Word: insights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This Important Epoch. Said Wilhelmina: "I must accept reality, and though I know full well that man proposes and God disposes, I think that in the interests of you all and the Empire the government should be confided to Juliana, who apart from the wisdom of insight is favored by her age with fresh youthful forces at her disposal...
...this, which Hawthorne might have written, are seldom written (or read) in our time; they are even more seldom brought to the screen. Producer-Director Carl Dreyer (who made the famed Passion of Joan of Arc, 1928) has filmed Day of Wrath with more than sufficient sobriety, restraint, insight and beauty...
...historical function of civilizations to serve, by their downfalls, as steppingstones to a progressive process of the revelation of always deeper religious insight . . . civilizations will have fulfilled their function when once they have brought a mature higher religion to birth; and, on this showing, our own Western post-Christian secular civilization might at best be a superfluous repetition of the pre-Christian Graeco-Roman one, and at worst a pernicious backsliding from the path of spiritual progress. In our Western world of today, the worship of Leviathan-the self-worship of the tribe -is a religion to which...
Professor Elliott maintained that at least one value, "the human soul," could not be discovered empirically, but only through "insight" and "religious experience...
Lectures and subsequent discussions will be informal, and will attempt to give insight into the interplay of "observation, deduction, and imagination" in physical theories, and the relation between physical theory and the intellectual environment...