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You offer your pupils the appearance of wisdom, not true wisdom, for they will read many things without instruction and will therefore seem to know many things, when they are for the most part ignorant and hard to get along with, since they are not wise, but only appear wise. - Plato, Phaedrus 275a,b.

"When we consider what religion is for mankind, and what science is, it is no exaggeration to say that the future course of history depends upon the decision of this generation as to the relations between them."

Alfred North Whitehead, 1925

Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell - Authors of Principia Mathematica, the landmark work in formal logic - showing how the truths of mathematics could be derived from logic - first published in three volumes in 1910, 1912 and 1913.

Human beings have always built the tallest building in their towns or cities as a symbol of the dominant theme or myth of their culture.

This world is a place of business. What an infinite bustle! I am awaked almost every night by the panting of the locomotive. It interrupts my dreams. There is no sabbath. It would be glorious to see mankind at leisure for once. It is nothing but work, work, work. I cannot easily buy a blank-book to write thoughts in; they are commonly ruled for dollars and cents. An Irishman, seeing me making a minute in the fields, took it for granted that I was calculating my wages. - LIFE WITHOUT PRINCIPLE, by Henry David Thoreau, 1863

State Street Bank - Photo by Ed Reither

"The sturdy capitalist, no matter how deep and square on blocks of Quincy granite he lays the foundations of his banking-house or Exchange, must set it, at last, not on a cube corresponding to the angles of his structure, but on a mass of unknown materials and solidity, red-hot or white-hot, perhaps at the core, which rounds off to an almost perfect sphericity, and lies floating in soft air, and goes spinning away, dragging bank and banker with it at a rate of thousands of miles the hour, he knows not whither" - Ralph Waldo Emerson, A Lecture read at the Masonic Temple, Boston,1842

The Center of the World

Rare books - Houghton Library, Harvard University - Photo by Ed Reither
Rare book shelf - Houghton Library, Harvard

Society is in our day the prey of a deadly disease, of a moral canker, which threatens it with destruction. This disease is materialism.

Louis Figuier, 1872

"Human knowing is now devoted to analytical reductionism, or the process of reducing everything to the individual human being, to human processes, to humankind in the lowest, most rudimentary or material sense."

Adi Da Samraj

Adi Da Samraj, 2006

he Memorial Church of Harvard University - photo - Ed Reither Taken from Houghton and Lamont Library yard.
Memorial Church - Harvard - photo by Ed Reither
Mahakala

Oṃ Hayagriva Waga Ahbiditsa Ah! 

kālo’asmi, lokakśayakṛt pravṛddhaḥ lokān samāhartum iha pravṛttaḥ

(I am time, the cause of world-destruction, mighty; come here to annihilate the worlds.)

Verse 11.32 of the Bhagavad-gita

(misquoted by Oppenheimer)

O my friend, why do you who are a citizen of the great and mighty and sophospolis (city) care so much about laying up the greatest amount of money and honor [tīmē] and reputation, and so little about sophiā and truth [alēthēs] and the greatest improvement of the soul [psūkhē].

Plato, The Apology of Socrates

Light Bearers

“…like Moses, we shall prove entirely faith­ful, most sacred theology will supervene to inspire us with redoubled ecstasy. For, raised to the most eminent height of the­ology, whence we shall be able to measure with the rod of indivisible eternity all things that are and that have been; and, grasping the primordial beauty of things, like the seers of Phoebus, we shall become the winged lovers of theology. And at last, smitten by the ineffable love as by a sting, and, like the Seraphim, born outside our­selves, filled with the godhead, we shall be, no longer ourselves, but the very One who made us."

Oration on the Dignity of Man (1486) by Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494)

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