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One Quotes by Emanuel Swedenborg
- It can in no sense be said that heaven is outside of any one; it is within ... and a man, also, so far as…
- One's distance from Heaven is in proportion to the measure of one's self-love.
- The more one is absorbed in so-called philosophy, the greater one's delusion and blindness.
- I am well aware that many will say that no one can possibly speak with spirits and angels so long as he lives in the…
- Justice is following the divine design in all that one does, and bringing back into the divine design things that have fallen away from that…
- A person's life from infancy to old age is nothing else than an advance from the world towards heaven, the last stage of which is…
- God loves every one of us but cannot directly benefit us; he can benefit us only indirectly through each other. For this reason he inspires…
- No one's character is completely like another'sthis infinite variety is like a mirror in which we can see the infinity of God the Creator.
- I have seen a thousand times that Angels are human form, or men, for I have conversed with them as man to man, sometimes with…
- Man was so created by the Lord as to be able while living in the body to speak with spirits and angels, as in fact…
- Everything good or true that the angels inspire in us is God's, so God is constantly talking to us. He talks very differently, though, to…
- Love means setting aside walls, fences, and unlocking doors and saying 'Yes.' One can be in paradise by simply saying 'yes' to this moment.
- The Lord casts no one down in Hell, but the spirit casts himself hither.
- Two consorts in heaven are not two, but one angel.
- Moreover, no one is judged from the natural man, thus not so long as he lives in the natural world, for man is then in…
- I have often talked with angels on this subject, and they have invariably declared that in heaven they are unable to divide the Divine into…
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- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
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- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
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- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle