COLECCIÓN DE PENSAMIENTOS Y FRASES DEL GRAN INTELECTO …con algunas anotaciones por G.Antuan *idioma: español e inglés

COLLECTION OF THOUGHTS AND SAYINGS FROM THOSE OF GREAT INTELLECT …with some notes by G.Antuan*language: Spanish and English

=============================================“DNA produced the brain, the brain understands DNA, so DNA eventually came to understand itself.”Herb Cohen=============================================

“No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world,”

Robin Williams

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“Listen,smile, agree and then do whatever the fuck you were going to do anyway.”Jddady Rivera – friend

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“We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.” 

“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.” 

“Some lose all mind and become soul,insane.some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual.some lose both and become accepted” 

“Find what you love and let it kill you.”

Charles Bukowski=============================================

UN CUENTO CORTO:

http://www.amazon.com/Explorando-misterio-tierra-Spanish-Edition-ebook/dp/B00J3ECSSG

“What really separates a machine from a human is the purpose and DESIRE to do something.  A computer isn't going to go out of its way to do anything because it doesn't have a personal reason to do so.  We get up in the morning because we need to eat.  We need to eat because we're hungry.  We're hungry because we're low on energy.  We're low on energy because we need it to live.  Our brains evolved to put reason and purpose into life, giving us willingness to live.  A machine doesn't care about anything because it is incapable of sustaining itself.” Comment on youtube video: A new equation for intelligence  

Peter Schmidt – robot programmer

============================================= “Te irá bien, porque tú te preparas para lo peor.”

Marta Suárez – mi tía=============================================

“It is easiest to begin by considering an imaginary example”

“[…] it was forced upon us by the experimental facts.”

“Lacking evidence we had become overconfident in the generality of some of our basic ideas.”

“what is conspicuously lacking is a broad framework of ideas in which to interpret these various concepts.” 1979 Scientific American

“[…] we shall have to present a tentative scheme, otherwise no discussion is possible.”

Francis Crick – Co-discoverer (with James Watson) of the actual structure of the molecule of life: DNA

============================================="The better you get, the harder you [should] work. You can't say, well I've got it made..."

Albert King – Blues guitarist and singer.=============================================

“Know what you are doing, avoid get-rich-quick schemes, do your homework, don’t bet the ranch.”

Leon Black=============================================

“No one being can be fully enlightened unless everyone can be enlightened.”

A bodhisattvahttp://nexusilluminati.blogspot.com/2011/07/manifestation-manifesto-creating-world.html

“Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith… You’ve got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don’t settle.”

“The people that have really made the contributions have been the thinkers and the doers; it’s very easy somebody for to say ‘oh I’ve thought of this three years before’, but usually when you dig a little deeper you find that the people that really did it were also the people that really worked through the hard intellectual problems as well.”

"You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something -- your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. Because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you off the well-worn path, and that will make all the difference."

"Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything -- all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure -- these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart."

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most importantly, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”

Steve Jobs

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“Life adds information to matter, in other words…structure. […] By adding information to matter, it gives it a function that’s different than without that structure.”

“They didn’t know. This is not for lack of information; it’s a lack of integration.”

“Learning about the natural world is one thing; learning from the natural world…that’s the switch, that’s the profound switch. What they realized was that the answers to their questions were everywhere, they just needed to change the lenses with which they saw the world.”

Janine Benyus: BiologistExcerpts from Ted talk: Biomimicry's surprising lessons from nature's engineers

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"The pattern, and it alone, brings into being and causes to pass away and confers purpose, that is to say, value and meaning, on all there is. To understand is to perceive patterns. (…) To make intelligible is to reveal the basic pattern.”

 Isaiah Berlin, British social and political theorist, philosopher and historian, (1909-1997), The proper study of

mankind: an anthology of essays, Chatto & Windus, 1997, p. 129.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------“[…] the question arises as to why the world makes sense and there can only be two solutions to that question. One that it’s just luck, that the universe just happens to be systematically sensible for no good reason. The other option is that intelligence lies at the heart of the universe, that nature is intelligently configured. […] The idea that nature is intelligently configured is not so outrageous at it seems. […]intelligence is a fundamental aspect of reality, evolution being one particular way in which this intelligence unfolds its creative potential.

Just because evolution happens over millions of years does not mean that evolution lacks the characteristics of intelligence. […] the duration of time over which a process proceeds is irrelevant in assessing whether or not that process is intelligent. In terms of its achievements, evolution is a competent design force to be reckoned with, regardless of the duration over which it occurs. More to the point, the universe is clearly optimized to fulfill such a creative imperative. In a naturally intelligent universe, life and consciousness were always poised to emerge.”

The universe is a system of self-organizing intelligence.

“Natural intelligence unites all and everything.”

“It’s hard to imagine the sheer amount of natural intelligence that is destroyed when we bulldoze our way through wilderness.”

“Travel they say, broadens the mind, it certainly makes us aware of the diversity of the Earth’s living surface.”

“The original formation of DNA and its progressive evolution are written into the very laws of nature. The universe is quite literally a life support system, even a consciousness support system. These are facts with many profound implications.”

Simon G. Powell

G.Antuan note: Achievement is clear sign of intelligence, regardless of the time it took to get there.-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

"Having to deal with any kind of suffering is crappy and it sucks, but there is so much we can learn from it, there is so much that we can learn about ourselves when we reach these

darker places." internet post 

By Ally -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Reporter asks: Fidel…are you communist?Fidel answers: “Wait for the history…the history will say what we are.”

Fidel Castro-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

“The sky is filled with good and bad that mortals never know.” Song: The battle of evermore

Led Zeppelin-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

La gran mayoría de los fracasos son gracias a nunca intentarlo, arriesgate si total, la vida está hecha para trascender

Jonathan Joyz Guzman – amigo, colega-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Women don't care "What" you do, or how you do it... they care that you are living fully, and are walking in your purpose. No bars to be set, no comparison, all that matters is love and commitment...every man has incredible gifts to give to the world!

Justin Baldoni-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------“We are luminous star dust beings, the coming together of space, time, energy, information and matter that has become self-aware. We are literally the eyes of the universe looking at itself.”

“We are the evolutionary impulse of the universe to its next stage of evolution.”

“Healing is nothing but the restoration of the memory of wholeness.”

Deepak Chopra-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------From my own being, and from the dependency I find in myself and my ideas, I do, by an act of reason, necessarily infer the existence of a God, and of all created things in the mind of God.

The eye by long use comes to see even in the darkest cavern: and there is no subject so obscure but we may discern some glimpse of truth by long poring on it.

That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into the head of mortal man.

God is a being of transcendent and unlimited perfections: his nature therefore is incomprehensible to finite spirits.

How often must I repeat, that I know or am conscious of my own being; and that I myself am not my ideas, but somewhat else, a thin king, active principle that perceives, knows, wills, and operates about ideas?

Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few. 

The real essence, the internal qualities, and constitution of even the meanest object, is hid from our view; something there is in every drop of water, every grain of sand, which it is beyond the power of human understanding to fathom or comprehend. But it is evident ... that we are influenced by false principles to that degree as to mistrust our senses, and think we know nothing of those things which we perfectly comprehend.

That the discovery of this great truth, which lies so near and obvious to the mind, should be attained to by the reason of so very few, is a

sad instance of the stupidity and inattention of men, who, though they are surrounded with such clear manifestations of the Deity, are yet so little affected by them, that they seem as it were blinded with excess of light.

George Berkeley -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

“Never believe fully in anybody else’s B.S. I don’t care if it’s Rajneesh, The Pope, L. Ron Hubbard, Al Gore, George Bush or I don’t care who it is, don’t swallow all of their belief system totally. Don’t accept all of their bullshit, all their B.S.

The second rule is like unto to the first: Don’t believe totally in your own B.S. Which means that, as Bucky Fuller said, “The universe consists of non-simultaneously apprehended events”. NON-SIMULTANEOUSLY. The universe consists of NON-SIMULTANEOUSLY apprehended events. Which means any belief system or reality tunnel you’ve got right now is gonna have to be revised and updated as you continue to apprehend new events later in time. Not simultaneously.

This is the natural functioning of the human brain. It’s the way children’s brains perform before they’re wrecked by the school system. It’s the way the minds of all great scientists and artists work. But once you have a belief system, everything that comes in either gets ignored if it doesn’t fit the belief system, or gets distorted enough so that it can fit into the belief system. You gotta be continually revising your map of the world.”

~Robert Anton Wilson-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------"Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance." "The true God is a living, intelligent and powerful being."

I could wish they would consider how contrary it is to God's purpose that the truth of his religion should be as obvious and perspicuous to all men as a mathematical demonstration. Tis enough that it is able to move the assent of those which he hath chosen; and for the rest who are so incredulous, it is just that they should be permitted to dye in their sins. Here then is the wisdom of God, that he hath so framed the Scriptures as to discern between the good and the bad, that they should be demonstration to the one and foolishness to the other.

“God made the world & governs it invisibly, & hath commanded us to love honour & worship him & no other God but him & to do it without making any image of him, & not to name him idly & without reverence, & to honour our parents masters & governours, & love our neighbours as our selves, & to be temperate, modest, humble, just, & peaceable, & to be merciful even to bruit beasts.”

Opposite to the first is Atheism in profession & Idolatry in practise. Atheism is so senseless & odious to mankind that it never had many professors. Can it be by accident that all birds beasts & men have their right side & left side alike shaped (except in their bowells) & just two eyes & no more on either side the face & just two ears on either side the head & a nose with two holes & no more between the eyes & one mouth under the nose & either two fore leggs or two wings or two arms on the sholders & two leggs on the hipps one on either side & no more? Whence arises this uniformity in all their outward shapes but from the counsel & contrivance of an Author? Whence is it that the eyes of all sorts of living creatures are transparent to the very bottom & the only transparent members in the body, having on the outside an hard transparent skin, & within transparent juyces with a crystalline Lens in the middle & a pupil before the Lens all of them so truly shaped & fitted for vision, that no Artist can mend them? Did blind chance know that there was light & what was its refraction & fit the eys of all creatures after the most curious manner to make use of it? These & such like considerations always have & ever will prevail with man kind to beleive that there is a being who made all things & has all things in his power & who is therfore to be feared.

Isaac Newton – Father of classical physics-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

“Watch out for intellect,because it knows so much it knows nothingand leaves you hanging upside down,mouthing knowledge as your heartfalls out of your mouth.”

“Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.”

“The joy that isn't shared dies young.”

Anne Sexton-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

You must have a plan, if you don’t have a plan you will become somebody else’s plan.

Terence McKenna-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------“Entender las cosas y tratar de explicarlas es sinónimo de bichería y decir Dios te bendiga es sinónimo de virtud. q clase de cojones.”

Hermes Ayala – periodista, poeta, artista, etc.-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------“The […] Eastern understanding and shamanic understanding that it’s all interwoven […], that from matter to spirit it’s a continuum.”

Alex Gray - painter-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

Everything is relative, and only that is absolute.

The purpose of any science is the forecasting.

To understand a science it is necessary to know its history.

Auguste Comte-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.

The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.

Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment... not authority.

In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!

The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely.

“Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, whether you like it or not.”

“I am too much of a skeptic to deny the possibility of anything...”

“We live in a world which is full of misery and ignorance, and the plain duty of each and all of us is to try to make the little corner he can influence somewhat less miserable and somewhat less ignorant than it was before he entered.”

“There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued.”

“Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say that he knows or believes that for which he has no grounds for professing to believe.”

“Sit down before fact like a little child, and be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads or you shall learn nothing.”

“The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error, but in their readiness to acknowledge these inevitable lapses.”

“To a clear eye the smallest fact is a window through which the infinite may be seen.”

“The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.”

"I do not advocate burning your ship to get rid of the cockroaches".

Thomas Huxley – (4 May 1825 – 29 June 1895) was an English biologist (comparative anatomist), known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. He coined the word agnostic, thus he was truly the first agnostic. He maintained that he was an agnostic, not an atheist. He was, however, a lifelong and determined opponent of almost all organized religion throughout his life. Huxley's dismissal of positivism severely damaged Comte's ideas in Britain.

[Although Huxley was a brilliant man, he didn’t seem to have grasped the importance of illusion in humans. It is my view, that he ignored the fact that there are two realities: the objective (natural laws, empirical facts, etc.) and subjective (happiness, friendship, love, trust, hate, honor, beauty, etc.). Ignoring the subjective reality we ignore a significant portion of what it means to be human. We see this in his following quotes:

"Of moral purpose I see not a trace in nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture."

"The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction."

Although these two quotes are objectively true, these are subjectively incorrect and turns us sentient beings into mere machines.] G.Antuan----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------“If a past phenomenon can be understood as the result of a process now acting in time and space, do not invent an extinct or unknown cause as its explanation.”

"We should try to explain the past by causes now in operation without inventing extra, fancy, or unknown causes, however plausible in logic, if available processes suffice."

“[…]there is only one way in which two things are equal, but there are an infinity of ways in which they could be supposed different."

Stephen J. Gould – excellent describing what is known as the scientific principle of parsimony or Occam's razor.

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“A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.”

Roald Dahl – prolific writer -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------“You wouldn't abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn't control the winds.” ― Utopia

Better 'tis to be fortunate than wise!— "The Words of Fortune to the People" (c.1504)

What you cannot turn to good, you must at least make as little bad as you can.— Utopia, Bk. 1. (1516)

I never saw fool yet that thought himself other than wise.— A Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation (1534)

“[how can anyone] be silly enough to think himself better than other people, because his clothes are made of finer woolen thread than theirs. After all, those fine clothes were once worn by a sheep, and they never turned it into anything better than a sheep.” ― Utopia

“A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.” ― Utopia

“For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.” ― Utopia

“Instead of inflicting these horrible punishments, it would be far more to the point to provide everyone with some means of livelihood, so that nobody's under the frightful necessity of becoming first a thief and then a corpse.” ― Utopia

“What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it.”

“It's wrong to deprive someone else of a pleasure so that you can enjoy one yourself, but to deprive yourself of a pleasure so that you can add to someone else's enjoyment is an act of humanity by which you always gain more than you lose.”

“The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden.”

“What is deferred is not avoided.”

“Kindness and good nature unite men more effectually and with greater strength than any agreements whatsoever, since thereby the engagements of men's hearts become stronger than the bond and obligation of words.”

“God said, "Thou shalt not kill" - does the theft of a little money make it quite all right for us to do so? If it's said that this commandment applies only to illegal killing, what's to prevent human beings from similarly agreeing among themselves to legalize certain types of rape, adultery, or perjury? Considering that God has forbidden us even to kill ourselves, can we really believe that purely human arrangements for the regulation of mutual slaughter are enough, without any divine authority, to exempt executioners from the sixth commandment? Isn't that like saying that this particular commandment has no more validity than human laws allow it? - in which case the principle can be extended indefinitely, until in all spheres of life human beings decide just how far God's commandments may conveniently be observed.”

“Anticipated spears wound less.”

“love rules without rules”

“One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.”

Thomas More

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John Lennon was asked what he wanted to be in life. He said, "Happy"...... They said, "No, you don't understand the question" and he said, "No, you don't understand life."

John Lennon-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

On risking his life by going back to Jamaica for a peace concert during heavy political instability he said:“[…] my life not important to me. Other people life important. My life is only important if me can help plenty people. If my life is just me and my own security, then me don’t want it. My life is for people, as many is.”

Interviewer said: They could try to shoot at you againBob responded: “Yeah…what is to be must be.”

“I don’t really have no ambition you know. I really one thing I’d really like to see happen, I’d like to see mankind live together, black, white, Chinese, anyone. That’s all.

Bob Marley----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.” 

“We must stop confusing religion and spirituality. Religion is a set of rules, regulations and rituals created by humans, which was suppose to help people grow spiritually. Due to human imperfection religion has become corrupt, political, divisive and a tool for power struggle. Spirituality is not theology or ideology. It is simply a way of life, pure and original as was given by the Most High of Creation. Spirituality is a network linking us to the Most High, the universe, and each other…” 

“Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned, everywhere is war and until there are no longer first-class and second-class citizens of any nation, until the color of a man's skin is of no more significance than the color of his eyes. And until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race, there is war. And until that day, the dream of lasting peace, world citizenship, rule of international morality, will remain but a fleeting illusion to be pursued, but never attained... now everywhere is war.”(Popularized by Bob Marley in the song War)

“Education develops the intellect; and the intellect distinguishes man from other creatures. It is education that enables man to harness nature and utilize her resources for the well-being and improvement of his life. The key for the betterment and completeness of modern living is education. But, ' Man cannot live by bread alone '. Man, after all, is also composed of intellect and soul. Therefore, education in general, and higher education in particular, must aim to provide, beyond the physical, food for the intellect and soul. That education which ignores man's intrinsic nature, and neglects his intellect and reasoning power can not be considered true education.”

“Any who may wish to profit himself alone from the knowledge given him, rather than serve others through the knowledge he has gained from learning, is betraying knowledge and rendering it worthless.”

"Leadership does not mean domination. The world is always well supplied with people who wish to rule and dominate others. The true leader is of a different sort: he seeks effective activity which has a truly beneficent purpose. He inspires others to follow in his wake, and holding aloft the torch of wisdom, leads the way for society to realize its genuinely great aspirations."

"Of all the good things of the world which are accomplished by the wisdom of men and which can only be realized by that wisdom, health is the divine gift which is to be found above all by those who take care to guard it well." 

"From truth alone is born liberty and only an educated people can consider themselves as really free and master of their fate."

"There is no protection from the demand that a man's worth be assessed by his achievements."

 Haile Selassie I-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

The problem with experiments has always been that human beings make the decisions on whether or not the animals have benefitted from the treatment. 

