“you are boys, your God is a woman. If you are women, your God is a boy. If you are men, your God is a maiden. The God is where you are not. So: it is wise that one has a God; this serves for your perfection. A maiden is the pregnant future. A boy is the engendering future. A woman is: having given birth. A man is: having engendered.”
― The Red Book: A Reader's Edition
― The Red Book: A Reader's Edition
“mathematician Andreas Speiser therefore calls “fratres in Platone” all those who in religious questions follow not faith alone, but the scientific conscience, the “best legacy of the Hellenes”, and who limit their statements accordingly. There aren’t many of them, but they wander through the ages, “a small band of honest folk, the salt of the earth, occasionally protesting, often paying for their courage with their life”.”
― The Myth of Meaning
― The Myth of Meaning
“equivalent to nonsuffering; yet the resilience of the self-aware and self-transforming consciousness can fortify us against the perils of the irrational and the rational, against the world within and the world without.”
― The Myth of Meaning
― The Myth of Meaning
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