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And throughout all Eternity
I forgive you, you forgive me.
As our dear Redeemer said:
This the Wine, and this the Bread.
I have for many years searched for the possibility of letting the viewer "stroll" in the picture, forcing him to forget himself and dissolve into the picture.
Forwarded from Ed under your bed
Vladimirka, by Isaac Levitan
There are and can be only two ways of searching into and discovering truth. The one flies from the senses and particulars to the most general axioms, and from these principles, the truth of which it takes for settled and immovable, proceeds to judgment and to the discovery of middle axioms. And this way is now in fashion. The other derives axioms from the senses and particulars, rising by a gradual and unbroken ascent, so that it arrives at the most general axioms last of all.

This is the true way, but as yet untried.
forty million reasons, not a single excuse
If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son.
When it is realized that this can mean that the group is being led by an individual whose qualification for the job is that his personality has been obliterated, an automaton, ‘an individual who has lost his distinctiveness’, but who yet is so suffused by the emotions of the basic-assumption group that he carries all the prestige one would like to believe was the especial perquisite of the work-group leader, it becomes possible to explain some of the disasters into which groups have been led by leaders whose qualifications for the post seem, when the emotions prevalent at their prime have died down, to be devoid of substance.
political power is precisely the official expression of antagonism in civil society
At chess, sitting at the pear tree's shade
Your favoured tactic was to wear the opponent down
The enemy who drove you from your books
Will not be worn down by the likes of us.
To be sure, justice and virtue were precisely what the sophists' education sought to inculcate too. But Socrates had uncovered the real content and dogma of their new ethos. For the sophists, justice is only the conventions of the weak which protect the interests of the latter. For the sophists, ethical principles are no longer valid in themselves but only as a form of our mutual "keeping an eye" on one another. The "just" is that by means of which one person can assert himself against another with help from everyone else and, as such, it is adhered to only out of mutual distrust and fear.

It is not the justice intrinsic and internal to me myself.
I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.
MY Spectre around me night and day
Like a wild beast guards my way;
My Emanation far within
Weeps incessantly for my sin.
What good, after all, is being right unless it allows you to do wrong?
For this is an experience which is characteristic of a philosopher, this wondering: this is where philosophy begins and nowhere else. And the man who made Iris the child of Thaumas was perhaps no bad genealogist
The charm of knowledge would be small, were it not much shame has to be overcome on the way to it.
One should part from life as Ulysses parted from Nausicaa-blessing it rather than in love with it.