"Logos" Quotes from Famous Books
... first part is, it is only a preparation for the second, which shows the Church not as one religion among many but as the only religion, for it is the only Thing that binds into one both Philosophy (or Thought) and Mythology (or Poetry), giving us a Logos Who is also the Hero of the strangest story in the world. He asks the man who talks of reading the Gospels really to read them as he might read his daily paper and to feel the terrific shock of the words of Christ to the Pharisees or the behaviour of Christ ... — Gilbert Keith Chesterton • Maisie Ward
... ever new! Eternal Voice, and Inward Word, The Logos of the Greek and Jew, The old sphere-music which ... — The Complete Works of Whittier - The Standard Library Edition with a linked Index • John Greenleaf Whittier
... contradicting but supplementing the first is the law of Polarity, i.e., duality. All things have sex, are either masculine or feminine. This too is the reflection on a lower plane of one of those transcendental truths taught by the Ancient Wisdom, namely that the Logos, in his voluntarily circumscribing his infinite life in order that he may manifest, encloses himself within his limiting veil, maya, and that his life appears as spirit (male), and his maya as matter (female), ... — The Beautiful Necessity • Claude Fayette Bragdon |