... must be lived before being spoken. So we have time! April 20, 1968 AM IX-112-113 [Mother hands the disciple her note of 19 April] Today I received a letter from a Swedish lady, I think (Swedish or Norwegian, I don't know) who bought a painting of the crucifixion.... A huge painting! — huge, I don't remember the dimensions, but it's enormous, something like 10 metres ...
... division between the two has no sense for me as, in truth, life and the spirit are ONE and it is in and by physical work that the highest spirit must be manifested. I got today a letter from a Swedish lady, I think (Swedish or Norwegian, I don't know), who bought a crucifixion.... A HUGE painting—huge, I forget its size, but it's fantastic, something like thirty feet high. She asks me what she should ...
... seclusion from social life. He carried on, however, an enlightened intellectual correspondence with Queen Christina of Sweden, a lady of great intelligence, who persuaded him to take up residence at her court so that she could take lessons from him. He then moved to Sweden, and that is where he died in 1650. Descartes' writings seem to have been done during short periods of great concentration... 1641 Meditations. 1644 The principles of philosophy. 1649 Treatise on passions. Descartes goes to sweden, invited by Queen Christina. 1651 — Death of Descartes in Sweden. Suggestions for further reading Descartes, R. Meditations and Discourse on Method. Durant, Will. The Story of Philosophy... such knowledge, I had only to consider each quality of which I had an idea, and decide whether it was or was not a perfection to possess Page 228 Descartes with Queen Christina of Sweden it. I would then be certain that none of those which had some imperfection was in him, but that all the others were. I saw that doubt, inconstancy, sorrow and similar things could not be part ...
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