The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.
The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.
Scotsmen are metaphisical and emotional, they are sceptical and mystical, they are romantic and ironic, they are cruel and tender, and full of mirth and despair.
The relationship between a Russian and a bottle of vodka is almost mystical.
And when I go to see plays, I marvel at how people can do that. I've done it all my life, but I still find it mystical.
All roads indeed lead to Rome, but theirs also is a more mystical destination, some bourne of which no traveller knows the name, some city, they all seem to hint, even more eternal.
Blake said that the body was the soul's prison unless the five senses are fully developed and open. He considered the senses the 'windows of the soul.' When sex involves all the senses intensely, it can be like a mystical experence.
Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way.
Nothing is more witty and grotesque than ancient mythology and Christianity; that is because they are so mystical.
The mystical poetry of William Blake's artwork also forms the basis for the album cover.
I firmly believe that all human beings have access to extraordinary energies and powers. Judging from accounts of mystical experience, heightened creativity, or exceptional performance by athletes and artists, we harbor a greater life than we know.
It is not a mystical thing, however, it is obvious and practical and I think that what the performer does is to try to get to that point with every choice you make from the phrasing in a tune to the choice of tunes.
It is the eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that, where one member suffers, all the members suffer with it.
Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.
I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears and its desire to present itself to the world as a Scotch banker.
I ain't got no magical powers and mystical trips and all that kind of crap. It's kind of silly.
My first thought when I came here was that I understood why there are so many great Irish writers - because there is something mystical in the air. There's always this cloudy, moody sky and it's challenging.
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