"A man," said Oliver Cromwell, "never rises so high as when he knows not whither he is going." Dreams and drunkenness, the use of ...opium and alcohol are the semblance and counterfeit of this oracular genius, and hence their dangerous attraction for men. For the like reason they ask the aid of wild passions, as in gaming and war, to ape in some manner these flames and generosities of the heart.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to 'principles,' and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an or...acular solution.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Legends of prediction are common throughout the whole Household of Man. Gods speak, spirits speak, computers speak. Oracular ambig...uity or statistical probability provides loopholes, and discrepancies are expunged by Faith.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What large children we are here. All over I grow most tall... in the best ward. Your business is people, you call at the madhouse, an oracular eye in our nest.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Suppose you attend to the suggestions which the moon makes for one month, commonly in vain, will it not be very different from any...thing in literature or religion? But why not study this Sanskrit? What if one moon has come and gone with its world of poetry, its weird teachings, its oracular suggestions,--so divine a creature freighted with hints for me, and I have not used her? One moon gone by unnoticed?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »