Science will provide the material basis for a spiritually mature technologically advanced civilisation, it will achieve its higher spiritual purpose of evolving all of humanity. No other spiritual, mystical or religious institution has ever been able to do this and never will.
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Related God, deities and prophets thrive on obscurity, and it does not necessarily have to be material obscu... ABHIJIT NASKAR No movie has ever been able to provide a catharsis for the Holocaust, and I suspect none will ever b... ROGER EBERT I think most people think that a spiritual path or growing spiritually means that all of a sudden yo... IYANLA VANZANT Democracy is, first and foremost, a spiritual force, it is built upon a spiritual basis - and on a b... , PUBLIC PAPERS OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: HARRY S. TRUMAN - 1951 U.S. GOV. 1966 P1063 No one has ever been able to discover how they make this subtle sound, and what is more, no one ever... PAUL GALLICO Patriotism cannot be our final spiritual shelter; my refuge is humanity. I will not buy glass for th... RABINDRANATH TAGORE My religious conversion is not inspired by any material motive. This is hardly anything I cannot ach... B. R. AMBEDKAR Fairy tales and stories of fantasy bridge the gap and inspires the heart and mind wherever religious... ALARIC HUTCHINSON The crux of the matter is whether total war in its present form is justifiable, even when it serves ... JOHN HERSEY Porsche is the exception that proves the rule: no other car company of its size has had a chance on ... GAREL RHYS All my books reflect travel adventures of some kind, and all have a soul: a spiritual or mystical un... O. R. MELLING All those that claim to have founded one religious house or another will all have in the future, a c... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) No one will presumably ever be able to prove or disprove such fundamental religious principles as th... STEPHEN KINZER To recover a spiritual tradition in which creation, and the study of creation, matters would be to i... MATTHEW FOX There is no such thing as material covetousness. All covetousness is spiritual. ...Any so-called mat... MARK TWAIN TSMC is ahead in terms of technology and know-how. For the higher- quality and more technologically ... ALAN RICHARDSON TSMC is ahead in terms of technology and know-how. For the higher-quality and more technologically a... ALAN RICHARDSON Our physical world seems ready and able to accommodate the needs of the spiritually awakened new Sup... ANTHON ST. MAARTEN Entheogens (or psychedelics, to be more historically correct) have now been recognized as the mother... JAMES OROC The best narrative is one of infinite love. A spiritual affair--one not of the material world. Inter... TERRY A. O'NEAL Love is the will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual ... M. SCOTT PECK After the spiritual powers, there is no thing in the world more unconquerable than the spirit of nat... GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Happiness is a spiritual dimension; therefore its source should also be spiritual, not material. SUNDAY ADELAJA Bring forth a spiritual idea that will never fade. MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON I will not judge a person to be spiritually dead whom I have judged formerly to have had spiritual l... JOHN OWEN Jonathan has been a star of the company for a generation and we are all thrilled that he will remain... TONY HALL Many people are looking for an ear that will listen. They do not find it among Christians, because t... DIETRICH BONHOEFFER On the spiritual theory, man consists essentially of a spiritual nature or mind intimately associate... ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE When we think of failure; Failure will be ours. If we remain undecided; Nothing will ever change. Al... MAHARISHI MAHESH YOGI Having most of the members of an oceanographic science party on land has never been tried. The appro... DEBORAH KELLEY Blowing up buses will not induce the Israelis to move forward, and neither will the killing of Pales... ABDULLAH II OF JORDAN I think we are trying to run the space age with horse and buggy moral and spiritual equipment. Techn... BILLY GRAHAM England and the English governing class never did call on this absurd deity of race until it seemed,... G.K. CHESTERTON A genuine Christian with a heart empty of all wickedness and filled with Christ's Love should be abl... SANTOSH THANKACHAN The ever increasing spiritual damage caused by life within the big city will make this hunger practi... FRITZ TODT What brings you closer to God is being in service to others. I think any religion or spiritual way o... STEVE-O The hope is indeed that some will experience and believe: The purpose of a number of spiritual gurus... CRISS JAMI Most religious individuals do not conceive God in an anthropomorphic or angry way. Rather, in their ... ABHIJIT NASKAR To fight extremism, we will need to pursue a two-pronged strategy: both 'hard,' through stri... BEJI CAID ESSEBSI This will be the most powerful genetic study that has ever been undertaken for MS or for any other d... MARK DALY Down through the ages, there has always been the spiritual path. It's been passed on - it always... GEORGE HARRISON ... Protestantism, in its quest for 'rational knowledge' of God's purpose and for an understanding o... NICHOLAS GANE Spiritual Laws ensures that every entity will be at the exact place where it has earned the right to... THOMAS VAZHAKUNNATHU Science is proving more and more each day what some spiritual teachers have been teaching for thousa... HOWARD MANN On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spirit... BHAGAVAD GITA Government, obviously, cannot fill a child's emotional needs. Nor can it fill his spiritual and mora... WILLIAM BENNETT Christianity, with or without its whole apparatus of dogma, will endure in its essence for thousands... BJORNSTJERNE BJORNSON There is no quarrel between science and spirituality. I often hear people of science trying to use i... C. JOYBELL C. ...everything is too important ever to be entrusted to professional experts, because every organizat... CARROLL QUIGLEY Evolution seems to close the heart to some of the plainest spiritual truths while it opens the mind ... WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN Preaching is God's great institution for the planting and maturing of spiritual life. When prope... EDWARD MCKENDREE BOUNDS Research! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of t... BENJAMIN JOWETT Justice is never given; it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a fin... A. PHILIP RANDOLPH This satsang (spiritual discourse) of 'ours' is considered unprecedented! It is such that it has nev... DADA BHAGWAN Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it everybody seeks it, but few ever ac... CURTIS JUDALET Science will never be able to reduce the value of a sunset to arithmetic. Nor can it reduce friendsh... DR. LOUIS ORR The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, an... PAUL TWITCHELL The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will
grant others their own freedom, an... PAUL TWITCHELL On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I have this excellent notion that we each have our own soul's purpose. We aren't meant to be in a sp... MISHI MCCOY It’s a love of Piscean that you will never understand but it will hit your core not knowingly you ... HAMEED QURESHI All humanity needs, is to be reminded that there has always existed a human consensus on all common ... HAROUTIOUN BOCHNAKIAN there is no greater force within creation than the free will of beings endowed with self-consciousne... KALLISTOS WARE At best spiritual voices help us replace madness with clarity & violence with compassion and peace. ... JOSEPH CAMPBELL To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and ... JAMES BUCHANAN Whoever has once been truly unsettled by a work of the imagination will never give loyalty to a sing... HOWARD JACOBSON For such will be our ruin if you, in the immensity of your public abstractions, forget the private f... VIRGINIA WOOLF Chastity by no means signifies rejection of human sexuality or lack of esteem for it: rather it sign... JOHN PAUL II A competitive and insecure woman will tell you that “true love” is never giving up on someone yo... SHANNON L. ALDER On the religious Right and religious people in general have the feeling that the world is not just m... JONATHAN HAIDT It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way. OSCAR WILDE Each year the Georgia Life Sciences Summit sets a new attendance record, ... Escalating enthusiasm f... CHARLES CRAIG The ego is the self that is unaware of itself so unless you seek first who you are not, the ego will... MARIA ERVING If spiritual science is to do the same for spirit that natural science has done for nature, it must ... RUDOLF STEINER However, one day, this shallow living will not be enough for you. You are gifted with a questioning ... GRACE SARA We set sail on this new sea because there is new knowledge to be gained, and new rights to be won, a... JOHN F. KENNEDY The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, an... PAUL TWITCHELL A spiritual partnership is a partnership between equals for the purpose of spiritual growth. Spiritu... GARY ZUKAV The solution for mankind is of a spiritual nature. It is not a political or religious solution. It... ZIGGY MARLEY Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no s... JAMES REDFIELD Whatever one man is capable of conceiving, other men will be able to achieve JULES VERNE We all know Shea Stadium occupies a place in this borough, physically and spiritually. It has served... HELEN MARSHALL There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sus... ALICE WALKER I'll be interested to see the outcome. I'm not sure if it will make a huge splash or not... but this... AMY CAMPBELL As a continuing innovator in the area of consumer electronics technology, Samsung is excited to rele... ANDREW THOMPSON Buddhism has the characteristics of what would be expected in a cosmic religion for the future: It t... ALBERT EINSTEIN Every relationship is a cost benefit calculation; either it is material or spiritual. M.F. MOONZAJER It doesn't matter the amount of anointing and a spiritual revelation that a man has. If the mind is ... SUNDAY ADELAJA The Will of God is the same for all. He has no favorites within His household. All He has ever done ... EDDIE CAPPARUCCI All your life you are told the things you cannot do. All your life they will say you're not good eno... ANON. Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact scienc... AMELIA BARR Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact scienc... AMELIA E. BARR I would say that all our sciences are the material that has to be mythologized. A mythology gives sp... JOSEPH CAMPBELL If Americans ever allow banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation and then by... THOMAS JEFFERSON It will be the mother of all telescopes, and you can bet it will do for astronomy what genome sequen... SETH SHOSTAK If companies can refuse to provide coverage for women, what other objections to the Affordable Care ... AL SHARPTON Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, i... TRYON EDWARDS Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science,... TYRON EDWARDS Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, i... TRYON EDWARDS There is a danger there - a very real danger to humanity. Consider, Watson, that the material, the s... ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
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TOLKIEN A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid. J. R. R. TOLKIEN If you really want to know what Middle-earth is based on, it's my wonder and delight in the eart... J. R. R. TOLKIEN The proper study of Man is anything but Man; and the most improper job of any man, even saints (who ... J. R. R. TOLKIEN I should like to save the Shire, if I could - though there have been times when I thought the inhabi... J. R. R. TOLKIEN It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him. J. R. R. TOLKIEN I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as... J. R. R. TOLKIEN You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have. J. R. R. TOLKIEN The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out. J. R. R. TOLKIEN Nobody is a villain in their own story. We're all the heroes of our own stories. GEORGE R. R. MARTIN A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen. J. R. R. TOLKIEN Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not b... J. R. R. TOLKIEN Courage is found in unlikely places. J. R. R. TOLKIEN Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or conte... J. R. R. TOLKIEN All your words are but to say: you are a woman, and your part is in the house. But when the men have... J. R. R. TOLKIEN Nothing bores me more than books where you read two pages and you know exactly how it's going to... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN One of the big breakthroughs, I think for me, was reading Robert A. Heinlein's four rules of wri... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Not all who wander are lost. J. R. R. TOLKIEN Elves seldom give unguarded advice, for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wis... J. R. R. TOLKIEN It's the job that's never started takes longest to finish. J. R. R. TOLKIEN I wish life was not so short, he thought. languages take such a time, and so do all the things one w... J. R. R. TOLKIEN Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate. J. R. R. TOLKIEN Remember what Bilbo used to say: It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step ont... J. R. R. TOLKIEN The Road goes ever on and on Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has go... J. R. R. TOLKIEN Then the enchantment became more dreamlike, until he felt that an endless river of swelling gold and... J. R. R. TOLKIEN Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger. J. R. R. TOLKIEN I dislike Allegory - the conscious and intentional allegory - yet any attempt to explain the purport... J. R. R. TOLKIEN Whether you're a history buff or a fantasy fan, Druon's epic will keep you turning pages. Th... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish. J. R. R. TOLKIEN So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their ending! J. R. R. TOLKIEN All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. J. R. R. TOLKIEN All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does no... J. R. R. TOLKIEN Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate. J. R. R. TOLKIEN Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens. J. R. R. TOLKIEN If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. J. R. R. TOLKIEN An awful lot of fantasy, and even some great fantasy, falls into the mistake of assuming that a good... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN As Faulkner says, all of us have the capacity in us for great good and for great evil, for love but ... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN