Mircea

“Only for you, children of doctrine & learning, have we written this work. Examine this book, ponder the meaning we have dispersed in various places & gathered again; what we have concealed in one place we have disclosed in another, that it may be understood by your wisdom.”
― Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim, De Occulta Philosophia

“Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.”
― Voltaire

“Just when the gods had ceased to be, and the Christ had not yet come, there was a unique moment in history, between Cicero and Marcus Aurelius, when man stood alone.”
― Gustave Flaubert, The Letters, 1830-1880

“Why should man expect his prayer for mercy to be heard by What is above him when he shows no mercy to what is under him?”
― Pierre Troubetzkoy