…phantoms. And then these phantoms and these dreams have a tendency to make cowards of us all, as in the soliloquy of Hamlet. We are in the presence of an invisible realm from which we are marvelously and wonderfully protected because we have a particular…

…stop doing the things that cause trouble. Now we might say we could also start doing the things that do not cause trouble. But as Hamlet says, aye, there's the rub. We are not able to find very much that we can do that does not cause trouble. We say…

…That the entire subject is one of absolute negation. What particular value is there in anything winning anything if, as it says in Hamlet, the rest is silence? Just what does atheism do? It not only cuts off man's hope of a future existence, but by its…

…intended to strike the conscience of the people of Austria, and later the people of the world. We can paraphrase the famous lines of Hamlet, in this case, and say, the opera is the thing with which to catch the conscience of the king. In this case, the…

…the same tradition. Odin, therefore, proceeds through all of the various procedures and developments of mind. But mind, almost like Hamlet, is a melancholy dame. Because mind in its own pure nature within itself according to these people was frustrated…

…individual dies out or fades out of the emotional life. In each case, except the physical, it is a going to sleep. And Hamlet, you know, in the Soliloquy, Hamlet says, he's referring to this, that in sleep what dreams may come. In the sleep of death,…

…out of the emotional life. In each case, except the physical, it is a going to sleep. And Hamlet, you know, in the Soliloquy, Hamlet says, he's referring to this, that in sleep what dreams may come. In the sleep of death, what dreams may come. This is…

…that kind of world which the ancients considered to be a kind of sleep. A sleep. And as we learn in the soliloquy of Hamlet, in this sleep of death, what dreams may come shall give us pause. In other words, the whole thing was an internal experience.…

…he awakes from the dream. A compound dream, one within another. But in this mysterious inner dream within the other dreams, as in Hamlet, the play within the play, he is taken into the home of the seeking. He is taken into the most distant and marvelous…

…find a way of truth in the midst of all these difficulties. So this conscience becomes the symbol, or as it says in Hamlet, for conscience doth make cowards of us all. every time we outrage conscience we suffer every time we go against it we regret…

…his day plays many parts Now this is theater but it is something more than that. It implies the theater of the world. In Hamlet we find the Prince of Denmark remarking the play is the thing with which I'll catch the conscience of the king. Play acting…

…altogether we have much to explain why the majority of ghost stories are melancholy. We also realize how the story of Hamlet could well represent the maliciousness of revenge. how the disturbed mind, already heavy with doubts and subconscious fears, as was…

…the maliciousness of revenge. how the disturbed mind, already heavy with doubts and subconscious fears, as was the mind of Prince Hamlet, could be led to a complete pattern of avengements. These avengements might be just, they might be well called for…