The ultimate, most holy form of theory is action.
Interpretation
Action is the highest expression of thought and theory.
This quote emphasizes that theoretical ideas have little value unless they are transformed into action. It suggests that the true essence of theory lies in how it is applied in the real world, highlighting the importance of taking initiative and making tangible changes based on one's beliefs and knowledge.
In practice
In a motivational speech about overcoming procrastination.
A weak soul does not have the endurance to resist the flesh for very long. It grows heavy, becomes flesh itself, and the contest ends. But among responsible men, men who keep their eyes riveted day and night upon the Supreme Duty, the conflict between flesh and spirit breaks out mercilessly and may last until death.
This, I thought, is how great visionaries and poets see everything- as if for the first time. Each morning they see a new world before their eyes; they do not really see it, they create it.
What happiness this is: to fly, skimming over the earth just as we do in our dreams! Life has become a dream. Can this be the meaning of paradise?
I collect my tools: sight, smell, touch, taste, hearing, intellect. Night has fallen.
The dual substance of Christ - the yearning, so human, so superhuman, of man to attain God. [...] has always been a deep inscrutable mystery to me. [...] My principle anguish and source of all my joys and sorrows from my youth onward has been the incessant, merciless battle between the spirit and the flesh. [...] And my soul is the arena where these two armies have clashed and met.
I fight to embrace the entire circle of human activity to the full extent of my ability.
For the moral attitudes of a people that is supported by religion need always aim at preserving and promoting the sanity and vitality of the community and its individuals, since otherwise this community is bound to perish. A people that were to honour falsehood, defamation, fraud, and murder would be unable, indeed, to subsist for very long.
Violence is fomented by the imposition of singular and belligerent identities on gullible people, championed by proficient artisans of terror.
The individual does actually carry on a double existence: one designed to serve his own purposes and another as a link in a chain, in which he serves against, or at any rate without, any volition of his own.
I am busily engaged in the study of the Bible. I believe it is God's word because it finds me where I am.
Time is our element, not a mistaken invader.
Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.
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