"The idea of eternity lives in all of……" — Christian Lous Lange
"The idea of eternity lives in all of us. We thirst to live in a belief which raises our small personality to a higher coherence - a coherence which is human and yet superhuman, absolute and yet steadily growing and developing, ideal and yet real."
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39 Quotes by Christian Lous Lange
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Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master.
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Today we stand on a bridge leading from the territorial state to the world community. Politically, we are still governed…
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Every time economic and technical development takes a step forward, forces emerge which attempt to create political forms for what,…
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Just as characteristic, perhaps, is the intellectual interdependence created through the development of the modern media of communication: post, telegraph,…
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Propaganda must appeal to mankind's better judgment and to the necessary belief in a better future. For this belief, the…
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Hand in hand with nationalist economic isolationism, militarism struggles to maintain the sovereign state against the forward march of internationalism.
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It is an accepted commonplace in psychology that the spiritual level of people acting as a crowd is far lower…
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The main concept is that of an international solidarity expressed in practice through worldwide division of labor: free trade is…
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Within each such social group, a feeling of solidarity prevails, a compelling need to work together and a joy in…
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The free trade movement in the middle of the last century represents the first conscious recognition of these new circumstances…
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Europe cannot survive another world war.
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The sovereign state has in our times become a lethal danger to human civilization because technical developments enable it to…
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Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
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No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath…
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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point…
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It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas…
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The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.
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The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.
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Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.
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