There exists in society a very special class of persons that I have always referred to as the Believers. These are folks who have chosen to accept a certain religion, philosophy, theory, idea or notion and cling to that belief regardless of any evidence that might, for anyone else, bring it into doubt. They are the ones who encourage and support the fanatics and the frauds of any given age. No amount of evidence, no matter how strong, will bring them any enlightenment. They are the sheep who beg to be fleeced and butchered, and who will battle fiercely to preserve their right to be victimized… the U.S. Patent Office handles an endless succession of inventors who still produce perpetual-motion machines that don't work, but no number of idle flywheels will convince these zealots of their folly; dozens of these patent applications flow in every year. In ashrams all over the world, hopping devotees of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi will never abandon their goal of blissful levitation of their bodies by mind power, despite bruises and sprains aplenty suffered as they bounce about on gym mats like demented (though smiling) frogs, trying to get airborne. Absolutely nothing will discourage them.

“I want to be, if I can, as sure of the world--the real world--around me as is possible. Now, you can only attain that to a certain degree, but I want the greatest degree of control. I've never involved myself in narcotics of any kind, I don't smoke, and I don't drink because that can easily just fuzz the edges of my rationality--fuzz the edges of my reasoning powers--and I want to be as aware as I possibly can. That means giving up a lot of fantasies that might be comforting in some ways, but I'm willing to give that up in order to live in an actually real world, or as close as I can get to it.” 

"People who are smart get into Mensa. People who are really smart look around and leave."

Heroin also makes people feel better, but I wouldn't recommend using heroin.

I have been through similar situations where believers will insist on believing despite the evidence no matter how strong that is.

James Randi 

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"The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider Freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have less, we buy more, but enjoy less. We have bigger houses and smaller families, more conveniences, but less time. We have more degrees but less sense, more knowledge, but less judgment, more experts, yet more problems, more medicine, but less wellness. 

We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too little, watch TV too much, and pray too seldom. 

We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often.

We've learned how to make a living, but not a life. We've added years to life not life to years. We've been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet a new neighbor. We conquered outer space but not inner space. We've done larger things, but not better things. 

We've cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul. We've conquered the atom, but not our prejudice. We write more, but learn less. We plan more, but accomplish less. We've learned to rush, but not to wait. We build more computers to hold more information, to produce more copies than ever, but we communicate less and less. 

These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion, big men and small character, steep profits and shallow relationships. These are the days of two incomes but more divorce, fancier houses, but broken homes. These are days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throwaway morality, one night stands,

overweight bodies, and pills that do everything from cheer, to quiet, to kill. It is a time when there is much in the showroom window and nothing in the stockroom. A time when technology can bring this letter to you, and a time when you can choose either to share this insight, or to just hit delete. 

Remember to spend some time with your loved ones, because they are not going to be around forever.

Remember, say a kind word to someone who looks up to you in awe, because that little person soon will grow up and leave your side. 

Remember, to give a warm hug to the one next to you, because that is the only treasure you can give with your heart and it doesn't cost a cent.

Remember, to say, 'I love you' to your partner and your loved ones, but most of all mean it. A kiss and an embrace will mend hurt when it comes from deep inside of you. 

Remember to hold hands and cherish the moment for someday that person will not be there again.

Give time to love, give time to speak! And give time to share the precious thoughts in your mind.”

George Carlin – Enlightened and enlightening comedian-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

I'd always thought that fate was something unchangeable: fixed for every one of us at birth, and as constant as the circuit of the stars. But I suddenly realised that life is stranger and more beautiful than that. The truth is that, no matter what kind of game you find yourself in, no matter how good or bad the luck, you can change your life completely with a single thought or a single act of love. (p.932-3 Shantaram 2003 novel)

What we call cowardice is often just another name for being taken by surprise, and courage is seldom any better than simply being well prepared. (p.70 Shantaram 2003 novel)

Gregory David Roberts

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And as I continued to muse on the possibilities, I realized that it didn’t really matter. And that was what mattered. You see, the real lesson from the study that anonymous genetic identities could somehow be coupled to our real ones is that … genetic identity doesn’t matter. And the reason it doesn’t matter is because our real identities … don’t matter much anymore.

“This is not the start of a particularly bad and politically incorrect joke, although it should be. Rather,[…]”

“The problem is not that our genomes could be identified or stolen. The problem is that our genetic identities are now just another piece of us that isn’t us anymore, it’s a classifier for the person-formerly-known-by-the-mole-on-their-chin. Increasingly, we are classified, not identified. As consumers, as taxpayers, and now as meatpuppet healthcare objects we are the sum of our enumerated parts.”

Andrew Ellington

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"The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease."

Thomas Edison

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------“This is not considered a scientifically valid approach, unless we can prove a causal relationship.  A statistician once showed a correlation between the price of rum in Havana and the wages of Presbyterian Ministers in Massachusetts.”

“This world is full of alarmists who will tell us that there are cancer causing chemicals in the shampoo we use,  that the fire retardant we put in our pillows causes brain tumors,  that the CIA brought down the twin towers,  that doctors already know how to cure cancer but won't tell anybody because it will be bad for business, and that we have very good reasons to be afraid of our governments and leaders.  Yet we are now living longer than we ever have before.  In just about every way that I can think of,  this is a better world than it was when I was a child. And many of us live better than kings lived a century ago.  So let's have some balance.”

“If all the hypochondriacs in the world get together, they can convince each other that whatever they believe is real actually is real. They can form lobby groups.  And then they can influence our laws and regulations. The scientific method has never been more important than it is now.” 

“Proving that something is safe is a different thing from proving that something is harmful.  Safe under what circumstances?”

“Proving something to be safe is very difficult,  especially when the dangers can be subtle and hard to quantify - genetic damage, damage that won't show up for three generations, increased incidence of diseases that didn't even have names a few years ago, increased incidence of diseases that have been invented by the pharmaceutical industry to sell drugs (I've heard that "shyness" is now a "disease" that can be cured with a pill.)  How safe do we need to be?  Or is life,  including the life of our species,  inherently unsafe and we should just accept this fact?” 

David James Scott (Zale R. Dalen) (david@themaninchina.com) – movie director, website designer,  film and video editor,  television producer,   script writer,  boat captain, musician, English teacher in China.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------The spirit of a nation is reflected in its history, its religion, and the degree of its political freedom.

The improvement of individual morality is a matter involving one’s private religion, one’s parents, one’s personal efforts, and one’s individual situation.

- Selected quotes from Prospects for a Folk Religion

Reason is purposive activity.

For the nature of humanity is to impel men to agree with one another, and its very existence lies simply in the explicit realization of a community of conscious life.

- Selected quotes from Preface to the Phenomenology of Spirit

Just as little is seen in pure light as in pure darkness.

Pure Being and pure nothing are, therefore, the same.

Everything is inherently contradictory.Freedom is the truth of necessity.

- Selected quotes from The Science of Logic

It may really be said: You are either a Spinozist or not a philosopher at all.

- Selected quotes from History of Philosophy

The conception and its existence are two sides, distinct yet united, like soul and body. The body is the same life as the soul, and yet the two can be named independently. A soul without a body would not be a living thing, and vice versa. Thus the visible existence of the conception is its body, just as the body obeys the soul which produced it.

Personality implies that as this person: I am completely determined on every side and so finite, yet nonetheless I am simply and solely self-relation, and therefore in finitude I know myself as something infinite, – universal, and free.

I possess my life and my body, like other things, only in so far as my will is in them.

States, nations, and individuals are all the time the unconscious tools of the world mind at work within them.

Each stage of world-history is a necessary moment in the Idea of the World Mind.

Civilized nations are justified in regarding as barbarians those who lag behind them in institutions.

- Selected quotes from Philosophy of Right

For these thousands of years the same Architect has directed the work: and that Architect is the one living Mind whose nature is to think.

Experience is the real author of growth and advance of philosophy.

- Selected quotes from Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences. Introduction.

Spiritual culture, the modern intellect, produces this opposition in man which makes him an amphibious animal, because he now has to live in two worlds which contradict one another.

Art’s vocation is to unveil the truth in the form of sensuous artistic configuration, to set forth the reconciled opposition just mentioned [the common world of earthly temporality, and a realm of thought and freedom], and so to have its end and aim in itself, in this very setting forth and unveiling.

- Selected quotes from Introduction to the Lectures on Aesthetics

The sentiment of art like the religious sentiment, like scientific curiosity, is born of wonder; the man who wonders at nothing lives in a state of imbecility and stupidity.

- Selected quotes from Lectures on Aesthetics: Symbolic Art

By the act of reflection something is altered in the way in which the fact was originally presented in sensation, perception, or conception. Thus, as it appears, an alteration must be interposed before the true nature of the object can be discovered.

- Selected quotes from Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences. Preliminiary Notion

To know what free thought means go to Greek philosophy.

- Selected quotes from Shorter Logic.

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A university degree is no guarantee of happiness or success in personal or professional life. But if you attain a polytechnic education, your mind will be trained in an essential combination of technical and intellectual skills that can shape how you process life in your head.

Part of that skill of using your mind effectively so that you behave in ways conducive to survival is that you must learn how to be adaptable. Equally important is that you must learn genuinely how to welcome change all around you and embrace change in your professional life. 

Woody Goulart – Journalist; he is a thought leader and innovative pro in both traditional and digital media public relations and strategic communications management. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

“[There is] no ethnic cleansing without poetry. You need to arouse people to do something as terrible as ethnic cleansing. You need some kind of ethnic national myth which gives to people the strength, their own pervert strength to kill other people. For this you need something spiritual…poetry.”

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“Evolution is a mayor thread in the larger tapestry that I like to call…reality!”Lewis Black - comedian

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------“The fact that there are imbalances is not itself a concern, the concern is the direction of the imbalances”

Prof. Joseph Stiglitz – Columbia University-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

“If you permit your thoughts to dwell on evil you yourself will become ugly. Look only for the good in everything so you absorb the quality of beauty.”

“You must not let your life run in the ordinary way; do something that nobody else has done, something that will dazzle the world. Show that God's creative principle works in you.”

“There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.”

“The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.”

“Persistence guarantees that results are inevitable.”

“Every morning I offer my body, my mind and any ability that I posses, to be used by Thee, O infinite creator, in whatever way Thou dost choose to express Thyself through me. I know that all work is Thy work, and that no task is too difficult or too menial when offered to Thee in loving service.”

“Every tomorrow is determined by every today.”

“The entire universe is God's cosmic motion picture, and that individuals are merely actors in the divine play who change roles through reincarnation; mankind's deep suffering is rooted in identifying too closely with one's current role, rather than with the movie's director, or God.”

Paramahansa Yogananda –

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“I’m not the sort of person who likes a lot of competition. I particularly don’t like the feeling that if I wasn’t around doing certain work, it wouldn’t make any difference. If it’s going to be done anyway, what’s the point, right?”

Do you ever grow weary of it? “No. No. Because this isn’t a monolithic

question where there’s nothing interesting until you get to the end. In

fact, the question breaks down into maybe a dozen smaller questions.

Each has interesting parts.”

Jack W. Szostak - biochemical researcher; 2009 Nobel Prize in medicine

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------“[…]experimental evidence, which consists of a large number of long and beautifully interwoven series of breeding experiments of truly unprecedented ingenuity on the one hand and of direct observations[…]”

Erwin Schrodinger (1887 – 1961) - Austrian physicist and theoretical biologist who was one of the fathers of quantum mechanics, and is famed for a number of important contributions to physics, especially the Schrödinger equation (the wave equation; describes how the quantum state or wave function of a physical system changes in time), for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1933. In 1935, after extensive correspondence with personal friend Albert Einstein, he proposed the Schrödinger's cat thought experiment. In 1944, he wrote What is Life?, which contains a discussion of negentropy and the concept of a complex molecule with the genetic code for living organisms. According to James D. Watson's memoir, DNA, the Secret of Life, Schrödinger's book gave Watson the inspiration to research the gene, which led to the discovery of the DNA double helix structure. He had a life-long interest in the Vedanta philosophy of Hinduism, which influenced his speculations at the close of What is Life?

about the possibility that individual consciousness is only a manifestation of a unitary consciousness pervading the universe.-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Dear Ron Hubbard: According to your definition of communication, all you need is a particle exchanged between two terminals, so then if I send you a missile and you respond with another missile, then would that potentially increase our affinity for each other as your ARC (affinity, reality and communication) model predicts? I can see that we would certainly have the reality of a war, and would probably like to engage in more missile exchanges - lots of communication -, but I don’t quite see how I would become more fond of your responses towards me.

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Vestigial does not mean useless or nonfunctional because it is difficult if not impossible to prove that any particular structure is actually functionless.

Austin Cline

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“La mayoría de los individuos no desean ni están dispuestos a aceptar ayuda antes de tocar el fondo.” (El Milagro más grande del mundo)

Og Mandino-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

“Every time someone is inspired to dream big, the world becomes a richer, fuller place.”

“Time is the most valuable asset of the human experience.”

“I think the highest goal is transcending one's own misconceptions and coming a little closer to the truth about how things actually are. It might be that there is no end game in this goal; if that is the case then the goal really is the process itself.”

Thad Roberts - was a 25-year-old intern at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas when he stole 17 pounds of moon rocks from the space agency that had been brought back to Earth by Apollo astronauts. He got caught selling the rocks on the Internet. Not willing to let his NASA experience or undergraduate degree in astrophysics go to waste, he spent his time behind bars contemplating the greatest mysteries of the universe, and conceived a theory to explain them. According to Roberts and his followers, quantum space theory (QST) could unify Einstein's general relativity with quantum mechanics at long last.

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“Information must lead to knowledge and knowledge to products useful to society”.

Super computing facility at IIT delhi

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------“Science is the most powerful way to do whatever it is you want to do and if you want to do good, it’s the most powerful way of doing good, if you want to do evil, it’s the most powerful way to do evil.” 2013 Interview with Jon Stewart at The Daily Show

“The genes that survived down the generations add up in effect to a description of what it took to survive back then; and that’s tantamount to saying that the DNA in each living creature is a coded description of the environment in which its ancestors survived, it’s a survival manual handed down by generations.” From a conference in 1998 called Der Digitale Planet (The Digital Planet)

“There are other who say that god set up the laws of physics, the laws of the universe, in such a cunning way, that when the time came, evolution got going and eventually produced us. Isn’t that a rather grand and noble way of the world?”

“I’ll tell you quite freely that a society based upon Darwinian principles is exactly the sort of society I do not wish to live in. It would be a terrible society. […] I do not wish to live in a Darwinian world. I do however respect facts, and I do recognize that the facts of science show that the world of nature is a Darwinian world, it is a very unpleasant world, it’s a thoroughly unpleasant world, not the kind of world we wish to live in, so let us understand it, so that we can construct the kind of society in we wish to live, which will be a non-Darwinian society, the sort of society which departs from Darwinian principles. A society that was based on Darwinian principles would be a ruthless free market economy in which the rich crumple the poor, it’d be sort of opposite of a liberal-socialist society in fact. […] I’m against Darwin where politics concern, but you cannot argue with scientific facts.” Dawkins interviewing Creationist Wendy Wright

“The human brain provides possibly the only departure, the only engine of departure from Darwinian principles and it really does, […] the simplest example is contraception. You are contradicting the Darwinian dictates every time you use a contraceptive.”

Richard Dawkins - is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author. He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford, and was the University of Oxford's Professor for Public Understanding of Science from 1995 until 2008. His 1976 book The Selfish Gene, popularised the gene-centered view of evolution and introduced the term meme. In 1982 he introduced an influential concept into evolutionary biology, presented in his book The Extended Phenotype, that the phenotypic effects of a gene are not necessarily limited to an organism's body, but can stretch far into the environment, including the bodies of other organisms. Dawkins is an atheist and humanist, a Vice President of the British Humanist Association and supporter of the Brights movement. He is well known for his criticism of creationism and intelligent design.

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Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.

For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.

He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.

I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

Beauty and folly are old companions.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.

Any secret can be held by three people if two of them are dead.

Benjamin Franklin - (January 17, 1706 [O.S. January 6, 1705[1]] – April 17, 1790) was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. A noted polymath, Franklin was a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, musician, inventor, satirist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat. As a scientist, he was a major figure in the American Enlightenment and the history of physics for his discoveries and theories regarding electricity. He invented the lightning rod, bifocals, the Franklin stove, a carriage odometer, and the glass 'armonica'. <ref wikipedia>

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War is delightful to those who have had no_experience of it. (editors note – G.Antuan: Erasmus missed inserting the word ‘bad’ in this context)

The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.

The pleasures which we most rarely experience give us the greatest delight.

"I cannot tell you […] how I hurry on, with all sails set […]. How I dislike everything that keeps me back, or retards me."

“The gospel, the word of God, faith, Christ, and Holy Spirit- these words are always on their lips; look at their lives and they speak quite another language.”

Desiderius Erasmus - (1466 – 1536), known as Erasmus of Rotterdam, was a Dutch Renaissance humanist, Catholic priest, and a theologian.

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“Once the brain has a goal in mind, it tunes the perceptual system to search the environment” for relevant clues.

Steven Sloman - cognitive scientist at Brown University

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------“A language isn’t just a body of vocabulary or set of grammatical rules, a language is a flash of a human spirit. It’s a vehicle through which the soul of each particular culture comes into the material world. Every language is an old grown forest of the mind, a watershed of thought, an ecosystem with social and spiritual possibilities.” Ted Talks / Light at the Edge of the World

Wade Davis – Anthropologist -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

“This is a very basic example…simple…of complex systems: collective behavior which we can not infer by looking at individual pieces.”

Julio Ottino – Comment on Thomas C. Schelling’s book “Micromotives and Macrobehavior” -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

La educación es, tal vez, la forma más alta de buscar a dios.

No hay arte ateo. Aunque no ames al creador, lo afirmarás creando a su semejanza.

Tengo un día. Si lo sé aprovechar, tengo un tesoro.

En vano se echa la red ante los ojos de los que tienen alas.

El futuro de los niños es siempre hoy. Mañana será tarde.

