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- Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
- Arthur Shopenhauer
- Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there.
- Mohammed Neguib
- Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority--literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.
- Ignazio Silone, The God That Failed (1950)
- Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons.
It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth. - Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892), Song of the Open Road
- Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people. When the creative impulse cannot flourish, when it cannot freely select its methods and objects, when it is deprived of spontaneity, then society severs the root of art.
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy
- The mind has a thousand eyes.
And the heart but one; Yet the life of a whole life dies When love is done. - Francis William Bourdillon
- The mind cannot long act the role of the heart.
- Francois de la Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
- The weather-cock on the church spire, though made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm-wind if it... did not understand the noble art of turning to every wind.
- Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856)
- The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers.
- James Baldwin (1924 - 1987)
- We must learn not to disassociate the airy flower from the earthy root, for the flower that is cut off from its root fades, and its seeds are barren, whereas the root, secure in mother earth, can produce flower after flower and bring their fruit to maturity.
- Kabbalah
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