There is an idea that you can take the spiritual teachings of a religion outside of a religion and practice them; these… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
Can anyone be so foolish as to believe that there are men whose feet are higher than their heads, or places where… — Lactantius Copy Share Image
As to the fable that there are Antipodes, that is to say, men on the opposite side of the earth where the… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Asceticism, it is evident, has a double motivation. If men and women torment their bodies, it is not only because they hope… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The Americans make associations to give entertainment, to found seminaries, to build inns, to construct churches, to diffuse books, to send missionaries… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
We should hold day with the Antipodes, If you would walk in absence of the sun. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Mr Earbrass stands on the terrace at twilight. It is bleak; it is cold; and the virtue has gone out of everything.… — Edward Gorey Copy Share Image
The moral earth, too, is round! The moral earth, too, has its antipodes! The antipodes, too, have their right to exist! There… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Most thoughts are only profiles of thoughts. They must be inverted and synthesized with their antipodes. Thus many philosophical writings become very… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
To live in any true sense of the word is to reject others; to accept them, one must be able to renounce,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The disc, being flat, has no real horizon. Any adventurous sailor who got funny ideas from staring at eggs and oranges for… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image