Existe la inmensa alegria de vivir y de ser justos, pero ante todo existe la inmensa alegria de servir-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."

Galileo Galilei-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

“the conventional formulation of physics are, in principle, inapplicable to the living organism being open system having steady state. We may well suspect that many characteristics of living systems which are paradoxical in view of the laws of physics are a consequence of this fact.”

Karl Ludwig Bertalanffy (1901- 1972): biologist and one of the founders of General Systems Theory (GST)-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

“Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.”

Marie Curie-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------"Father, give us courage to change what must be altered, serenity to accept what cannot be helped, and the insight to know the one from the other." Serenity prayer

Note: The most popular version of the Serenity prayer, whose authorship is unknown, reads: "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can change, and wisdom to know the difference." “Señor, dame la serenidad para aceptar las cosas que no puedo cambiar, el valor para cambiar aquellas que pudo y la sabiduría para reconocer la diferencia.”

"Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible; but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary."

“…groups tend to be more immoral than individuals."

Karl Paul Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971) : American theologian and commentator on public affairs; one of the most influential religious leaders of the 1940s and 1950s in American public affairs.-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------“Science is not a thing, it’s a verb, it’s a way of thinking about things, it’s a way for looking for natural explanations for all phenomena. [..] In all cases we have to ask what’s the more likely explanation.” Ted Talks: Why people believe strange things.

Michael Shermer -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

"It's the thing that are missing that make you a star." George Michael-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------“The first time you do something, its science…the second time, its engineering…third time its technology, its just being a technician.” Ted Talks: 18 minutes with an agile mind

“I’m a scientist, once I do something I want to do something else.” Ted Talks: 18 minutes with an agile mind

“It is the voice of life which calls us to come and learn.” Ted Talks: 18 minutes with an agile mind

Clifford Stall -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------“We might argue that in the course of evolution those organisms were most successful that were responsive to the widest range of stimulus energies in their environment. In order to survive in a constantly fluctuating world, it was better to have a little information about a lot of things than to have a lot of information about a small segment of the environment. If a compromise was necessary, the one we seem to have made is clearly the more adaptive.” The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two

“In order to understand what another person is saying, you must assume it is true and try to imagine what it could be true of.” Miller's Law

George A. Miller – (born February 3, 1920 in Charleston, West Virginia) author of one of the most highly cited papers in psychology, "The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two"[1] published in 1956 in Psychological Review.[2][3][4] This paper suggests that seven (plus or minus two) is the magic number that characterizes people's memory performance on random lists of letters, words, numbers, or almost any kind of meaningful familiar item. Founded the Center for Cognitive Studies at Harvard with Jerome Bruner, a

cognitive developmentalist. He is presently professor of psychology at Princeton University's Department of Psychology. He formerly served as Professor of Psychology at Rockefeller University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and at Harvard University, where he was Chairman of the Department of Psychology. He was a Fulbright Research Fellow at Oxford University. He is also a former President of the American Psychological Association, and in 1991, received the National Medal of Science.

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“When a law is right, it can be used to find another one.” The Messenger Lectures

Dr. Richard Feynman

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“Cuando todo el mundo está loco, estar cuerdo es una locura. “

Paul Anthony Samuelson - economista estadounidense, nacido en Gary, Indiana, de ascendencia judía, el 15 de mayo de 1915. Obtuvo el Premio Nobel de Economía en 1970

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“And I shall attempt the impossible, or at least the improbable!”Arthur Benjamin – From Ted Talk: “Mathemagic”

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------“I’m inclined to look at everything as resulting from designed laws, with the details whether good or bad, left to the working out of what we may call chance.”

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“The mathematical beauty is the summit of the beauty of reason.”

“I have never belonged to any group. I have my own war to fight.”

“Reflection is my religion”

“He is a mortal in flesh but a godhood in spirit.”

“Michelangelo’s architecture, sculpture, painting and urban planning are perfectly integrated. Leonardo da Vinci is a great fantasist obsessed with accurate sciences.”

“Craftsmanship is a quality that any artist must have.”

“The system of craftsmen and that of intellectuals are always closely connected. Craftsmanship is a quality that any artist must have. This apparently neglected aesthetic form is actually very much alive in our times. It is hardly noticeable because its practitioners consist of designers and architects but hardly painters.”

“When we come to spirituality through the expression of artistic language, many details […], for instance, the instruments that were used or the anecdotes would interfere our appreciation of the picture. So I thought I had to explore the spirituality of the images.”

“Science and globalization of economy have brought various nations of the world more similar cities, similar buildings, similar faces and similar symbol systems. I have been trying every means to break away from this boring, uninteresting in speed and efficiency and this world of gradually “equal quality”.”

“It is because there is an “other” in front of you that helps you find your own place. I mean the comparison between nations. Man is actually born with an instinct to compare. Some spirits are derived from comparisons. The sense of shame can make a man grow stronger in a short time. Behind the national issues there is a spiritual war. The war may be invisible to us but exists everywhere.”

G.Antuan comment: Anyone, like Mr.Fei, who develops his reflections with the powerful freedom to view events ‘at different speeds’, slowing or speeding up events, enabling a sort of time travel or deep time comprehension and correlation, is then able to extract such wisdom and underlying truth’s about human issues and conditions. I very much agree and share Mr. Fei’s thoughts. A more common example of a person that exhibited such profound thoughts and capability was Charles Darwin.

When Wang was asked what is the most important thing for an artist he responded: “The spiritual pains, confusions, and a lifelong journey for salvation. I think this is a most real state. This has nothing to do with your material wealth. You have to speak out the truth, and you must have something to say.”

When Wang was asked if he could choose his career over again what would he choose, he responded: “Maybe I would choose a writing job. But fast-paced, exhausted modern people may lack the proper mood to savor the words slowly. So I would still choose painting, as pictures are more direct.

Wang Fei (Oct. 24, 1978 Born in Shanghai, P.R. China) – Contemporary Chinese artist/painter. He is an artist that attempts to reconstruct the national spiritual totems through symbolism. All his image resources and esoteric imagination are related to the history seven hundred years ago when China suffered from no invasion from other civilizations. Behind his fascination and love of history,

Wang Fei has a grand ambition and purpose. "What I really want to do is draw the face of the Chinese spiritual totems back to the moment 700 years ago when the nation's dignity was not lost yet and let them grow in my painting world." Based on his imagination of the people of those times, Wang Fei began his spiritual quest of the internal reason of the cultural changes in China. He declared, "the spiritual face of the Chinese people shall be rebuilt in my painting."

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To see the world in a grain of sand, and heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour.

No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.

Eternity is in love with the productions of time.

Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow. Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.

What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.

“Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained. ”

William Blake (28 November 1757–12 August 1827) - English poet and painter (pre-Romantic and Romantic movement ). Considered mad by contemporaries for his idiosyncratic views, Blake is held in high regard by later critics for his expressiveness and creativity, and for the philosophical and mystical undercurrents within his work.

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“There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell you that he found ready made his discovery or poem or picture – that it came to him from outside, and that he did not consciously create it from within.”—William Kingdon Clifford, from a lecture to the Royal Institution titled "Some of the conditions of mental development"

G.Antuan says: As a musician, I attest to William Kingdon’s thoughts, since through the process of ‘composing melodies’ I always felt these were all some sort of pre-made complex ‘musical scales’ with infinite ways of interpretation according to differing time intervals. So I like to say, that as a composer, I never invented a single melody, I merely discovered them; if I were to invent a melody, it would rather sound like a random noise. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------“I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow.”

Woodrow Wilson-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

"Once you've lived as long as me, then you can tell me not to smoke."

Jeanne Calment: The oldest lady that ever lived. Born on February 21, 1875 in Arles, France. Smoked until she was 117. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

"The world is neither a prison nor a palace of ease, but rather for instruction and discipline.”

"Life is the creation by God and if you would know God, be not a solver of riddles. Look about you and you shall see Him playing with your children. Look into the air and you shall see him walking in the clouds, out-stretching his arms in the lightning and descending in rain. You shall see him smiling in flowers, then rising and waving his hands in trees.”

"Life is short but the influences of what we do or say are immortal. There needs to be much more of the spirit of fellowship among us and more forgiveness.”

Walter Breuning – Oldest man alive, 113 years old on 2010.

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“There is no truer guide than our scientific theories, and if they turn out to be wrong, they have raised us up and we have lived at their level and are ready for wider understanding.”

“The universe is endlessly speaking. People ask the universe the questions they are capable of conceiving and hear the answers they are capable of hearing.”

“People disagree on just about everything that has to do with spirituality, but the one thing they do tend to agree on is that whatever the spiritual may be, it’s not physical.”Excerpt from his book “From the center of the universe”.

“Entropy is called an “emergent property” because it only emerges when a system becomes sufficiently complex.” G.Antuan comment: Yes, it is a well accepted physical phenomenon, the more complex a system and the more you push or speed it up, the greater the possibility of chaotic behavior; this is the one law that economists wouldn’t dare to accept.”

G.Antuan comment: Though this idea of spiritual separateness from matter might come as naturally engaging, inspiring and romantic, I believe it to be precisely our most detrimental and flawed perception of reality. I rather tend to see a grander universe considering that spirit without matter is as irrelevant and nonexistent as matter without spirit; one is a manifestation of the other. Thus, the whole universe is just the space where spiritual potentiality can manifest itself; without it, spirituality makes no sense.

Joel Primack - Professor of physics at the University of California-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------“Our brains have evolved to help us survive within the orders of magnitude of size and speed which our bodies operate at. We never evolved to navigate in the world of atoms. […] It’s therefore useful for our brains to construct notions like solidity and impenetrability because such notions help us to navigate our bodies through the middle size world in which we have to navigate.” From Ted Talks: “Our queer universe”

Richard Dawkins – Evolutionary biologist-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

“The secret to happiness is low expectation.”

“With perfection the expectation the best that you can hope for is that stuff is as good as you expect it to be; you will never be pleasantly surprised because your expectations have gone through the roof.”

“When everything was worse it was actually possible for people to have experiences that were a pleasant surprise.”

“Adding options to peoples lives can’t help but increase the expectations people have about how good those options will be and what that’s going to produce is less satisfaction with results even when they’re good results.”

“The more options there are the easier it is to regret anything at all that is disappointing about the option you chose.”

“Paralysis is a consequence of having too many choices”

“One consequence of buying a bad fitting pair of jeans when there is only one kind to buy is that when you are dissatisfied and you ask why, who is responsible, the answer is clear, the world is responsible, what could you do. When there are hundreds of different styles of jeans available and you buy one that is disappointing and you ask why, who is responsible, it is equally clear that the answer to the question is…you. You could’ve done better with a hundred different kinds of jeans on display there is no excuse for failure.”

“When you manipulate incentives to get people to do the right thing, it creates people who are addicted to incentives, that is to say, it creates people who only do things for incentives. […] We know, that if you reward kids for drawing pictures, they stop caring about the drawing and care only about the reward, if you reward kids for reading books, they stop caring about what’s in the books and only care about how long they go, if you reward teachers for kids test scores, they stop caring about educating and only care about test preparation. If you were to reward doctors for doing more procedures, – which is the current system – they would do more, if instead you reward doctors for doing fewer procedures, they would do fewer, what we want off course is doctors who would do just the right amount of procedures and do the right amount for the right reasons, namely to serve the welfare of their patients.”

Barry Schwartz – Psychologist.Quotes from Ted Talks: “The Paradox of Choice: Why more is less” and “Using our practical Wisdom”-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

All things are in all. - De immenso (1591)

Anything we take in the universe, because it has in itself that which is All in All, includes in its own way the entire soul of the world, which is entirely in any part of it.

We find that everything that makes up difference and number is pure accident, pure show, pure constitution. Every production, of whatever kind, is an alteration, but the substance remains always the same, because it is only one, one divine immortal being.

It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.

With luck on your side, you can do without brains.

The infinity of All ever bringing forth anew, and even as infinite space is around us, so is infinite potentiality, capacity, reception, malleability, matter.

The Divine Light is always in man, presenting itself to the senses and to the comprehension, but man rejects it.

I understand Being in all and over all, as there is nothing without participation in Being, and there is no being without Essence. Thus nothing can be free of the Divine Presence.

If all things are in common among friends, the most precious is Wisdom.

Nature is none other than God in things... Animals and plants are living effects of Nature; Whence all of God is in all things... Think thus, of the sun in the crocus, in the narcissus, in the heliotrope, in the rooster, in the lion. - As quoted in Elements of Pantheism (2004) by Paul A. Harrison

It is manifest... that every soul and spirit hath a certain continuity with the spirit of the universe, so that it must be understood to exist and to be included not only there where it liveth and feeleth, but it is also by its essence and substance diffused throughout immensity... The power of each soul is itself somehow present afar in the universe...

The Universe is one, infinite, immobile. The absolute potential is one, the act is one, the form or soul is one, the material or body is one, the thing is one, the being in one, one is the maximum and the best... It is not generated, because there is no other being it could desire or hope for. since it comprises all being. It does not grow corrupt. because there is nothing else into which it could change, given that it is itself all things. It cannot diminish or grow, since it is infinite.

Giordano Bruno - Philosopher, Martyr, Mystic 1548 – 1600 Caught, imprisoned and burned alive by the Inquisition.

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"no evolutionary future awaits anyone except in association with everyone else."

"...everything is the sum of the past" and "...nothing is comprehensible except through its history. 'Nature' is the equivalent of 'becoming', self-creation: this is the view to which

experience irresistibly leads us. ... There is nothing, not even the human soul, the highest spiritual manifestation we know of, that does not come within this universal law."

“From our experimental point of view, reflection is, as the word indicates, the power acquired by a consciousness to turn in upon itself, to take possession of itself as of an object endowed with its own particular consistence and value: no longer merely to know oneself; no longer merely to know, but to know that one knows. <...> And we are happy to admit that the birth of intelligence corresponds to a turning in upon itself, not only of the nervous system, but of the whole being ”.— The Phenomenon of Man

"The time has come to realize that an interpretation of the universe--even a positivist one--remains unsatisfying unless it covers the interior as well as the exterior of things; mind as well as matter. The true physics is that which will, one day, achieve the inclusion of man in his wholeness in a coherent picture of the world." (The Phenomenon of Man, 1955, p. 36)

"The being who is the object of his own reflection, in consequence of that very doubling back upon himself, becomes in a flash able to raise himself into a new sphere. In reality, another world is born. Abstraction, logic, reasoned choice and inventions, mathematics, art, calculation of space and time, anxieties and dreams of love--all these activities of inner life are nothing else than the effervescence of the newly-formed centre as it explodes onto itself." (The Phenomenon of Man, 1955, p. 165)

"The outcome of the world, the gates of the future, the entry into the super-human--these are not thrown open to a few of the privileged nor to one chosen people to the exclusion of all others. They will open only to an advance of all together, in a direction in which all together can join and find completion in a spiritual renovation of the earth..." (The Phenomenon of Man, 1955, p. 245)

"We are faced with a harmonized collectivity of consciousness equivalent to a sort of super-consciousness. The idea is that of the earth not only becoming covered in myriads of grains of thought, but becoming enclosed in a single thinking envelope so as to form, functionally, no more than a single vast grain of thought on the sidereal scale, the plurality of individual reflections grouping themselves together and reinforcing one another in the act of a single unanimous reflection." (The Phenomenon of Man, 1955, p. 252)"

"To be fully ourselves it is in the opposite direction, in the direction of convergence with all the rest, that we must advance--towards the 'other.' The peak of ourselves, the acme of our originality, is not our

individuality but our person; and according to the evolutionary structure of the world, we can only find our person by uniting together. There is no mind without synthesis. The same holds good from top to bottom. The true ego grows in inverse proportion to 'egoism.' Like the Omega which attracts it, the element only becomes personal when it universalises itself." (The Phenomenon of Man, 1955. p. 263)

"...the more we split and pulverize matter artificially, the more insistently it proclaims its fundamental unity." (The Phenomenon of Man, 1955, p. 41)

"...we see not only thought as participating in evolution as an anomaly or as an epiphenomenon (emergent property; mere consequence of matter complexity); but evolution as so reducible to and identifiable with a progress towards thought that the movement of our souls expresses and measures the very stages of progress of evolution itself. Man discovers that he is nothing else than evolution become conscious of itself." (The Phenomenon of Man, 1955, 221)

"Without the slightest doubt there is something through which material and spiritual energy hold together and are complementary. In the last analysis, somehow or other, there must be a single energy operating in the world. And the first idea that occurs to us is that the 'soul' must be as it were the focal point of transformation at which, from all the points of nature, the forces of bodies converge, to become interiorised and sublimated in beauty and truth." (The Phenomenon of Man, 1955, p. 63)

"To write the true natural history of the world, we should need to be able to follow it from within. It would thus appear no longer as an interlocking succession of structural types replacing one another, but as an ascension of inner sap spreading out in a forest of consolidated

instincts. Right at its base, the living world is

constituted by conscious clothes in flesh and bone." (The Phenomenon of Man, 1955, p. 151)

"Love in all its subtleties is nothing more, and nothing less, than the more or less direct trace marked on the heart of the element by the psychical convergence of the universe upon itself." (The Phenomenon of Man, 1955, p. 265)

“And it is in no way metaphorical to say that man finds himself capable of experiencing and discovering his God in the whole length, breadth and depth of the world in movement. To be able to say literally to God that one loves him, not only with all one's body, all one's heart and all one's soul, but with every fibre of the unifying universe--that is a prayer than can only be made in space-time." (The Phenomenon of Man, 1955, p. 297)

"evolution is an ascent toward consciousness"

“Thus something in the cosmos escapes from entropy, and does so more and more.”—The Phenomenon of Man

Pierre Tailhard de Chardin - French Jesuit priest, paleontologist and philosopher. After his death, he became widely known for his hugely popular magnum opus, Phenomenon of Man. The views put forth in this masterpiece are today considered prophetic (i.e., predicting the emergence of the internet and communication systems and what Marshall McLuhan would later call "the global village") by many. He argued that the human condition necessarily leads to the psychic unity of humankind, though he stressed that this unity can only be voluntary; this voluntary psychic unity he termed "unanimization." Teilhard also states that "evolution is an ascent toward consciousness", giving encephalization as an example of early stages, and therefore, signifies a continuous upsurge toward the Omega Point,[13] which for all intents and purposes, is God.

