[http://idler.co.uk/idle-idols/idle-idols-lin-yutang/ Article in The Idler Magazine] - broken link, see: [https://web.archive.org/web/20090718214232/http://idler.co.uk/idle-idols/idle-idols-lin-yutang Internet Archive copy] instead

Is it reasonable to assume a purposiveness in all the parts of nature and to deny it to the whole?

El filósofo que adopta nociones científicas predeterminó sus conclusiones.

There is no original truth, only original error.

Carlos Alazraqui — Bane

Carlos Gómez - Miguel

Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else.

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

The greatest danger, that of losing one's own self, may pass off as quietly as if it were nothing; every other loss, that of an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife etc., is sure to be noticed.

Maybe if I stick close to the big guy, maybe those pests will stop shooting at us.

[http://www.humanistictexts.org/al_ma'arri.htm Al-Maʿarri's poems (in English)]

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

[http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9011433/Avicenna Avicenna] an article by Seyyed Hossein Nasr on Encyclopedia Britannica Online

Those also who are remarkable for having led holy lives are released from this earthly prison, and go to their pure home which is above, and dwell in the purer earth; and those who have duly purified themselves with philosophy live henceforth altogether without the body, in mansions fairer far than these...

If we consider him [Euclid] as meaning to be what his commentators have taken him to be, a model of the most unscrupulous formal rigour, we can deny that he has altogether succeeded, though we admit that he made the nearest approach.

I learned from that time period that, even though the past is always kind of right there, you can decide to start over with a loved one," Liz tells OWN. "I lost my mom, and we did not have enough connection at the time, and I was not going to let that happen again.