A curated selection of narrative threads, episodes, lyrics, excerpts, and quotes from across the archive.
Selected quotes from the archive.
Today’s scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments and they wander off through equation after equation and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
All truth passes through three stages.
First, it is ridiculed.
Second, it is violently opposed.
Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Unknown
There are great ideas undiscovered – breakthroughs available to those who can remove one of truths protective layers.
…it is still remarkably difficult to say categorically
whether the earth moves…
With a wave of his hand,
he had made the Earth a planet and set it spinning.
Dava Sobel
A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos
The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him.
It takes only one independent and effective
rational mind to change the paradigms of understanding
for the rest of humankind.
Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?
As children, we all live in a world of imagination,
of fantasy, and for some of us that world of make-
believe continues into adulthood.
The key to the Hermetic rebirth resided in attainment of gnosis, spiritual knowledge to free the mind from the bonds of material perception.
When the human race learns to read
the language of symbolism,
a great veil will fall from
the eyes of men.
The learned man understands the ignorant for he was once ignorant himself. The ignorant man does not understand the learned for he has never been learned himself.
No one is dumb who is curious.
The people who don’t ask questions
remain clueless throughout their lives.
We accept the reality of the world with which we’re presented.