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“Through knowledge of the universe we can know God…because God manifests himself in universe…God gives many, many signs.”

Osman bin Bakar – Author of “The history of Philosophy of Islamic Science”Note: The Koran describes science and religion as two parallel path; hospitals, algebra and the distillation process (alcohol is an Arabic word) are all Arabic inventions.

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“I don’t see the value of anything that doesn’t change”

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“The prospects of technology appeal to people’s deepest fears as well as to their highest hopes.”

“When I take phycodelics I always do it in a shamanic style, usually at night, usually alone, in nature if possible, and then I watch, I pay very close attention, I use my mind as an alchemical vessel for carrying out observations on the union of spirit, my spirit, my personality and matter, the physical matter of the substance that im ingesting.” Terence Mckenna - Etnobotanist

“I look at space exploration, artificial intelligence, nuclear weapons, cyberspace and genetic engineering as all essentially religious projects.” “The human genome doesn’t really exist because everyone’s genome is different.” David F. Noble – Historian of Technology”

Documentary: The Transhumanist Wet Dream-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------[What is intelligence?] […]…its ability to solve problems with limited resources, including time being limited, because solving a problem in a million years…[…]isn’t good enough.”

Note by G.Antuan: Kurzweil certainly gave a good definition to intelligence. I would say that intelligence is the ability to create, invent, innovate or introduce better means of survival under multiple circumstances, conditions or problems. The rest is learned behavior, copycats, those that pretend to be intelligent but have minimally contributed new ideas or solutions, those that speak tons of knowledge as if it were simple and obvious but they themselves wouldn’t have never figure any of it on its own. Apart from such an ability to imagine or synthesize ideas to create new ones, intelligence invariably deals with change and time, that is, it includes an ability to adapt, time being the crucial factor.

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¿Cuáles son los problemas más importantes de tu área? ¿Estás trabajando en alguno de ellos? ¿Por qué no? (Adaptado de la conferencia You and Your Research)

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  El hombre es verdaderamente grande cuando actúa apasionadamente. Man is only truly great when he acts from passions.

La sabiduría de los sabios y la experiencia de los siglos pueden ser conservadas con las citas.

Nada revela tanto el carácter de una persona como su voz.

El hombre consecuente cree en el destino; el voluble en el azar.

Alimentad el espíritu con grandes pensamientos. la fe en el heroísmo hace los héroes.

Los experimentos en política significan revoluciones.

  Los defectos del gran hombre son el consuelo de los necios.

El autor que habla de sus propios libros es peor que la madre que sólo habla de sus hijos.

“Ser consciente de la propia ignorancia es un gran paso hacia el saber.“

El secreto del éxito en la vida del hombre consiste en estar dispuesto para aprovechar la ocasión que se le depare.

Lo mejor que podemos hacer por otro no es sólo compartir con él nuestras riquezas, sino mostrarle las suyas.

El tiempo es precioso, pero la verdad es más preciosa que el tiempo.

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El medio mejor para hacer buenos a los niños es hacerlos felices.

El arte es la forma más intensa de individualismo que el mundo ha conocido. WILDE, Oscar Fingal O`Flahertie Wills

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Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience. — Dilbert's Rules of Order.

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"if you want to be successful is just simple: know what you are doing, love what you are doing and believe in what you are doing"--Will Rogers

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When I hear the notion of "junk DNA" it makes me wonder if we consider the space between letters and words as "junk." ( silly notion ,but it comes to mind)

Bill Davis – random internet user who posted thisNote: Just like in music, without silence, much of it could lose its magic. G.Antuan

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Así como peca el médico ignorante metiéndose a curar, así el abogado inepto tomando una defensa.

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Dame un alma que no conozca el aburrimiento, los refunfuños, los suspiros y los lamentos y no permitas que me tome demasiado en serio esa cosa tan invasora que se llama "yo".Santo Tomas Moro

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" Las cosas más profundas de la vida las buscaríamos mas si supiéramos que la vida es un recurso escaso".

Claudio Naranjo –Judio,Sufi, etc.…Investigador espiritual. Desde su actitud tranquila y silenciosa profundiza más y más en las cosas del espíritu. Siempre ha sido una figura

intercultural, interdisciplinaria e interreligiosa tanto por su modo de pensar como por su experiencia.

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“Life is basically a result of an information process; a software process, our genetic code is our software. And our cells are dynamically constantly reading that code, making new proteins, the proteins make then other cellular components and that’s what we see.” Craig Venter

Craig Venter – Eminent biologist and entrepreneur, who lead the creation of the first synthetic living cell (self replicating synthetic bacteria), whose DNA was completely synthesized starting from the four individual elementary chemical compounds that make up DNA. To make sure that the living bacteria created were ‘synthetic bacteria’ and not the result of contamination, they included particular watermarks on its synthetic DNA, which included the names of all scientific contributors, 4 philosophic quotes and a web address.

His travels around the world oceans collecting virus and bacterial DNA were made under the philosophy that: ‘Microorganisms can also hold the clue to generate an almost infinite amount of energy, to develop powerful drugs and to clean up the contamination produced by humans.’ (Translated to Spanish: ’Los microorganismos también pueden tener la clave para generar una casi infinita cantidad de energía, desarrollar poderosos fármacos y limpiar la contaminación producida por los humanos.’ (ref Wikipedia))

G.Antuan’s notes: #1: Ok Mr.Venter, so life is the result of an information process; but how or what arranged information in such a way? A random process ? Does random lead to order? Or could we say that atoms and molecules somehow learn, gain experience or associate and dissociate as a purely natural mechanism of the universe?

#2: Some argue that these are not truly synthetic bacteria, but I ask them the following: If we somehow synthesize a brain and all other components that make up a human head from scratch, and manage to change this synthetically manufactured head with the head of a living person and this ‘new’ person speaks, feels, desires, love and think, have we in essence created a person? Yes! Then consider that replacing a complete DNA of a bacteria with artificially synthesized DNA is the equivalent to a head transplant with a completely synthesized head.

In fact, we should immediately start manufacturing those synthetic cells that would make Mars and our entire planetary neighborhood hospitable. This is a crucial step to forward life, especially to overcome our actual precarious condition of

'having all the eggs in the same basket', planet Earth...any global catastrophe can wipe us away and make all our advancements useless. We need to overcome the modern ‘flat earth conception’ and urgently conquer space.

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“The only time I lied was during Confession.”

“But what if you were doing your best with the resources you had at the time? Chances are, you were.

The truth of life is that you are not in control. As much as you’d like to believe you can control it all and create your experiences exactly as you’d have them play out, life doesn’t work like that. Life is a collaboration between you and everyone else in the world, as well as the forces of nature and a zillion other things I can’t possibly list here, like the stock market and the rambunctious natures of Terriers.

Or you can say that life is a collaboration between you and God, or the Universe, or the Great Spirit, or whatever you believe in (if you’re a believer). And if you think you can control that . . . good luck.

Your word and your will are strong, but they are not law.”

Leslie Hedrick – historical fantasy writer and freelance copywriter.http://leslie-hedrick.blogspot.com/http://lesliehedrick.com/leslie@lesliehedrick.com

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Lo peor que hacen los malos es obligarnos a dudar de los buenos.

Jacinto Benavent.

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“So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?”

The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.

The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.

Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.

The political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.G.Antuan says: Ayn is right about this, but one must not miss the fact that part of human nature, part of the condition of being human, is that we can derive and generate much happiness for ourselves by making others happy. This is at odds with all her philosophy. Humans are beings capable of experiencing empathy and compassion, and through the experience of these emotions man is capable of self-sacrifice to derive a deeper sense of communion and connection to the universe, to find meaning, which repays his investment in others in the form of joy. It is a universal truth of the human condition that a way to reach happiness is to make others happy.

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.

Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it.G.Antuan says: In other words, don’t try to argue with a madman!

To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one's thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one's mind and to evict oneself from the realm of reality.G.Antuan says: In a practical sense she is right, but in absolute terms her views are limited and fail to encompass a broader truth. Contradictions are sometimes there to ‘remind us’ that reality is much more complex than anyone could ever conceive. But this doesn’t justify refraining ourselves from re-evaluating or questioning further. Instead, contradictions are the natural means of the universe to ignite the human imagination towards ever perfecting his truths.

Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.G.Antuan says: Her premise is that we are beings capable of absolute reason, but from a human perspective it is wrong to discard or deny the existence of contradictions. It is actually impossible to comprehend reality by eliminating all contradictions, rather we increase our understanding of reality by limiting contradictions. Given that reality can’t be modeled to absolute perfection, all our attempts to do so generate only but incomplete models of reality, and anything beyond our most beloved models will always break down into contradiction. I like to say that we cannot comprehend reality without contradiction; a certain degree of illusion will always be necessary to complete our view of reality! Faith and hope are essential components of human life. If you find no contradiction, you still don’t know enough!

Ayn Rand (1905-1982) – Famed Russian-American novelist and philosopher; creator of the philosophy of “Objectivism”. She is one of those cases demonstrating that brilliance is commonly revealed by profound individuality and originality - even if controversial. She fearlessly expressed her convictions in her books and publicly, which lead to both loyal followers and fierce opponents of her views. Two of her best selling novels were Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged.-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

“It is difficult to believe in a culture which can develop powered flight but which has no more sophisticated medium of communication than scratching pictures on rocks”

Living in the moment is nice.......but when i'm thinking it's something like...what I need to get at the grocery, how to approach an issue, what words to use when speaking about something important, how can I do this the best way possible- how can I make this funny...Why was that said- how was that made, who was that person?What beliefs did I take on without understanding what I claim to believe... I can think a lot at times which of course can get dangerous- then I think- okay stop thinking!!!

(An enlightened internet user – a woman by the way)

“¡Si Globalizan la miseria, globalizamos la resistencia!”"If they globalize misery, we will globalize resistance" Anonymous

On July 28, more than ten thousand demonstrators from forty-four countries took to the streets of Quito in a planned protest against the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) and other national and regional trade agreements the U.S. is pursuing throughout Latin America. Among the most prominent slogans were "If they globalize misery, we will globalize resistance" and "We do not want to be a U.S. colony, we want a free and sovereign Latin America."

Success is failure turned inside out, the silver tint of the clouds of doubtAnd you never can tell how close you are, It may be near when it seems so farSo stick to the fight when you’re hardest hitIt’s when things seem worst, That you MUST NOT QUIT! -Anonymous

“As good precaution, you’ve got to think of unusual things (bad crazy things that could happen) if you’re going to be doing unusual (wild and never tried before) things.” Beaconite (BEACON congress 2014)

“The sage, the philosopher, the magus, the alchemist and the scientist.”

The ones throughout our history who made the greatest leaps in our understanding, did so by being truly religious people.

Their true aim, whether consciously pursued or not, was to understand the highest, hidden truths of creation. To learn the language  of the Creator, to square the circle and bring the heavens to earth and raise the spirit of man to the summum bonumvia the Magnum Opus... true science is inseparable from true religion .

Any atheist who professes an intellect above that of the masses, who is not in reality a skeptical agnostic, is in my eyes nothing more  than the new version of edgy gothic kiddies who profess to be wiccan satanists because they're still mad that their baptist parents made them go to sunday school where they were rejected by the hot girl for being socially awkward.” From an internet blog

“Never underestimate the power of your actions.  With one small gesture, you can change a person’s life.”

“Physical attraction can grow out of connection...”

“Tigers are supposed to tear their prey to shreds while alive, but Humans are supposed to know better. “ Comment on youtube video showing vicious animal treatment

All models are wrong, but some are useful…

"Watch your thoughts, for they become words and actions. Watch your actions, for they become habits. Watch your habits, for they become character. Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny."

Ya yo entiendo cómo funciona esto. Tu opinión es válida en la medida en que aportas o contribuyes. Ejemplo, si aportas 50% del capital, entonces tu opinión vale un 50%.Anónimo – en la fila haciendo turno para recibir mi almuerzo

Platón opta por un planteamiento dualista porque tiene claro que el mundo físico existe y dice que, si el ser fuera absoluto y único, no existiría el pensar, que implica relacionar, explicar.

“A very wise person once told me that time spent on figuring out what you do NOT want to do is often the most valuable time in your life.”

“I am Me. In all the world, there is no one else exactly like me. Everything that comes out of me is authentically mine, because I alone chose it -- I own everything about me: my body, my feelings, my mouth, my voice, all my actions, whether they be to others or myself. I own my fantasies, my dreams, my hopes, my fears. I own my triumphs and successes, all my failures and mistakes. Because I own all of me, I can become intimately acquainted with me. By so doing, I can love me and be friendly with all my parts. I know there are aspects about myself that puzzle me, and other aspects that I do not know -- but as long as I am friendly and loving to myself, I can courageously and hopefully look for solutions to the puzzles and ways to find out more about me. However I look and sound, whatever I say and do, and whatever I think and feel at a given moment in time is authentically me. If later some parts of how I looked, sounded, thought, and felt turn out to be unfitting, I can discard that which is unfitting, keep the rest, and invent something new for that which I discarded. I can see, hear, feel, think, say, and do. I have the tools to survive, to be close to others, to be productive, and to make sense and order out of the world of people and things outside of me. I own me, and therefore, I can engineer me. I

am me, and I am Okay.” Powerful words!!!!!!

“At some point coincidence becomes pattern.” – found on a health related blog“Coincidence becomes pattern, pattern implies cause, and cause means it wasn't a coincidence after all.”

“You are assuming that gold is the real wealth? Gold is like paper money, people cannot eat gold or drink gold is just a mineral. Goods and work gives the real value to gold and paper money.” (trifulquita15 at youtube: World Bank creating poverty – BBC newsnight)

“You can't survive and be too sentimental. I love animals too, but I also know in the grand scheme of things almost all animals are potential food sources. I love my cats and dog, but if the survival of me and my children depended on it, I'd kill, cook and eat them.” (found on internet post referencing Steve Irwin’s point of view on vegetarianism)

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“[…] [el] misterio, no es el límite de la razón. Al contrario, es lo ilimitado de la razón.”

Leonardo Boff –teólogo brasileño, ha dedicado su vida a la enseñanza y al servicio de los pobres.

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–Algunas posturas de yoga me causan dolor.–G. V.: El dolor es cambio. Cada cambio causa dolor. Pero ese dolor te lleva hacia donde quieres ir. Lo importante es cómo reaccionamos ante el dolor, no el dolor en sí mismo.

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Lo que diferencia los actos de un hombre sensato de los actos de un insensato, es que los actos del primero se explican, es que tienen una razón de ser, es que se distingue en ellos la causa y el objetivo, el origen y el fin, mientras que los actos de un hombre privado de razón no se explican, es incapaz él mismo de discernir la causa y el objetivo; no tiene razón de ser.

Sebastian Fauré (1858-1952) – escritor y filósofo anarquista francés. Iniciador de la Enciclopedia Anarquista. G.Antuan dice: Ateo por llamado divino.

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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.

Books, the children of the brain.

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.

Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.

Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Proper words in proper places make the true definiton of style.

The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.G.Antuan says: “Who has the last word? Who is to say whether destiny or will is the source of his condition? Certainly we can say one is humble while the other is arrogant. With or without success I’d favor the humble even if only for aesthetics reasons.”

The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.

The want of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.

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“La realidad es aquello que, cuando dejas de creer en ella, no desaparece”. Philip K. Dick

G.Antuan: ...y añado...es cierto que debemos creer en muchas cosas que no son reales para poder lidiar con la realidad.

“hmm…me hace pensar…si dejara de creer en el amor, en la amistad, en la felicidad, en el odio, en el discrimen, en la fe, en la justicia, la espiritualidad, en la belleza, estas cosas desaparecerían por completo. ¿Que tan reales son estas entonces? ¿Cómo la realidad permite estas sub-realidades individuales y temporales? ¿Qué hace que una realidad particular persista? Los seres humanos nos caracterizamos por tener una constante necesidad de crear ‘realidades’ individuales y temporales. Estas son efectivamente el tipo de realidades que podemos manipular o controlar con tan solo nuestros pensamientos, palabras e imaginación. Son a estas realidades a las que aplica el tener la precaución de no atraerlas o atraerlas con tan solo contemplarlas. Lo demás, es decir, los cambios en la verdadera realidad, requieren esfuerzo y acción, y son regidas por la ley de causa y efecto.”

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“[…];was there something in him, akin to the impenetrable aloofness of Newton, which shut him off from his fellows and his duties at times of mental creativity ?”

Turnbull – quoted text from a letter where he is referring to Maclaurin

Another anonymous note regarding Maclaurin: ... such was his anxiety for the improvement of his scholars that if at any time they seemed not fully to comprehend his meaning, or if, upon examining them, he found they could not readily demonstrate the propositions from which he had provided, he was apt rather to suspect his own explanation to have been obscure, than their want of genius or attention, and therefore would resume the demonstration in some other method, to try if, by exposing it in a different light, he would give then a better view of it.

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“ser culto es el único modo de ser libre”José Marti (político, poeta y escritor cubano)

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“La mejor forma de tener una buena idea es... tener un montón de ideas.”

