Evelyn Underhill

Naissance 6 December 1875 · Décès 15 June 1941

Citations

“As to the most prudent logicians might venture to deduce from a skein of wool the probable existence of a sheep; so you, from the raw stuff of perception, may venture to deduce a universe which transcends the reproductive powers of your loom.”
Practical Mysticism, Chapter IIEn anglais
“Because mystery is horrible to us, we have agreed for the most part to live in a world of labels; to make of them the current coin of experience, and ignore their merely symbolic character, the infinite gradation of values which they represent.”
Practical Mysticism, Chapter IEn anglais
“Wisdom is the fruit of communion; ignorance the inevitable portion of those who "keep themselves to themselves," and stand apart, judging, analysing the things which they have truly never known.”
Practical Mysticism, Chapter IEn anglais
“It is reasonable, even reassuring, that hard work and discipline should be needed for this: that it should demand of you, if not the renunciation of the cloister, at least the virtues of the golf course.”
Practical Mysticism, Chapter IIIEn anglais
“No nation is truly defeated which retains its spiritual self-possession. No nation is truly victorious which does not emerge soul unstained.”
Practical Mysticism, p. 14En anglais

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Les livres de Evelyn Underhill dans l'ordre de parution, de The Spiritual Life (1900) à Radiance (2004).