"It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it."- Jacob Chanowski
� Love truth, but pardon error.�- Voltaire
�Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.�- Albert Camus
"When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do." -William Blake
�The Earth has a skin, and that skin has diseases. One of its diseases is called man.� - Friedrich Nietszche *
"It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways." -Buddha
"Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them." -Charles Simic
"This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness." -Dalai Lama
"I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit." -Kahlil Gibran, "The Voice of the Poet"
"I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end."
-Kahlil Gibran, "Anthem of Humanity"
� God is dead: but considering the state the species man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown.�- Friedrich Nietszche *
� There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.�- Friedrich Nietszche
� Of all that is written I love only what a man has written in blood. Write with blood, and you will experience that the blood is the spirit.�- Friedrich Nietzsche *
� If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.�- Voltaire
� Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.�- Chapman Cohen
� When no one had answers they created God. Now we have most of the answers, and one day we will have all of them, rendering God useless.�- anon
� To live is the most rarest thing in the world. Most people just exist that is all.�- Oscar Wilde
� What is life?-that is: continually shedding something that wants to die.�-?
"Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may."- Plato
"Thinking: The talking of the soul with itself." -Plato
"Out of the Pure I come, Pure Queen of Them Below,
And Eucles and Eubouleus, and other Gods and Daemons:
For I also avow me that I am of your blessed race.
And I have paid the penalty for deeds unrighteous,
Whether it be that Fate laid me low or the Gods Immortal
Or... with star-flung thunderbolt.
I have flown out of the sorrowful weary wheel;
I have passed with eager feet to the Circle desired;
I have sunk beneath the bosom of Despoena, Queen of the Underworld;
I have passed with eager feet to the Circle desired;
And now I come a suppliant to holy Persephone
That of her grace she receive me to the seats of the Hallowed.
Happy and Blessed One, thou shalt be God instead of Mortal."?
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