PAULING, Linus Carl - En 1931, Pauling publicó su obra más importante, The Nature of the Chemical Bond ("La naturaleza del enlace químico"), en la cual desarrolló el concepto de hibridación de los orbitales atómicos. Pauling hizo contribuciones importantes a la definición de la estructura de los cristales y proteínas, y fue uno de los fundadores de la biología molecular. Es reconocido como un científico muy versátil, debido a sus contribuciones en diversos campos, incluyendo la química cuántica, química inorgánica y orgánica, metalurgia, inmunología, anestesiología, psicología, decaimiento radiactivo y otros. Adicionalmente, Pauling abogó por el consumo de grandes dosis de vitamina C, algo que ahora se considera fuera de la ortodoxia médica.-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------“Mientras más aprendo, más me doy cuenta de lo mucho que ignoro” Anónimo

“La muerte esta tan segura de su victoria que nos da toda una vida de ventaja” Anónimo.

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Keep your words soft, just in case you have to eat them. Anónimo

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"The tragedy in life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach."– Benjamin Mays

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“Como no me he preocupado de nacer, no me preocupo de morir.” Federico García Lorca

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“Así como una jornada bien empleada produce un dulce sueño, así una vida bien usada causa una dulce muerte.” Leonardo da Vinci

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“Que la vida me mate, no la muerte” Leticia Herrero-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

“En el caos busca la simplicidad y en la discordia la armonía.”

“Vacía tu mente, se amorfo, moldeable, como el agua. Si pones agua en una taza se convierte en la taza. Si pones agua en una botella se convierte en la botella. Si la pones en una tetera se convierte en la tetera. El agua puede fluir o puede golpear. Sé agua amigo mío.”

Bruce LeeG.Antuan dice: “Reconozcámoslo o no, ¡ somos como el agua !. Adaptamos nuestra forma de acuerdo al envase que nos sostiene. La forma externa determina la forma interna. Inevitablemente ‘fluimos’ por la forma externa…es de esta forma que somos amorfos por naturaleza.

La forma externa da forma a la forma interna; eso somos...forma interna. Es cuestión de admirar la primera...la forma infinita. Como agua somos, con forma de la botella que nos sostiene en un momento o del vaso que nos sostiene en otro momento...son estas formas externas (vaso, botella, etc) los moldes de nuestra existencia...estos moldes pertenecen a la forma infinita. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------“No es la doctrina, es el proceso lo que los clasifica como sectas destructivas.”

“Los cultos básicamente tienen sólo dos propósitos, reclutar nuevos miembros y el recaudar fondos. Las religiones establecidas y los movimientos altruistas pueden reclutar nuevos miembros y recaudar fondos. Los cultos pueden reclamar que hacen contribuciones sociales, pero en la realidad éstas siguen siendo sólo meras reclamaciones, o gestos nada más. Su enfoque siempre se domina por el reclutamiento de nuevos miembros y las recaudaciones de fondos. Los cultos aparentan ser innovadores y exclusivos. El líder reclama que está rompiendo con la tradición, ofreciendo algo innovador, e instituyendo el único sistema viable para cambios que resolverá los problemas de vida o las heridas del mundo. Mientras reclaman esto, el culto entonces usa sus sistemas de coerción psicológica sobre los miembros para inhibir su habilidad para examinar la validez real de las demandas del líder y del culto.”

Rafael Guillermo – Orientando Vidas

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"If you seek to aid everyone that suffers in the galaxy, you will only weaken yourself and weaken them. It is the internal struggles, when fought and won on their own, that yield the strongest rewards If you care for others, then dispense

with pity and sacrifice and recognize the value in letting them fight their own battles." Nietzsche ??-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

"Quién no conoció la inquietud, jamás conocerá el descanso."

"La filosofía responde a la necesidad de hacernos una concepción unitaria y total del mundo y de la vida."

"Es débil porque no ha dudado bastante y ha querido llegar a conclusiones."

"Una de las ventajas de no ser feliz es que se puede desear la felicidad."

"El que tiene fe en sí mismo no necesita que los demás crean en él."

"El ajedrez procura una suerte de inteligencia que sirve únicamente para jugar al ajedrez."

"Obra de modo que merezcas a tu propio juicio y a juicio de los demás la eternidad, que te hagas insustituible, que no merezcas morir."

"Hay que buscar la verdad y no la razón de las cosas. Y la verdad se busca con humildad."

“Lo sabe todo, absolutamente todo. Figúrense lo tonto que será.”

“Hay gentes tan llenas de sentido común, que no les queda el más pequeño rincón para el sentido propio.”

“Los satisfechos, los felices, no aman; se duermen en la costumbre.”

“Pedimos milagros, como si no fuese el milagro más evidente el que los pidamos.”

“La vida no es sueño. El más vigoroso tacto espiritual es la necesidad de persistencia en una forma u otra. El anhelo de extenderse en tiempo y en espacio.”

“La verdadera ciencia enseña, por encima de todo, a dudar y a ser ignorante.”

“El escritor sólo puede interesar a la humanidad cuando en sus obras se interesa por la humanidad.”

“Hay que sentir el pensamiento y pensar el sentimiento.”

“El rico no es el que posee oro y plata, sino el que se contenta con poco.”

“Procuremos más ser padres de nuestro porvenir que hijos de nuestro pasado.”

Miguel de Unamuno

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“I think they’re missing the whole message of scientific history which is: The greatest obstacle to progress in science is the illusion of knowledge; the illusion that we know already what’s going on…when we don’t.”

Prof. Mike Disney – astronomer Carneige University and member of Hubble space telescope science committee

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"El ser humano tiene un doble problema: no aprende las verdades demasiado complicadas y

olvida las que son demasiado simples." Dame R. West

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“Fallor ergo sum; I err therefore I am”

¿Qué es, pues, el tiempo? Si nadie me lo pregunta, lo sé; pero si quiero explicárselo al que me lo pregunta, no lo sé. Lo que sí digo sin vacilación es que sé que si nada pasase no habría tiempo pasado; y si nada sucediese, no habría tiempo futuro; y si nada existiese, no habría tiempo presente. Pero aquellos dos tiempos, pretérito y futuro, ¿cómo pueden ser, si el pretérito ya no es él y el futuro todavía no es? Y en cuanto al presente, si fuese siempre presente y no pasase a ser pretérito, ya no sería tiempo, sino eternidad. Si, pues, el presente, para ser tiempo es necesario que pase a ser pretérito, ¿cómo decimos que existe éste, cuya causa o razón de ser está en dejar de ser, de tal modo que no podemos decir con verdad que existe el tiempo sino en cuanto tiende a no ser?San Agustin – Confesiones: Capitulo Undécimo

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"Si no viésemos a Dios de alguna manera, no veríamos ninguna cosa""El necio encuentra siempre otro mucho mayor que le admire."“La lectura es de gran utilidad cuando se medita lo que se lee.”“Dios es infalible en su propia naturaleza: no puede estar sujeto a error a o pecado, pues es su propia luz y su propia ley.”“Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.”

Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715) - filósofo (Racionalismo) y teólogo francés

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"Deus sive natura", Dios o la naturaleza

“Son numerosos los ejemplos de hombres que a causa de sus riquezas han sufrido una persecución que llegó hasta la muerte; y también de hombresque, por adquirir bienes, se expusieron a tantos peligros que acabaron por pagar su desatino con la vida. Y no son menos numerosos los ejemplos de quienes

sufrieron cruelmente por adquirir o conservar el honor (u orgullo). Innumerables, en fin, son los ejemplos de aquellos que han apresurado su muerte por el exceso de placer. Por lo demás, esos males parecían provenir de que toda nuestra felicidad o infelicidad reside en un sólo punto: ¿á qué clase de objeto estamos apegados por el amor (o el deseo)? En efecto, lo que no se ama no engendra nunca disputa; no estaremos tristes si se pierde, ni sentiremos envidia si cae en posesión de otro; ni temor, ni odio, en una palabra,

ninguna conmoción del alma. […] Mas el amor hacia una cosa eterna e infinita alimenta el alma con una alegría pura y exenta de toda tristeza; bien grandemente deseable y que merece ser buscado con todas nuestras fuerzas. […] mientras mi espíritu estaba entregado a tales meditaciones, se apartaba de las cosas perecederas. […] Esto fue para mi un gran consuelo, pues vi que el mal no era de naturaleza irremediable. [..] a medida que conocí cada vez más el verdadero bien, se hicieron mas frecuentes y prolongados […]” (Tratado de la Reforma del Entendimiento)

“ […] bien y mal se expresan en una forma puramente relativa, y que una sola y misma cosa puede ser llamada buena y mala según como se la considere; lo mismo ocurre con lo perfecto y lo imperfecto.”

“ […] es considerado bien soberano (bien verdadero) llegar a disfrutar, con otros individuos si es posible, de esa

naturaleza superior: […] el conocimiento

de la unión que tiene la mente con la naturaleza entera. […] es necesario tener de la Naturaleza una

comprensión que baste para adquirir esa naturaleza […]”

“El espíritu se conoce tanto mejor cuanto mas extenso sea su conocimiento de la naturaleza,[…]”

“[…] y será perfecta en el más alto grado cuando el espíritu se contraiga atentamente al conocimiento del Ser más perfecto o reflexione sobre El.” “[…]y cuanto mejor conozca sus propias fuerzas, más fácilmente puede dirigirse y darse reglas; y cuanto mejor conozca el orden de la Naturaleza, más fácilmente puede evitar procedimientos inútiles”

“[…] para establecer la verdad y para razonar bien no necesitamos otros instrumentos que la verdad misma y el buen razonamiento.”

“ante todo hay que pensar en el medio de curar el entendimiento y de purificarlo, hasta donde sea posible al comienzo, de modo que conozcalas cosas fácilmente, sin error y lo mejor posible.

“[…] a medida que su conocimiento abarca más cosas, adquiere nuevos instrumentos que le permiten avanzar con mayor facilidad. ”

“[…] si una cosa compuesta de muchas partes es dividida mentalmenteen todas sus partes más simples y se atiende a cada una de ellas tomada aparte, la confusión desaparecerá.”

“el espíritu se conoce tanto mejor cuanto más extenso sea su conocimiento de la naturaleza, claro está que esta primera parte del método será tanto más perfecta cuantas más cosas conozca el espíritu, y será perfecta en el más alto grado cuando el espíritu se contraiga atentamente al conocimiento del Ser más perfecto o reflexione sobre Él. […] cuantas más cosas sepa el espíritu, tanto mejor conocerá sus propias fuerzas y el orden de la Naturaleza; y cuanto mejor conozca sus propias fuerzas, más fácilmente puede dirigirse y darse reglas; y cuanto mejor conozca el orden de la Naturaleza, más fácilmente puede evitar procedimientos inútiles; y en esto consiste todo el método que acabamos de exponer.”

"Dios es un ser absolutamente infinito; una substancia que consta de atributos infinitos, cada uno de los cuales expresa su esencia eterna e infinita."

“Dios es una cosa que piensa”

"No hay temor que esté desprovisto de alguna esperanza, y no hay esperanza que esté desprovista de algún temor."

“Y de todas las ideas, que cada uno tiene, hacemos un todo o, lo que es lo mismo, un ente de razón, al que llamamos entendimiento.”

“[…], pueden caer en grandes errores quienes no han distinguido muy exactamente la imaginación del entendimiento.”

“(...) Todo cuanto hacemos debe tender al progreso y al perfeccionamiento.”

“Si el hombre tiene una idea de Dios, Dios debe existir formalmente.”

“El que se arrepiente de lo que ha hecho es doblemente miserable.”

“Ninguna cosa, en efecto, considerada en su propia naturaleza,podrá llamarse perfecta o imperfecta, sobre todo cuando sabemos que cuanto sucede se cumple según el orden eterno y las leyes determinadas de la naturaleza.”

“Even ‘imperfect’ things, produced mediately by God, are as perfect as they could be given the necessary cause of their existence and essence. God could not have acted otherwise.”

“God does not deliberate, decide and then act because God is eternal and ‘in eternity there is no when nor before nor after’. […] Those who believe that God wills the world into existence must agree that given Gods essence, the world follows necessarily and perfectly.”

“Si no quieres repetir el pasado, estúdialo”

“La experiencia nos ha demostrado que a la persona no le resulta nada más difícil de dominar que su lengua”

“Sé también que es tan imposible que el vulgo se libere de la superstición como del miedo.”

“Dios es la causa inmanente y no transeúnte, de todas las cosas.”

“Por consiguiente, la duda nace siempre del estudio sin orden de las cosas.”

“La recta vía (la forma correcta) para indagar consiste, pues, en formar pensamientos, partiendo de una definición dada, lo que hacemoscon tanto más éxito y facilidad cuanto mejor hayamos definido una cosa.”

“[…], cuanto mas conocible es una cosa más fácilmente se retiene,y al contrario, cuanto menos conocible es, más fácilmente la olvidamos. Por ejemplo, si digo a alguien muchas palabras sueltas, las retendrá con muchamayor dificultad que si se las comunico en forma de relato. La memoria se fortalece también sin el auxilio del entendimiento, en razón del vigor (fuerza) con el cual una cosa material singular afecta la imaginación o el sentido llamado común. […] Si alguien, por ejemplo, ha leído una sola historia amorosa, la retendrá muy bien mientras no lea varias del mismo género, porque ella permanece sola en su imaginación; pero si hay varias del mismo género, lasimagina a la vez y las confunde fácilmente. ”

“[…] el orden según el cual es necesario que una cosa sea concebida antes que otra, no debe, […] inferirse de la sucesión de […] las cosas eternas, pues en éstas todas las cosas singulares son por naturaleza simultáneas. Habrá, pues, necesariamente, que buscar medios distintos de los que usamos para conocer las cosas eternas y sus leyes; cosas que no corresponde tratar aquí y tampoco es necesario mientras no hayamos adquirido un conocimiento suficiente de las cosas eternas y de sus leyes infalibles y mientras no conozcamos la naturaleza de nuestros sentidos.”

“[…],cuanto más singular es una cosa, más fácilmente se la retiene, como aparece en el ejemplo mencionado. […]De donde resulta que debemos buscar ante todo el conocimiento de las cosas particulares. Además, cuanto más conocible es una cosa, más fácilmente se la retiene. De donde resulta que no podremos dejar de retener una cosa singularísima, por poco que sea conocible.”

“Los hombres se equivocan al creerse libres, opinión que obedece al solo hecho de que son conscientes de sus acciones pero ignorantes de las causas que las determinan. Y, por tanto su idea de libertad se reduce al desconocimiento de las causas de sus acciones, pues todo ese decir que las acciones humanas dependen de la voluntad son sólo palabras, sin idea alguna que les corresponda. Efectivamente, todos ignoran lo que es la voluntad y cómo mueve el cuerpo, y quienes se jactan de otra cosa e inventan residencias o moradas del alma suelen mover a risa o asco. Así también, cuando miramos el Sol, imaginamos que dista de nosotros unos doscientos pies, error que no consiste en esa imaginación en cuanto tal, sino en el hecho de que, al par que lo imaginamos así, ignoramos su verdadera distancia y la causa de esa imaginación. Pues, aunque sepamos más tarde que dista de nosotros más de 600 diámetros terrestres, no por ello dejaremos de imaginar que está cerca; en efecto, no imaginamos que el Sol esté tan cerca porque ignoremos su verdadera distancia, sino porque la esencia del Sol, en cuanto que este afecta nuestro cuerpo, está implícita en una afección de ese cuerpo nuestro.".Baruch de Spinoza, Ética. demostrada según el orden geométrico.

Spinoza – Exponente “moderno’ del panteísmo y

homólogo de Descartes y Leibnitz. Propone una solución neutral. Spinoza no admite el dualismo cartesiano de las dos sustancias (material y espiritual). Para él , estamos compuestos por una sola sustancia que es Dios, de la cual sólo conocemos dos atributos, la extensión y el pensamiento. Son dos atributos de la misma realidad, de modo que el monismo intermedio considera que hay una única sustancia de la cual sólo conocemos

dos atributos. Entonces cuerpo y mente son dos aspectos de

una misma cosa, y por eso, ya no es necesario plantear el problema de su interacción. Obtenido de "http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monismo"

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‘Let us imagine a child and a grown-up in Heaven who both died in the True Faith, but the grown-up has a higher place than the child. And the child will ask God, “Why did you give that man a higher place?” And God will answer, “He has done many good works.” Then the child will say, “Why did you let me die so soon so that I was prevented from doing good?” God will answer, “I knew that you would grow up a sinner, therefore it was better that you should die a child.” Then a cry goes up from the damned in the depths of Hell, “Why, O Lord, did you not let us die before we became sinners?” ’

Ghazali – Regarded as Islam’s greatest theologians. He’s one of the most remarkable and enigmatic figures in Islam.

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Human beings who do not want to belong to the mass need only to stop, and not be comfortable; follow their conscience, which cries out: "Be yourself! All you are now doing, thinking, desiring, is not you yourself."...your educators can be only your liberators...

—Schopenhauer as Educator, §1 - From Untimely Meditations

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“ I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.”

Unbelievable, the chance factor in life is mindboggling. […] And through an astronomical concatenation of circumstances, our paths crossed. Movie: Whatever Works …written by Woody Allen

See…I’m the only one that sees the whole picture…that’s what they mean by genius. Movie: Whatever Works …written by Woody Allen

Woody Allen

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Extraordinary how mathematics help you to know yourself. Samuel Beckett, Molloy

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“Pero yo deseo hacer la música, la música que a mí me gusta, o permaneceré en silencio.”

“El hombre se aferra a los principios mientras éstos no son puestos a prueba, porque cuando eso sucede, uno los desecha igual que el campesino sus viejas abarcas, y corre con todo el vigor que le permiten sus piernas, que para eso las tiene".Otto Von Bismarck – creador del Reich y primer ministro de Prusia

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Las personas geniales surgen precisamente de la diversidad. Anónimo

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“So man, when he resteth and assureth himself, upon divine protection and favor, gathered a force and faith, which human nature in itself could not obtain. Therefore, as atheism is in all respects hateful, so in this, that it depriveth human nature of the means to exalt itself, above human frailty.”

