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Sheds an incredible scholarly light on the historical basis of Orthodox Christianity, which was in constant battle with Gnosticism on accusations that intuitive spiritual knowledge consisted of heresy, while only the Apostles held spiritual validity. The Orthodox adopted doctrines into their canon and excluded others based on a hierarchical power structure that best served the early rise of the Catholic church.

Take me back to 1500's Florence

Randomly wanted to learn about Michelangelo, and this has been on my shelf forever. I'm hooked!

This prose is incredible

Some of the difficulty with quantum mechanics has to reside in the problem of coming to terms with the simple fact that there is no such thing as information in and of itself independent of the apparatus necessary to its perception. There were no starry skies prior to the first sentient and ocular being to behold them. Before that all was blackness and silence.
And yet it moved.
And yet.

You will never know what the world is made of. The only thing that's certain is that it's not made of the world. As you close upon some mathematical description of reality you can't help but lose what is being described. Every inquiry displaces what is addressed. A moment in time is a fact, not a possibility. The world will take your life. But above all and lastly the world does not know that you are here.

Queequeg just decided not to die yet because he had unfinished business on shore. Legend

"Did he know her or didn't he? He knew her, of course he did, it was just that sometimes reality, the same little reality that served to anchor reality, seemed to fade around the edges, as if the passage of time had a porous effect on things, and blurred and made more insubstantial what was itself already, by its very nature, insubstantial and satisfactory and real."