[http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9049584/al-Maarri Profile in Encyclopædia Britannica]

[http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/ethics/de-beauvoir/index.htm Simone de Beauvoir Archive at Marxists.org]

In the religiosity of Zen Buddhism, demythologization of the mythical and existentialization of the scientific belong to one and the same process.

The thing you are accustomed to calling your body, he suggests, is only a cooler and denser declension of your true body.

[http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/beauvoir/ "Simone de Beauvoir" by Debra Bergoffen at Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy]

Science leads to great achievements, which, quite rightly, fill of joy those who seek the truth, but if pursued, teaches us that we must seek other sources of ultimate truth and find answers to existential questions about the meaning of life and the mystery of death.