“The contemplative atheist is rare: a Diagoras, a Bion, a Lucian perhaps, and some others; and yet they seem to be more than they are; for that all that impugn a received religion, or superstition, are by the adverse part branded with the name of atheists. But the great atheists, indeed are hypocrites; which are ever handling holy things, but without feeling”

“They that deny a God, destroy man's nobility; for certainly man is of kin to the beasts, by his body; and, if he be not of kin to God, by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature. It destroys likewise magnanimity, and the raising of human nature; for take an example of a dog, and mark what a generosity and courage he will put on, when he finds himself maintained by a man; who to him is instead of a God, or melior natura; which courage is manifestly such, as that creature, without that confidence of a better nature than his own, could never attain.”

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“El mejor guerrero es aquel que consigue transformar al enemigo en amigo” “Hay momentos en que las tribulaciones se presentan y no podemos evitarlas. Están allí por algún motivo, pero solo lo comprendemos cuando las hemos superado.” G.Antuan responde a Paulo: tal vez nunca las comprendamos, más aún la gracia está en aceptarlas.

Paulo Coelho

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-Lo único que me duele de morir es que no sea de amor- Gabriel García Márquez

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Por lo tanto, mi pueblo es llevado cautivo porque no tiene conocimiento, sus nobles se mueren de hambre y la multitud esta seca de sed” Isaías 5:13

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“Geometry existed before the creation. It is co-eternal with the mind of God. Geometry provided God with a model for the creation. Geometry is God himself.”

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“lo que ha permitido la formación del universo inmediatamente después del Big bang es que este no era equilibrado, porque si lo fuera no hubiera existido” “Es precisamente la disipación de energia la que da lugar a que el tiempo vaya en una sola direccion”

Ilya Prigogine (1917-2003) – quimico Ruso ganador premio Nobel que dedico gran parte de su vida al estudio de la termodinamica

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“El azar no es mas que la medida de la ignorancia del hombre”

Jules Henry Poincare (1854-1912)

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“Si añades un poco a lo poco y lo haces así con frecuencia, pronto llegará a ser mucho.”

“La educación ayuda a la persona a aprender a ser lo que es capaz de ser. ”

Hesíodo

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'To be a student and not a revolutionary is a contradiction!'

“Ser joven y no ser revolucionario, es una contradicción hasta biológica.”

Salvador Allende – Presidente de Chile marxista cuyo final culminó en su propio suicidio.

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“Ser original es en cierto modo estar poniendo de manifiesto la mediocridad de los demás. “

“Leer les agrandará, chicos, el deseo, y el horizonte de la vida. “

“Leer les dará una mirada más abierta sobre los hombres y sobre el mundo, y los ayudará a rechazar la realidad como un hecho irrevocable. Esa negación, esa sagrada rebeldía, es la grieta que abrimos sobre la opacidad del mundo. A través de ella puede filtrarse una novedad que aliente nuestro compromiso.”

“Lo he dicho en otras oportunidades y lo reafirmo: la búsqueda de una vida más humana debe comenzar por la educación. “

“Yo creo que la verdad es perfecta para las matemáticas, la química, la filosofía, pero no para la vida. En la vida, la ilusión, la imaginación, el deseo, la esperanza cuentan más. “

“Un creador es un hombre que en algo "perfectamente" conocido encuentra aspectos desconocidos. Pero, sobretodo, es un exagerado. “

"El hombre es un dios cuando sueña y un mendigo cuando piensa"

“Le expliqué que el mundo es una sinfonía, pero que dios toca de oído.”

“El mundo nada puede contra un hombre que canta en la miseria.”

“Para ser humilde se necesita grandeza.”

Ernesto Sábato Hoy 30 de abril de 2011 fallece Ernesto Sábato. Quisiera dedicarle estas palabras: Hoy falleció Ernesto Sábato, pero sé que sus huellas en la tierra no dejarán de mostrarnos tantos deleitosos caminos hacia diversos rincones paradisíacos de nuestra humanidad y existencia. G.Antuan

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There is one purpose to life and one only: to bearwitness to and understand as much as possible of thecomplexity of the world - its beauty, its mysteries, itsriddles. The more you understand, the more you look, thegreater is your enjoyment of life and your sense of peace.

That's all there is to it. If an activity is not grounded in

'to love' or 'to learn,' it does not have value.

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"Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are."

Kurt Cobain – Nirvana’s lead singer

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Podemos mirar el estado presente del universo como el efecto del pasado y la causa de su futuro. Se podría condensar un intelecto que en cualquier momento dado sabría todas las fuerzas que animan la naturaleza y las posiciones de los seres que la componen, si este intelecto fuera lo suficientemente vasto para someter los datos al análisis, podría condensar en una simple fórmula de movimiento de los grandes cuerpos del universo y del átomo más ligero; para tal intelecto nada podría ser incierto y el futuro así como el pasado estarían frente sus ojos.

Laplace

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"We ought not to be embarrassed of appreciating the truth and of obtaining it wherever it comes from, even if it comes from races distant and nations different from us. Nothing should be dearer to the seeker of truth than the truth itself, and there is no deterioration of the truth, nor belittling either of one who speaks it or conveys it."

Al-Kindi (185-256 AH / 805-873 AD - father of Islamic Philosophy. He was also a scientist of high caliber a gifted Mathematician, astronomer, physician and a geographer as well as a talented musician.)

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“The universe can spontaneously create itself out of nothing.”

“Our only change of long term survival is not to remain inward looking on planet earth, but to spread out into space. […] if we want to continue beyond the next hundred years, our future is on space.”

“Lo que he hecho es mostrar que es posible que la forma en que comenzó el universo esté determinada por las leyes de la ciencia. En ese caso, no sería necesario apelar a Dios para decidir cómo comenzó el universo. Esto no prueba que no exista dios, sólo que

Dios no es necesario”. Stephen W. Hawking

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“Un mito es una religión en la que ya nadie cree”.

“a correct understanding that death isnothing to us makes the mortality of life enjoyable,not by adding to life a limitless time, but by takingaway the yearning after immortality.”

“La muerte no nos concierne, pues mientras existimos, la muerte no está presente y cuando llega la muerte nosotros ya no existimos.”

“¿Por qué temer la muerte?, si mientras existimos, ella no existe y cuando existe la muerte, entonces, no existimos nosotros”

Death, therefore,the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that,when we are, death is not come, and, when death iscome, we are not.

the wise seek toenjoy the time which is most pleasant and not merelythat which is longest.

We must remember that the future is neither whollyours nor wholly not ours, so that neither must wecount upon it as quite certain to come nor despair ofit as quite certain not to come.

We must also reflect that of desires some are natural,others are groundless; and that of the natural someare necessary as well as natural, and some naturalonly. And of the necessary desires some arenecessary if we are to be happy, some if the body isto be rid of uneasiness, some if we are even to live.He who has a clear and certain understanding of thesethings will direct every preference and aversiontoward securing health of body and tranquillity ofmind, seeing that this is the sum and end of a happylife.

For the end of all our actions is to be free frompain and fear, and, when once we have attained allthis, the tempest of the soul is laid;

Often we consider pains superior to pleasures whensubmission to the pains for a long time brings us as aconsequence a greater pleasure.

While therefore allpleasure because it is naturally akin to us is good, notall pleasure is should be chosen, just as all pain is anevil and yet not all pain is to be shunned.It is, however, by measuring one against another, and bylooking at the conveniences and inconveniences, thatall these matters must be judged. Sometimes we treatthe good as an evil, and the evil, on the contrary, as agood.

we regard independence of outward things asa great good, not so as in all cases to use little, but soas to be contented with little if we have not much,being honestly persuaded that they have the sweetestenjoyment of luxury who stand least in need of it, andthat whatever is natural is easily procured and onlythe vain and worthless hard to win.

bread and water confer the highest possible pleasure when they are broughtto hungry lips.

By pleasure we mean the absenceof pain in the body and of trouble in the soul. It is notan unbroken succession of drinking-bouts and ofrevelry, not sexual lust, not the enjoyment of the fishand other delicacies of a luxurious table, whichproduce a pleasant life;

Of all this the beginning and the greatest good is wisdom.

[It] teaches that we cannot live pleasantly without livingwisely, honorably, and justly; nor live wisely,honorably, and justly without living pleasantly.For the virtues have grown into one with a pleasant life,

and a pleasant life is inseparable from them.

the misfortune of the wiseis better than the prosperity of the fool.

Epicurus / Epicuro de Samos – fundador del Epicureismo (sus seguidores: epicúreos), filosofía que propugna (defiende) la búsqueda de una vida buena y feliz mediante la administración inteligente de placeres y dolores

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“No pretendas que las cosas ocurran como tu quieres. Desea, más bien, que se produzcan tal como se producen, y serás feliz.”

En otras palabras…acepta y se agradecido. G.Antuan

Epicteto

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“SOMOS LO QUE HACEMOS REPETIDAMENTE.” G.Antuan dice…y recordamos lo que recordamos continuamente.

“Nos volvemos justos realizando actos de justicia; templados, realizando actos de templanza; valientes, realizando actos de valentía”

“El ignorante afirma, el sabio duda y reflexiona.”

“La finalidad del arte es dar cuerpo a la esencia secreta de las cosas, no el copiar su apariencia.”

“No hay que empezar siempre por la noción primera de las cosas que se estudian, sino por aquello que puede facilitar el aprendizaje. “

“No hace falta un gobierno perfecto; se necesita uno que sea práctico.”

‘Elige una mujer de la cual puedas decir: Yo hubiera podido buscarla más bella pero no mejor.”

“Todo hombre, por naturaleza, desea saber.”

“En realidad vivir como hombre significa elegir un blanco -honor, gloria, riqueza, cultura- y apuntar hacia él con toda la conducta, pues no ordenar la vida a un fin es señal de gran necedad.”

“Los seres eternos no se componen de elementos”

The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor. It is a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity in dissimilars."Aristotle, Poetics.

Aristóteles

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¿Quién es, pues, el creador y padre de este Universo? Difícil es encontrarlo; y cuando se ha encontrado, imposible hacer que la multitud lo conozca.

“La música es para el alma lo que la gimnasia para el cuerpo.”

“Lo que no sé, tampoco creo saberlo.”

Platón

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“La ignorancia afirma o niega rotundamente; la ciencia duda.”

"Un gran secreto del goce de la vida consiste en abandonar el placer, manteniendo así la posibilidad de volverlo a gozar."

"Una falsa ciencia hace ateos; una verdadera ciencia postra a los hombres ante la divinidad." …el verdadero ‘corazón’ de Voltaire se revela con estas palabras.

"Una palabra mal colocada estropea el más bello pensamiento."

"Una única cosa le he pedido a Dios, una nimiedad: "Oh, Señor haz ridículos a mis enemigos." Y Dios me la concedió."

"Cualquiera que tenga el poder de hacerte creer idioteces, tiene el poder de hacerte cometer injusticias"

"Todo [tiende a…] les sale bien a las personas de carácter dulce y alegre."

"Suerte es lo que sucede cuando la preparación y la oportunidad se cruzan."

"Dios es un comediante que actúa para una audiencia demasiado asustada para reír."

"Azar es una palabra vacía de sentido; nada puede existir sin causa."

“El que tiene éxtasis, visiones, el que toma los sueños por realidades y sus imaginaciones por profecías es un fanático novicio de grandes esperanzas; podrá pronto llegar a matar por el amor de Dios..."

"El secreto de aburrir a la gente consiste en decirlo todo."

"El trabajo aleja de nosotros tres grandes males: el aburrimiento, el vicio y la necesidad." G.Antuan dice: ya que el aburrimiento es una necesidad de cambio, se puede decir que el trabajo satisface la necesidad y apaga el vicio, la primera – la necesidad - es una condición natural que sirve para impulsar la evolución y la segunda – el vicio -, que representa el llevar a cabo acciones inconscientemente, es el peor mal que sufre la humanidad.

"En el desprecio de la ambición se encuentra uno de los principios esenciales de la felicidad sobre la tierra."

Le voy a permitir decir esto a Voltaire: "Jesucristo necesitó Doce apóstoles para propagar el cristianismo; yo voy a demostrar que basta sólo uno para destruirlo"…pues me causa risa su irrespetuoso atrevimiento y tan solo su acto de libre expresión revela gran verdad y virtud producto de hombres de libertad, pero, espero que se haya referido al imperio de la Iglesia romana y excluyese en particular las bienaventuranzas de Jesucristo.

"Es una de las supersticiones de la mente humana imaginarse que la virginidad pueda ser una virtud."

"Hay alguien tan inteligente que aprende de la experiencia de los demás."

"Hay que saber que no existe país sobre la tierra donde el amor no haya convertido a los amantes en poetas."

"He decidido hacer lo que me gusta porque es bueno para la salud."

"La democracia sólo parece adecuada para un país muy pequeño." G.Antuan dice: Me imagino que lo dice porque un país grande contiene demasiada variedad y gustos diferentes, aunque por otra parte lo puede decir porque la ignorancia siempre proporcional al tamaño del país”.

"La duda no es una condición placentera pero la certeza es absurda."

"La escritura es la pintura de la voz."

"La superstición es a la religión lo que la astrología es a la astronomía, la hija loca de una madre cuerda".

"Los celos cuando son furiosos, producen más crímenes que el interés y la ambición."

"No hay problema que resista el ejercicio continuo del pensamiento."

"No quisiera ser feliz a condición de ser imbécil."

"No se puede desear lo que no se conoce."

"No siempre podemos agradar, pero siempre podemos tratar de ser agradables."

"Nunca veinte volúmenes en papel harán revolución. Son los libros portátiles los que deben temerse. Si el Evangelio hubiese costado mil doscientos sestercios, la religión cristiana nunca se hubiese establecido."

"Pensad por cuenta propia y dejad que los demás disfruten del derecho a hacer lo mismo."

"Proclamo en voz alta la libertad de pensamiento y muera el que no piense como yo." jejejeje

"Si Dios no existiera, sería necesario inventarlo."

"Quien cree que el dinero lo hace todo, termina haciendo todo por el dinero."

Voltaire – Mi ‘comediante’ favorito de la antigüedad; con extrema sabiduría se burla de la estupidez causando en mi risas y mas risas. ……….Muchas frases más, no apropiadas

en este contexto de sabiduría, pero de excelente humor, se encuentran en http://es.wikiquote.org/wiki/Voltaire

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“…what a man earns he usually spends, and in spending he gives employment…in this sense…the real villain, from this point of view, is the man who saves.”

SOBRE PRESTARLE AL GOBIERNO: “In view of the fact that the bulk of the public expenditure of most civilized Governments consists in payment for past wars or preparation for future wars, the man who lends his money to a Government is in the same position as the bad men in Shakespeare who hire murderers.”

“Modern technique has made it possible for leisure, within limits, to be not the prerogative of small privileged classes, but a right evenly distributed throughout the community. The morality of work is the morality of slaves, and the modern world has no need of slavery.”

Russel said: “If He were omnipotent, He could decree the end without troubling about means. I do not myself perceive any consummation toward which the universe is tending.[…]I will not assert dogmatically that there is no cosmic purpose, but I will say that there is no shred of evidence in favor of there being one.” G.Antuan replies: OK BERTRAND, BUT DOESN’T THE MEAR PRESENT EXISTENCE OF THE COSMOS REPRESENT SOME EVIDENCE OF SOME PURPOSE? Wouldn’t simply decreeing the end seem like finding all the joy just on the last page of a wonderful novel sadly ignoring the bulk of its essence and so its full meaning? Wouldn’t it be just like feeding without actually tasting? The outcome does not reveal the purpose, but present pains and glories, justified by all successful struggles are the things that provide the true meaning, an underlying order and ongoing purpose.

Bertrand Russel

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“Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.”

"Individuals may see the moral light and voluntarily give up their unjust posture; but, as Reinhold Niebuhr has reminded us, groups tend to be more immoral than individuals." Letter from Birmingham Jail

“In a real sense all life is inter-related. All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all

indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be, and you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be...

This is the inter-related structure of reality.”

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I’m still waiting, it’s all been to seduce women basically.

That God does not exist, I cannot deny; that my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget. “Que Dios no existe, no lo puedo negar; que todo mi ser clame por Dios, no podré olvidar.”

Jean-Paul Sartre

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No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

Solo hay una guerra que pueda permitirse la especie humana: La guerra contra su propia extinción.

ASIMOV, Isaac

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“Intenta no volverte un hombre de éxito, sino volverte un hombre de valor.

Nunca consideres el estudio como un deber, sino como una oportunidad para penetrar en el maravilloso mundo del saber.

“There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.” G.Antuan note: …and a third way: you can live as if some things are miracles and some things are not. This follows the third model theorem: when there are two working models, the right one is possibly a third model with properties of both.

“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”

“I believe in Spinoza's God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with the fates and actions of human beings.”

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science."

"Si ese ser es omnipotente, entonces cada ocurrencia, incluyendo cada acción humana, cada pensamiento humano y cada sentimiento y aspiración humana también es Su obra; ¿cómo es posible pensar en hacer responsable al hombre por sus actos y pensamientos ante tal Ser todopoderoso? Al dar castigo y recompensas, hasta cierto punto estaría juzgándose a Sí mismo. ¿Cómo puede combinarse esto con la bondad y justicia que se le adjudican? Albert Einstein, Out of My Later Years (New York: Philosophical Library, 1950), p. 27.

No puedo concebir un Dios que recompensa y castiga sus criaturas, o que tenga una voluntad del tipo que experimentamos en nosotros. Tampoco puedo ni quiero concebir un individuo que sobrevive a su muerte física; dejemos que los espíritus débiles, por miedo o por egoísmo absurdo, valoren tales ideas. Yo estoy satisfecho con el misterio de la eternidad de la vida y con la consciencia y el atisbo de la maravillosa estructura del mundo existente, junto con la lucha dedicada a comprender una porción, así sea minúscula, de la Razón que se manifiesta a sí misma en la naturaleza." Albert Einstein, The World as I See It.

“It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.”

Aunque se ha dicho que la fe mueve montañas, la experiencia ha demostrado que la dinamita lo hace mucho mejor.

