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“...the test of truth is proof combined with reason.
Philo of Alexandria; Book 30: The Special Laws, IV”
― De specialibus legibus, III-IV
Philo of Alexandria; Book 30: The Special Laws, IV”
― De specialibus legibus, III-IV
“The Wise are Superb Observers of Nature and Rise Superior to the Blows of Fortune”
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“If you go to a tree and start talking, or to a flower, a rose, people will think you are mad. If you go to the church and talk to the cross or to an image, nobody will think you are mad, they will think you are religious.”
― Courage: The Joy of Living Dangerously
― Courage: The Joy of Living Dangerously
“It matters which side we choose. Even if there will never be more light than darkness. Even if there can be no more joy in the galaxy than there is pain. For every action we undertake, for every word we speak, for every life we touch—it matters. I don’t turn toward the light because it means someday I’ll ‘win’ some sort of cosmic game. I turn toward it because it is the light.”
― Master and Apprentice
― Master and Apprentice
“The Intelligible World within the Divine Mind Compared to a Blueprint within the Architect’s Mind
For God, being God, judged in advance that a beautiful copy would never be produced except from a beautiful pattern and that no sense object would be irreproachable that was not modeled after an archetypal and intelligible idea. So when he willed to create this visible world, he first formed the intelligible world, so that he might employ a pattern completely Godlike and incorporeal for the production of the corporeal world, a more recent image of one that was older, which was to comprise as many sensible kinds as there were intelligible ones in the other.”
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For God, being God, judged in advance that a beautiful copy would never be produced except from a beautiful pattern and that no sense object would be irreproachable that was not modeled after an archetypal and intelligible idea. So when he willed to create this visible world, he first formed the intelligible world, so that he might employ a pattern completely Godlike and incorporeal for the production of the corporeal world, a more recent image of one that was older, which was to comprise as many sensible kinds as there were intelligible ones in the other.”
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