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«The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary: men alone are quite capable of every wickedness»
«We can see a thousand miracles around us every day. What is more supernatural than an egg yolk turning into a chicken?»
Author: S. Parkes Cadman
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Miracles
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chicken, chicken out, egg, egg yolk, Miracles, supernatural, supernatural being, turning, what is more, yolk, yolks
«There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist's relation to bread and blood. In this view, the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.»
Author: Adrienne Rich
| Keywords:
assumes, blood relation, channel, clogged, clogging, disturbances, falsely, local, mystical, relation to, supernatural, unrelated
«The many instances of forged miracles, and prophecies, and supernatural events, which, in all ages, have either been detected by contrary evidence, or which detect themselves by their absurdity, prove sufficiently the strong propensity of mankind to»
Author: David Hume
(Economist, Essayist, Historian, Philosopher)
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Events,
Miracles
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absurdity, all ages, detect, detected, forged, instances, propensity, Prophecies, sufficiently, supernatural
«The supernatural is the natural not yet understood»
Author: Elbert Hubbard
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natural, naturals, not yet, supernatural, supernatural being, The Natural, understood
«What is peculiar in the life of a man consists not in his obedience, but his opposition, to his instincts. In one direction or another he strives to live a supernatural life.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
instincts, obedience, opposition, oppositions, peculiar, strives, supernatural, supernatural being
«We are born, we live, we die among supernatural.»
«The further limits of our being plunge, it seems to me, into an altogether other dimension of existence from the sensible and merely ''understandable'' world. Name it the mystical region, or the supernatural region, whichever you choose. So far as our ideal impulses originate in this region (and most of them do originate in it, for we find them possessing us in a way for which we cannot articulately account), we belong to it in a more intimate sense than that in which we belong to the visible world, for we belong in the most intimate sense wherever our ideals belong.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
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altogether, articulately, dimension, impulses, in a way, mystical, originate in, plunge, possessing, region, sensible, supernatural, understandable
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