“[…]our concepts and laws of space and time can only claim validity insofar as they stand in a clear relation to our experiences […]”

'The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.'

“The harmony of natural law […] reveals an intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection.”

EINSTEIN, Albert

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“Los filósofos se han limitado a interpretar el mundo de distintos modos; de lo que se trata es de transformarlo. “

“La religión es el opio del pueblo.”

“El poder político es simplemente el poder organizado de una clase para oprimir a otra. “

“Toda la historia de la sociedad humana, hasta la actualidad, es una historia de lucha de clases.”

Karl Marx

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Bien, la evolución es una teoría. También es un hecho. Y los hechos y las teorías son cosas distintas, no escalones en una jerarquía de certeza creciente. Los hechos son los datos acerca del mundo. Las teorías son estructuras de ideas que explican e interpretan los hechos. Los hechos no desaparecen cuando los científicos debaten teorías rivales para interpretarlos. La teoría de la gravitación de Einstein reemplazó la de Newton en este siglo, pero las manzanas no se quedaron suspendidas en el aire esperando el resultado. Y los humanos evolucionaron de ancestros simiescos ya sea por medio del mecanismo propuesto

por Darwin o por otro que falte por descubrirse. Stephen Jay Gould, "Evolution as Fact and Theory" Science and Creationism, (New York: Oxford University Press, 1984), p. 118.

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“El arte es la mentira que nos permite comprender la verdad.”

“Todo lo que puede ser imaginado es real.”

“Yo hago lo imposible, porque lo posible lo hace cualquiera.”

“Los ordenadores son inútiles. Sólo pueden darte respuestas.” ---G.Antuan dice: Muy cierto, pues contrariamente, mira a un niño…¡ que genialidad !

Pablo Picasso

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“Yo soy una parte de todo aquello que he encontrado en mi camino.”

Alfred Tennyson, poeta inglés (1809-1892)

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“El hecho que un creyente pueda ser más feliz que un escéptico es tan cierto como decir que el borracho es más feliz que el hombre sobrio”. George Bernard Shaw -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------“Estoy harto de todas las religiones. La religión ha dividido a la gente. No creo que haya diferencia entre el Papa usando su sombrero grande, paseando entre feligreses con una cartera humeante y un africano pintándose la cara blanca y rezándole a una piedra”. Howard Stern-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

“Volved a emprender veinte veces vuestra obra, pulidla sin cesar y volvedla a pulir.”

Nicolás Boileau, poeta francés (1636-1711)

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“Our passion for learning is the tool for our survival”

“What an astonishing thing a book is. [...] One glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years, across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside you head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never new each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic. This room [a library] is filled with magic. […] Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. A library connects us with the insights and knowledge of greatest minds and the best teachers drawn from the whole planet and from all our history, to instruct us without tiring and to inspire us to make our own contributions to the collective knowledge of the human species. […] Books are like seeds, they can lie dormant for centuries, but they may also produce flowers in the most unpromising soil.“ Carl Sagan – Cosmos (The Persistence of Memory - part 11)

“...species...They're packed with information.Each one hasa rich behavioral repertoire......to ensure its own survival.” Carl Sagan – The persistence of Memory – Cosmos Part 11

“These people were ready to experiment. Once you are open to questioning rituals – time honored practices – you find that one question leads to another” Carl Sagan – The backbone of Night – Cosmos Part 7

“When these practical men turned their attention to the natural world, they began to uncover hidden wonder and breathtaking possibilities” Carl Sagan – The backbone of Night – Cosmos Part 7

“In our personal lives also we journey from ignorance to knowledge. Our individual growth reflects the advancement of the species. The exploration of the cosmos is a voyage of self-discovery.”Carl Sagan – The backbone of Night – Cosmos Part 7

Carl Sagan

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“Un optimista ve una oportunidad en toda calamidad, un pesimista ve una calamidad en toda oportunidad.”

“Las citas, cuando quedan esculpidas en nuestra memoria, nos

sugieren pensamientos originales; además, despiertan en

nosotros el deseo de leer a los autores de los cuales han sido

tomadas.”

Winston Churchill, político inglés (1874-1965)

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Translation#1: “The ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God.”Traslation#2: “It is thus that the ultimate reason for things must be a necessary substance, in which the detail of the changes shall be present merely potentially, as in the fountainhead, and this substance we call God.” Excerpt from Leibniz’s Monadology

Leibniz on the qualities of God: “We may hold that the supreme substance, which is unique, universal and necessary with nothing independent outside of it, which is further a pure sequence of possible being, must be incapable of limitation and must contain as much reality as possible. Whence it follows that God is absolutely perfect, perfection being understood as the magnitude of positive reality in the strict sense, when the limitations or the bounds of those things which have them are removed. There where there are no limits, that is to say, in God, perfection is absolutely infinite. […] It is true, furthermore, that in God is found not only the source of existences, but also that of essences, in so far as they are real. In other words, he is the source of whatever there is real in the possible. This is because the Understanding of God is in the region of eternal truths or of the ideas upon which

they depend, and because without him there would be nothing real in the possibilities of things, and not only would nothing be existent, nothing would be even possible.”

Then Leibniz, like Descartes, claimed he proved by reason alone, the existence of God: “Therefore God alone (or the Necessary Being) has this prerogative that if he be possible he must necessarily exist, and, as nothing is able to prevent the possibility of that which involves no bounds, no negation and consequently, no contradiction, this alone is sufficient to establish a priori his existence. We have, therefore, proved his existence through the reality of eternal truths. But a little while ago we also proved it a posteriori, because contingent beings exist which can have their ultimate and sufficient reason only in the necessary being which, in turn, has the reason for existence in itself.”

“Now as there are an infinity of possible universes in the ideas of God, but only one of them can exist, there must be a sufficient reason' for the choice of God which determines him to select one rather than another. And this reason is to be found only in the fitness or in the degree of perfection which these worlds possess, each possible thing having the right to claim existence in proportion to the perfection which it involves.”

Leibniz explains existence, as the universal greatest degree of perfection achieved through God’s selection of infinite possibilities or dimensions: “And as the same city regarded from different sides appears entirely different, and is, as it were multiplied respectively, so, because of the infinite number of simple substances, there are a similar infinite number of universes which are, nevertheless, only the aspects of a single one as seen from the special point of view of each monad. Through this means has been obtained the greatest possible variety, together with the greatest order that may be; that is to say, through this means has been obtained the greatest possible perfection. [Every substance expresses exactly all others through the relation which it has with them]” G.Antuan says: Quite right Leibniz, there isn’t anything that excludes the rest, that is, every single thing is or happens according to everything else or according to its relation with everything else. Infinity exist within every finite manifestation. But, Leibniz does not entirely approve this point of view, when he says: “and since the monad is by its very nature representative, nothing can limit it to represent merely a part of things. It is nevertheless true that this representation is, as regards the details of the whole universe, only a confused representation, and is distinct only as regards a small part of them, that is to say, as regards those things which are nearest or greatest in relation to each monad. If the representation were distinct as to the details of the entire Universe, each monad would be a Deity. It is not in the object represented that the monads are limited, but in the modifications of their knowledge of the object. In a confused way they reach out to infinity or to the whole, but are limited and differentiated in the degree of their distinct perceptions.” I understand its his attempt to justify imperfections, but imperfections would be what he calls contingent truth’s or truth’s of fact, so he has no need to define monad imperfection. But, maybe I misunderstood his previous thought because he then says: “Consequently every body responds to all that happens in the universe, so that he who saw all could read in each one what is happening everywhere, and even what has happened and what will happen. He can discover in the present what is distant both as regards space and as regards time; ‘all things conspire’ as Hippocrates said. A soul can, however, read in itself only what is there represented distinctly. It cannot all at once open up all its folds, because they extend to infinity. Thus although each created monad represents the whole universe, it represents more distinctly the body which specially pertains to it and of which it constitutes the

entelechy. And as this body expresses all the universe through the interconnection of all matter in the plenum, the soul also represents the whole universe in representing this body, which belongs to it in a particular way. […the universe is represented in the soul] Therefore every organic body of a living being is a kind of divine machine or natural automaton, infinitely surpassing all artificial automatons. Because a machine constructed by man's skill is not a machine in each of its parts; for instance, the teeth of a brass wheel have parts or bits which to us are not artificial products and contain nothing in themselves to show the use to which the wheel was destined in the machine. The machines of nature, however, that is to say, living bodies, are still machines in their smallest parts ad infinitum. Such is the difference between nature and art, that is to say, between divine art and ours. The author of nature has been able to employ this divine and infinitely marvellous artifice, because each portion of matter is not only, as the ancients recognised, infinitely divisible, but also because it is really divided without end, every part into other parts, each one of which has its own proper motion. Otherwise it would be impossible for each portion of matter to express all the universe. Whence we see that there is a world of created things, of living beings, of animals, of entelechies, of souls, in the minutest particle of matter. Every portion of matter may be conceived as like a garden full of plants and like a pond full of fish. But every branch of a plant, every member of an animal, and every drop of the fluids within it, is also such a garden or such a pond. And although the ground and air which lies between the plants of the garden, and the water which is between the fish in the pond, are not themselves plants or fish, yet they nevertheless contain these, usually so small however as to be imperceptible to us. There is, therefore, nothing uncultivated, or sterile or dead in the universe, no chaos, no confusion, save in appearance; somewhat as a pond would appear at a distance when we could see in it a confused movement, and so to speak, a swarming of the fish, without however discerning the fish themselves. It is evident, then, that every living body has a dominating entelechy, which in animals is the soul. The parts, however, of this living body are full of other living beings, plants and animals, which in turn have each one its entelechy or dominating soul.” *comment from G.Antuan: These words blossom from the deepest feelings of meaning and beauty a human could ever derive.

“There is frequently a morphosis (change/transformation) in animals, but never metempsychosis or a transmigration of souls. Neither are there souls wholly separate from bodies, nor bodiless spirits. God alone is without body.”

“Philosophers have been much perplexed in accounting for the origin of forms, entelechies, or souls. Today, however, when it has been learned through careful investigations made in plant, insect and animal life, that the organic bodies of nature are never the product of chaos or putrefaction, but always come from seeds in which there was without doubt some preformation, it has been decided that not only is the organic body already present before conception, but also a soul in this body, in a word, the animal itself”

Leibniz’s appreciation for Descartes (expressed by Leibniz himself): “Descartes saw that souls cannot at all impart force to bodies, because there is always the same quantity of force in matter. Yet he thought that the soul could change the direction of bodies. This was, however, because at that time the law of nature which affirms also that conservation of the same total direction in the motion of matter was not known.

If he had known that law, he would have fallen upon my system of preestablished harmony.”

“[...animals and souls begin from the very commencement of the world and that they no more come to an end than does the world.]”

“[…while souls in general are living mirrors or images of the universe of created things, spirits are also images of the Deity himself or of the author of nature. They are capable of knowing the system of the universe, and of imitating some features of it by means of artificial models, each spirit being like a small divinity in its own sphere. Therefore, spirits are able to enter into a sort of social relationship with God, and with respect to them he is not only what an inventor is to his machine (as in his relation to the other created things), but he is also what a prince is to his subjects, and even what a Father is to his children. Whence it is easy to conclude that the totality of all spirits must compose the city of God, that is to say, the most perfect state that is possible under the most perfect monarch.]”

“[... there is no entire destruction or absolute death.] [...] Therefore we may say that not only the soul (the mirror of the indestructible universe) is indestructible, but also the animal itself is, although its mechanism is frequently destroyed in parts and although it puts off and takes on organic coatings. These principles have furnished me the means of explaining on natural grounds the union, or rather the conformity between the soul and the organic body. The soul follows its own laws, and the body likewise follows its own laws. They are fitted to each other in virtue of the preestablished harmony between all substances since they are all representations of one and the same universe.”

“Besides, in what has just been said can be seen the a priori reasons why things cannot be otherwise than they are. It is because God, in ordering the whole, has had regard to every part[…]”

“Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting. “

“Whence it follows that God is absolutely perfect, since perfection is nothing but magnitude of positive reality, in the strict sense, setting aside the limits or bounds in things which are limited.”

“The memory furnishes a sort of consecutiveness which imitates reason but is to be distinguished from it. We see that animals when they have the perception of something which they notice and. of which they have had a similar previous perception, are led by the representation of their memory to expect that which was associated in the preceding perception, and they come to have feelings like those which they had before. For instance, if a stick be shown to a dog, he remembers the pain which it has caused him and he whines or runs away.”

“Our reasoning is based upon two great principles: first, that of contradiction, by means of which we decide that to be false which involves contradiction and that to be true which contradicts or is opposed to the false. And second, the principle of sufficient reason, in

virtue of which we believe that no fact can be real or existing and no statement true unless it has a sufficient reason why it should be thus and not otherwise. Most frequently, however, these reasons cannot be known by us.”

“There are also two kinds of truths: those of reasoning and those of fact. The truths of reasoning are necessary, and their opposite is impossible. Those of fact, however, are contingent (not necessarily true always), and their opposite is possible. When a truth is necessary, the reason can be found by analysis in resolving it into simpler ideas and into simpler truths until we reach those which are primary.”

“[…],the analysis into more particular reasons can be continued into greater detail without limit because of the immense variety of the things in nature and because of the infinite division of bodies. There is an infinity of figures and of movements, present and past, which enter into the efficient cause of my present writing, and in its final cause there are an infinity of slight tendencies and dispositions of my soul, present and past.”

Leibniz’s Monadology conclusion:“Finally, under this perfect government, there will be no good action unrewarded and no evil action unpunished; everything must turn out for the well-being of the good; that is to say, of those who are not disaffected in this great state, who, after having done their duty, trust in Providence and who love and imitate, as is meet, the Author of all Good, delighting in the contemplation of his perfections according to the nature of that genuine, pure love which finds pleasure in the happiness of those who are loved. It is for this reason that wise and virtuous persons work in behalf of everything which seems conformable to presumptive or antecedent will of God, and are, nevertheless, content with what God actually brings to pass through his secret, consequent and determining will, recognising that if we were able to understand sufficiently well the order of the universe, we should find that it surpasses all the desires of the wisest of us, and that it is impossible to render it better than it is, not only for all in general, but also for each one of us in particular, provided that we have the proper attachment for the author of all, not only as the Architect and the efficient cause of our being, but also as our Lord and the Final Cause, who ought to be the whole goal of our will, and who alone can make us happy.”

Gottfried Leibniz

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“La más estricta justicia no creo que sea siempre la mejor política.”

Abraham Lincoln, estadista estadounidense (1809-1865)

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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.

All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.

If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

“ […] so shocking that the only emotionally valid reaction is rage and a call for extreme actions. But that does not help the victims. And, in fact, it's likely to harm them.”

“If you are giving a graduate course you don't try to impress the students with oratory, you try to challenge them, get them to question you.”

“If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.”

“If you're in favour of any policy - reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever - if you're at least minimally moral, it's because you think it's somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.”

“If you're working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.”

“Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That's human nature.” G.Antuan: I’d add to this the following thought: Part of human nature is having unnatural behaviors; humans are the product of nature with the capability to stand beyond nature, that is, it’s within our nature the capability to transcend nature and to command it to our will.

“Remember, weapons of mass destruction don't mean missiles.”

“One of the problems of organizing in the North, in the rich countries, is that people tend to think - even the activists - that instant gratification is required. You constantly hear: 'Look I went to a demonstration, and we didn't stop the war so what's the use of doing it again?”

“If a child from an Amazonian hunter-gatherer tribe comes to Boston, is raised in Boston, that child will be indistinguishable in language capacities from my children growing up here, and vice versa.”

Noam Chomsky – Social, philosophical and political educator. Chomsky is keenly insightful in historical issues and the underlying hidden forces shaping these. *His

readings were emphatically recommended by genius comedian Bill Hicks as a way to clear your view of illusion and opening your eyes to reality.

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“Ningún descubrimiento se haría ya si nos contentásemos con lo que sabemos.”

Séneca, filósofo romano

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“Un error no se convierte en verdad por el hecho de que todo el mundo crea en él.”

"Live as if you are to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”

“Ayúdame a decir la verdad frente a los fuertes y a no decir mentiras para ganarme el aplauso de los débiles.”

Mahatma Gandhi, abogado, político indio (1869-1948)

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“What sort of philosophy one chooses depends therefore on what sort of man one is, for a philosophical system is not a dead piece of furniture that we can reject or accept as we wish, it is rather a thing animated by the soul of the person who holds it”

Victor Hugo

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“Lo que no te mata, te hace más fuerte.”

“Sin música la vida sería un error. “

“¡Que poco se requiere para ser feliz!... El sonido de una gaita.”

“La verdad es que amamos la vida, no porque estemos acostumbrados a ella, sino porque estamos acostumbrados al amor.”

“Todo idealismo frente a la necesidad es un engaño.”

“Una alianza es mas sólida si los aliados, mas bien que conocerse mutuamente, creen los unos en los otros: por ello, entre enamorados, la alianza es mas sólida antes que después de la unión matrimonial.”

“Toda convicción es una cárcel. “

“Es preciso aprender a amar y a ser bondadosos, y eso, desde la juventud; si ni la educaci6n ni el azar nos proporcionan ocasión de ejercitar tales sentimientos, nuestra alma se volverá seca e incluso inepta para comprender las delicadas invenciones de las personas amables. También es preciso que el odio sea aprendido y alimentado, si queremos llegar a ser buenos odiadotes. De lo contrario también su germen ira muriendo poco a poco. “

“Que es el amor sino comprender y alegrarse de que otro viva, actué de y sienta de manera diferente y opuesta a la nuestra? Para que el amor supere con la alegría los antagonismos no debería suprimirlos, negarlos. Incluso el amor a si mismo contiene como presupuesto suyo la dualidad (o la pluralidad) indisoluble, en una sola persona.”

