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    Mystical Maxims

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    MYSTICAL MAXIMS is magical! The 500+ axioms penetrate one's spirit, releasing pent-up heroic instincts. Enjoy timeless philosophical Truth and invaluable noble aphorisms.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRobert S. Hare
    Release dateSep 1, 2013
    ISBN9781301064670
    Mystical Maxims
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    Robert S. Hare

    SINGULARITY publishes small, concise philosophical eBooks. The distilled prose delivers simple, raw philosophy to discerning readers – just the thing they didn’t know that they craved. Contact, sign up for new title alerts from SINGULARITY, at: [email protected]

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      Mystical Maxims - Robert S. Hare

      MYSTICAL MAXIMS

      Robert S. Hare

      for Lila

      MYSTICAL MAXIMS is magical!

      The 500+ aphorisms penetrate one's spirit, releasing pent-up heroic instincts.

      Enjoy timeless philosophical Truth - and invaluable lessons in nobleness.

      Published by SINGULARITY,

      SMASHWORDS Edition

      Copyright 2013, Robert S. Hare

      No part of MYSTICAL MAXIMS may be used without written (email) permission.

      Please contact SINGULARITY, [email protected]

      MYSTICAL MAXIMS may only be shared if additional copies are purchased, at the reasonable price. Please contact Smashwords.com

      ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

      Edward Bellamy

      Helena Pretrovna Blavatsky

      Paul Bourget

      Georg Brandes

      Joseph Campbell

      Thomas Carlyle

      Charles Dickens

      Ralph Waldo Emerson

      Victor Hugo

      Herman Melville

      Friedrich Nietzsche

      Jean Jacques Rousseau

      Henry David Thoreau

      Mark Twain

      William Butler Yeats

      PART ONE, CRITICISM

      Chapter 1. ON THE MIND

      Knowledge is a late form of belief.

      The spirit has abdicated; now, the brain rules.

      Fitness of spirit shouldn’t be sacrificed to a dubious enlightenment.

      Dissecting effects, without going back to earlier effects, brings false wisdom.

      Cause and effect are illusions. Nothing causes events. We’re confronted with a continuum, and we isolate segments of it.

      Nothing ever is. Everything changes.

      That which convinces isn’t necessarily true; it’s merely convincing.

      The same thing is interpreted differently when viewed from different perspectives. There is only perspective seeing, only perspective knowing.

      Science is skepticism; one error replaces another; inductions, deductions, reductions.

      At the periphery of science logic coils up, and one gazes into the abyss.

      .....

      We learn dexterity with syllogisms, which we mistake for education.

      Thoughts are manufactured and wholesale.

      Reason invents reasons for our desires.

      Untruth is now a condition of life.

      Innocent minds become cunning minds.

      .....

      The wise love wisdom, and search for it. Fools are foolish because they have never loved wisdom.

      Ancient wisdom is intoxicating. Modern knowledge is not.

      What is wanted is a revolt in the human mind.

      Transcend minimal consciousness.

      Rise above good and evil. Perceive, instead, gradation.

      The only knowledge is to know that nothing

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