Oliver Joseph Lodge Quotes
"Any person without invincible prejudice who had the same experience would come to the same broad conclusion, viz., that things hitherto held impossible do actually occur."
- Oliver Joseph Lodge
(Related: Experience, Prejudice)
"Basing my conclusions on experience I am absolutely convinced not only of survival but of demonstrated survival, demonstrated by occasional interaction with matter in such a way as to produce physical results."
- Oliver Joseph Lodge
(Related: Experience, Survival, Results)
"But although life is not energy, any more than it is matter, yet it directs energy and thereby controls arrangements of matter."
- Oliver Joseph Lodge
(Related: Life, Energy)
"Death is not a word to fear, any more than birth is."
- Oliver Joseph Lodge
(Related: Death, Fear, Word)
"Death is not extinction. Neither the soul nor the body is extinguished or put out of existence."
- Oliver Joseph Lodge
(Related: Death, Soul, Body, Existence)
"In other cases, when the medium becomes entranced, the demonstration of a communicator's separate intelligence may become stronger and the sophistication less."
- Oliver Joseph Lodge
(Related: Intelligence, May, Sophistication)
"Life must be considered sui generis; it is not a form of energy, nor can it be expressed in terms of something else."
- Oliver Joseph Lodge
(Related: Life, Energy)
"The amount of sophistication varies according to the quality of the medium, and to the state of the same medium at different times; it must be attributed in the best cases physiologically to the medium, intellectually to the control."
- Oliver Joseph Lodge
(Related: Quality, Control, Sophistication, State)
"The old series of sittings with Mrs. Piper convinced me of survival for reasons which I should find it hard to formulate in any strict fashion, but that was their distinct effect."
- Oliver Joseph Lodge
(Related: Survival, Effect, Fashion, Old)
"The properties which differentiate living matter from any kind of inorganic imitation may be instinctively felt, but can hardly be formulated without expert knowledge."
- Oliver Joseph Lodge
(Related: Knowledge, Imitation, Living, May)
"We know that communication must be hampered, and its form largely determined, by the unconscious but inevitable influence of a transmitting mechanism, whether that be of a merely mechanical or of a physiological character."
- Oliver Joseph Lodge
(Related: Character, Communication, Influence, Unconscious)
"Whatever life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common to all animals and plants, and which is not directly operative in the inorganic world."
- Oliver Joseph Lodge
(Related: Life, Animals, May, Plants, Word, World)
"The hypothesis of surviving intelligence and personality - not only surviving but anxious and able with difficulty to communicate - is the simplest and most straightforward and the only one that fits all the facts."
- Oliver Joseph Lodge
(Related: Intelligence, Difficulty, Facts, Personality)
"They definitely mean to maintain that the process called death is a mere severence of soul and body, and that the soul is freed rather than injured thereby."
- Oliver Joseph Lodge
(Related: Death, Soul, Body)