?

If the development of civilization has such a far-reaching similarity to the development of the individual and if it employs the same methods, may we not be justified in reaching the diagnosis that, under the influence of the cultural urges, some civilizations, or some epochs of civilization- possibly the whole of mankind – have become 'neurotic'?

MYSTERY ANSWER: Sigmund Freud Civilization and its Discontents, 1930