“Lo que se hace por amor acontece siempre mas allá del bien y del mal.”

“Los grandes intelectos son escépticos.”

“Fe: no querer saber la verdad.”

“No puedo creer en un dios que quiera ser alabado todo el tiempo.”

“Cuanto más se eleva un hombre, más pequeño les parece a los que no saben volar. “

“Y el hombre, en su orgullo, creó a dios a su imagen y semejanza.”

“El mundo real es mucho más pequeño que el mundo de la imaginación. “

“Hay siempre un poco de locura en el amor. Más también hay siempre un poco de razón en la locura. “

“Un amigo debe ser maestro en el arte de adivinar y de callar.”

“Dos cosas quiere el hombre de verdad: el peligro y el juego. Por eso quiere la mujer, que es el juguete más peligroso.”

“Y el que apetezca la gloria debe despedirse a tiempo del honor y dominar el arte difícil de irse en el momento oportuno. “

“Hay que dejar de ser bocado en el momento en que se alcanza el pleno sabor; esto lo saben todos los que desean ser amados durante largo tiempo.”

“El hombre del conocimiento debe no solamente saber amar a sus enemigos, sino también saber odiar a sus amigos.”

“Estoy herido de mi felicidad; han de curarme todos los que sufren.”

“Y muchas veces vacías la copa en tu afán de llenarla.”

“Pues mi noción de la justicia es ésta: los hombres no son iguales.”

“Y quien ansia superarse creando posee la voluntad más pura.”

“¿Donde está la belleza? Allí donde uno tiene que querer con toda la fuerza de voluntad; allí donde uno quiere amar y perecer, para que tal imagen deje de ser nada más que imagen. Amar y perecer; desde todas las eternidades lo uno está ligado a lo otro.”

“El que no cree en si mismo miente siempre. “

“Y mi noción del conocimiento es: elevar toda profundidad hacia mi altura.”

“Estoy demasiado enardecido y abrasado por pensamientos propios, a tal punto que muchas veces me siento sofocado.”

“Son inocentes, aun en su malicia.”

“Soy de hoy y de siempre...Pero hay en mi algo que es de mañana.”

“La ciencia moderna tiene como meta: el menor dolor posible, la vida más larga posible, es decir, una especie de eterna bienaventuranza, ciertamente muy modesta en comparación con la prometida por las religiones.”

“El diablo mira con envidia a quien sufre mucho y lo expulsa al cielo.”

“Todo pensador profundo tiene más miedo a ser entendido que a ser malentendido.”

“Para vivir sólo es preciso ser un animal o un dios -dice Aristóteles. Falta el tercer caso: hay que ser ambas cosas: un filósofo.”

“En la realidad no ocurre nada que corresponda rigurosamente a la lógica.”

"Sé al menos mi enemigo"... Así habla el verdadero respeto que no se atreve a implorar amistad.

“La persona que tiene mucha alegría es necesariamente buena: pero tal vez no sea la más lista, aunque consigue precisamente aquello que la más lista trata de conseguir con toda su listeza.”

“¡La doctrina de la igualdad!... Pero si no existe veneno más venenoso que ése: pues esa doctrina parece ser predicada por la justicia misma, mientras que es el final de la justicia..."Igualdad para los iguales, desigualdad para los desiguales" - ése seria el verdadero discurso de la justicia: y, lo que de ahí se sigue, "no igualar jamás a los desiguales". “

“La igualdad hace disminuir la felicidad del individuo, pero abre la vía para la ausencia de dolor de todos. Al final de la meta estaría ciertamente la ausencia de dolor, pero también la ausencia de felicidad.”

“Es bien sabido que la ciencia y el nacionalismo son cosas que se contradicen, aunque los monederos falsos de la política nieguen ocasionalmente ese saber: pero también llegará -¡por fin! - el día en que se comprenderá que sólo para su daño puede ahora toda cultura superior seguir cercada por vallas nacionales.”

“La cultura y el Estado -no nos engañemos sobre esto- son rivales: el "Estado de cultura" no pasa de ser una idea moderna. Lo uno vive de lo otro, lo uno prospera a costa de lo otro. Todas las épocas grandes de la cultura son épocas de decadencia política: lo que es grande en el sentido de la cultura ha sido apolítico, incluso antipolítico.”

“Las mentes más profundas de todos los tiempos han sentido compasión por los animales.”

Excepts from Beyond Good And Evil:

Having kept a sharp eye on philosophers, and having read between their lines long enough, I now say to myself that the greater part of conscious thinking must be counted amongst the instinctive functions, and it is so even in the case of philosophical thinking; one has here to learn anew, as one learned anew about heredity and "innateness." As little as the act of birth comes into consideration in the whole process and procedure of heredity, just as little is "being-conscious" opposed to the instinctive in any decisive sense; the greater part of the conscious thinking of a philosopher is secretly influenced by his instincts, and forced into definite channels. And behind all logic and its seeming sovereignty of movement, there are valuations, or to speak more plainly, physiological demands, for the maintenance of a definite mode of life. For example, that the certain is worth more than the uncertain, that illusion is less valuable than "truth": such valuations, in spite of their regulative importance for us, might notwithstanding be only superficial valuations, special kinds of niaiserie, such as may be necessary for the maintenance of beings such as ourselves. Supposing, in effect, that man is not just the "measure of things.".

The question is, how far an opinion is life-furthering, life-preserving, species-preserving, perhaps species-rearing; and we are fundamentally inclined to maintain that the falsest opinions (to which the synthetic judgments a priori belong), are the most indispensable to us; that without a recognition of logical fictions, without a comparison of reality with the purely imagined world of the absolute and immutable, without a constant counterfeiting of the world by means of numbers, man could not live - that the renunciation of false opinions would be a renunciation of life, a negation of life. To recognise untruth as a condition of life: that is certainly to impugn the traditional ideas of value in a dangerous manner, and a philosophy which ventures to do so, has thereby alone placed itself beyond good and evil.

It has gradually become clear to me what every great philosophy up till now has consisted of - namely, the confession of its originator, and a species of involuntary and unconscious autobiography; and moreover that the moral (or immoral) purpose in every philosophy has constituted the true vital germ out of which the entire plant has always grown.

[…]they have all practiced philosophy at one time or another, and that each one of them would have been only too glad to look upon itself as the ultimate end of existence and the legitimate lord over all the other

impulses.[…] The actual "interests" of the scholar, therefore, are generally in quite another direction - in the family, perhaps, or in money-making, or in politics; it is, in fact, almost indifferent at what point of research his little machine is placed, and whether the hopeful young worker becomes a good philologist, a mushroom specialist, or a chemist; he is not characterised by becoming this or that. In the philosopher, on the contrary, there is absolutely nothing impersonal, and above all, his morality furnishes a decided and decisive testimony as to who he is, - that is to say, in what order the deepest impulses of his nature stand to each other.

Greece took a hundred years to find out who the garden-god Epicurus really was. Did she ever find out?

“You desire to live "according to Nature "? Oh, you noble Stoics, what fraud of words! Imagine to yourselves a being like Nature, boundlessly extravagant, boundlessly indifferent, without purpose or consideration, without pity or justice, at once fruitful and barren and uncertain: imagine to yourselves indifference as a power - how could you live in accordance with such indifference? To live - is not that just endeavouring to be otherwise

than this Nature? Is not living valuing, preferring, being unjust, being limited, endeavoring to be different? And granted that your imperative, "living according to Nature," means actually the same as "living according to life - how could you do differently? Why should you make a principle out of what you yourselves are, and must be? In reality, however, it is quite otherwise with you: while you pretend to read with rapture the canon of your law in Nature, you want something quite the contrary, you extraordinary stage-players and self-deluders! In your pride you wish to dictate your morals and ideals to Nature, to Nature herself, and to incorporate them therein; you insist that it shall be Nature "'according to the Stoa," and would like everything to be made after your own image, as a vast, eternal glorification and generalization of Stoicism! With all your love for truth, you have forced yourselves so long, so persistently, and with such hypnotic rigidity to see Nature falsely, that is to say, Stoically, that you are no longer able to see it otherwise […] as soon as ever a philosophy begins to believe in itself. It always creates the world in its own image; it cannot do otherwise; philosophy is this tyrannical impulse itself, the most spiritual Will to Power, the will to "creation of the world," the will to the causa prima.”

“And others say even that the external world is the work of our organs? But then our body, as a part of this external world, would be the work of our organs! But then our organs themselves would be the work of our

organs! It seems to me that this is a complete reductio ad

absurdum, if the conception causa sui is something fundamentally absurd. Consequently, the external world is not the work of our organs -?”

There are still harmless self-observers who believe that there are "immediate certainties"; for instance, "I think," or as the superstition of Schopenhauer puts it, "I will "; as though cognition here got hold of its object purely and simply as "the thing in itself," without any falsification taking place either on the part of the subject or the object. I would repeat it, however, a hundred times, that "immediate certainty," as well as "absolute knowledge" and the "thing in itself," involve a contradictio in adjecto; we really ought to free ourselves from the misleading significance of words! The people on their part may think that cognition is knowing all about things, but the philosopher must say to himself: "When I analyse the process that is expressed in the sentence, 'I think,' I find a whole series of daring assertions, the argumentative proof of which would be difficult, perhaps impossible: for instance, that it is I who think, that there must necessarily be something thahinks, that thinking is an activity and operation on the part of a being who is thought of as a cause, that there is an "ego," and finally, that it is already determined what is to be designated by thinking - that I know whahinking is. For if I had not already decided within myself what it is, by what standard could I determine whether that which is just happening is not perhaps 'willing' or 'feeling'? In short, the assertion 'I think,' assumes that I compare my state at the present moment with other states of myself which I know, in order to determine what it is; on account of this retrospective connection with further 'knowledge,' it has at any rate no immediate certainty for me." - In place of the "immediate certainty" in which the people may believe in the special case, the philosopher thus finds a series of physical questions presented to him, veritable conscience questions of the intellect, to wit: "From whence did I get the notion of 'thinking'? Why do I believe in cause and effect? What gives me the right to speak of an 'ego,' and even of an 'ego' as cause, and finally of an 'ego ' as cause of thought?" He who ventures to answer these physical questions at once by an appeal to a sort of intuitive perception, like the person who says, "I think, and know that this, at least, is true, actual, and certain" - will encounter a smile and two notes of interrogation in a philosopher nowadays. "Sir," the philosopher will perhaps give him to understand, "it is improbable that you are not mistaken, but why should it be the truth?"

the separate philosophical ideas are not anything optional or autonomously evolving, but grow up in connection and relationship with each other; that, however suddenly and arbitrarily they seem to appear in the history of thought, they nevertheless belong just as much to a system as the collective members of the fauna of a Continent - is betrayed in the

end by the circumstance: how unfailingly the most diverse philosophers always fill in again a definite fundamental scheme of possible philosophies. Under an invisible spell, they always revolve once more in the same orbit; however independent of each other they may feel themselves with their critical or systematic wills, something within them leads them, something impels them in definite order the one after the other - to wit, the innate methodology and relationship of their ideas Their thinking is in fact far less a discovery than a re-recognising, a remembering, a return and a homecoming to a far-off, ancient common-household of the soul, out of which those ideas formerly grew: philosophising is so far a kind of atavism of the highest order. The wonderful family resemblance of all Indian, Greek, and German philosophising is easily enough explained. In fact, where there is affinity of language, owing to the common philosophy of grammar - I mean owing to the unconscious domination and guidance of similar grammatical functions - it cannot but be that everything is prepared at the outset for a similar development and succession of philosophical systems; just as the way seems barred against certain other possibilities of world-interpretation. It is highly probable that philosophers within the domain of the Ural-Altaic languages (where the conception of the subject is least developed? Look otherwise "into the world," and will be found on paths of thought different from those of the Indo-Germans and Mussulmans, the spell of certain grammatical functions is ultimately also the spell of physiological valuations and racial conditions. - So much by way of rejecting Locke's superficiality with regard to the origin of ideas.

The causa sui (note: cause over one self) is the best self-contradiction that has yet been conceived, it is a sort of logical violation and unnaturalness; but the extravagant pride of man has managed to entangle itself profoundly and frightfully with this very folly. The desire for "freedom of will" in the superlative, physical sense, such as still holds sway, unfortunately, in the minds of the half-educated, the desire to bear the entire and ultimate responsibility for one's actions oneself, and to absolve God, the world, ancestors, chance, and society therefrom, involves nothing less than to be precisely this causa sui; and, with more than Munchausen daring, to pull oneself up into existence by the hair, out

of the slough of nothingness. If any one should find out in this manner the crass stupidity of the celebrated conception of "free will" and put it out of his head altogether, I beg of him to carry his "enlightenment" a step further, and also put out of his head the contrary of this monstrous conception of "free will ": I mean "non-free will," which is tantamount (equivalent) to a misuse of cause and effect. One should not wrongly materialise "cause" and "effect," as the natural philosophers do (and whoever like them naturalise in thinking at present), according to the prevailing mechanical doltishness (stupid notion) which makes the cause press and push until it "effects" its end; one should use "cause" and

"effect" only as pure conceptions, that is to say, as conventional fictions for the purpose of designation and mutual understanding, - not for explanation. In "being-in-itself" there is nothing of "causal-connection," of "necessity!" or of "psychological non-freedom" there the effect does not follow the cause, there "law" does not obtain. It is we alone who have devised cause, sequence, reciprocity, relativity, constraint, number, law, freedom, motive, and purpose; and when we interpret and intermix this symbol-world, as "being in itself," with things, we act once more as we have always acted - mythologically. The "non-free will" is mythology; in real life it is only a question of strong and weak wills.

…Antuan’s commentary: Nietzsche’s attack on a “mythological non-free will” bluntly tries to set humans at the center of all cause, but fails to provide any logical or valid reasons for this assumption and even contradicts himself after just having asserted ‘the crass stupidity of the celebrated conception of free will’. It’s either one or the other and I’m more the deterministic type, I accept all things and with complete thankfulness empower peace over my existence.

Kant was first and foremost proud of his Table of Categories; with it in his hand he said: "This is the most difficult thing that could ever be undertaken on behalf of physics." Let us only understand this "could be"! He was proud of having discovered a new faculty in man, the faculty of synthetic judgment a priori: Granting that he deceived himself in this matter; the development and rapid flourishing of German philosophy depended nevertheless on his pride, and on the eager rivalry of the younger generation to discover if possible something - at all events "new faculties" - of which to be still prouder!" - But let us reflect for a moment - it is high time to do so. "How are synthetic judgments a priori possible?" Kant asks himself - and what is really his answer? "By means of a means (faculty)" - but unfortunately not in five words, but so circumstantially, imposingly, and with such display of German profundity and verbal flourishes, that one altogether loses sight of the comical niaiserie allemande involved in such an answer. People were beside themselves with delight over this new faculty, and the jubilation reached its climax when Kant further discovered a moral faculty in man - for at that time Germans were still moral, not yet dabbling in the "Politics of hard fact." Then came the honeymoon of German philosophy. All the young theologians of the Tübingen institution went immediately into the groves - all seeking for "faculties." And what did they not find - in that innocent, rich, and still youthful period of the German spirit, to which Romanticism, the malicious fairy, piped and sang, when one could not yet distinguish between "finding" and "inventing"! Above all a faculty for the "transcendental "; Schelling christened it, intellectual intuition, and thereby gratified the most earnest longings of the naturally pious-inclined Germans. One can do no greater wrong to the whole of this exuberant and eccentric movement (which was really youthfulness,

notwithstanding that it disguised itself so boldly in hoary and senile conceptions), than to take it seriously, or even treat it with enough moral indignation, however - the world grew older, and the dream vanished. But such replies belong to the realm of comedy, and it is high time to replace the Kantian question, "How are synthetic judgments a priori possible?" by another question, "Why is belief in such judgments

necessary?"

- Friedrich NietzscheG.Antuan says: Nietzsche cries for a clear view, he has deeply studied the weakness of his own human vision and strives courageously to overcome its limitations aiming at hights the human mind has not achieved before. Its almost impossible to see through our defected eyes or mind or the totality of our misleading senses, and ever worse is the false world, concepts, a priori fantasies, we have built to understand that which we didn’t seemed to have the means to understand! Platonist are certainly headed nowhere, they are mere abstract painters, artist and entertainers of the conscious. Nietzsche’s search for unbiased, formal, and practical reason, leads to the rediscovery of the glorious Epicurious.

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El mejor juguete de un niño es... otro niño -Rafael Soriano

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"Toda persona piensa que el mundo gira alrededor de ellos mismos, pero no saben que gira alrredor mio" Danny Donati

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“Poder disfrutar de los recuerdos de la vida es vivir dos veces.”

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Comprenderlo todo es perdonarlo todo.

Tolstoy León

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El miedo es el temor a lo desconocido, lo desconocido es reflejo de lo que se ignora, por tanto quien teme ignora.

Fffeuer – citasyrefranes.com

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Si la vida ha cruzado nuestros caminos una vez no tiene por que no hacerlo de nuevo.

Ricardo E.Guzman – citasyrefranes.com

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Lo mejor que te puede pasar en la vida es que ames y seas correspondido.

Moulin Rouge

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“I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success... Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.”

“The gift of mental power comes from God, Divine Being, and if we concentrate our minds on that truth, we become in tune with this great power.My Mother had taught me to seek all truth in the Bible.”

Nicola Tesla – inventor, electrical engineer

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“Minds are like parachutes... they only function when open."

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“…to criticism (criticism = study by the use of reason) everything must submit…, [all those that may seek to exempt from it] can not claim a sincere respect …[they must] sustain the test of free and open examination.” “Everywhere I hear: Don’t argue!…all of these [everywhere] means restrictions!”

“Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.”

“Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.”

“Immaturity is the inability to use one’s own understanding (intelligence) without the guidance of another”

“Think for yourself! Have courage to use your own understanding!”

“I HAVE HAD TO LIMIT REASON TO MAKE ROOM FOR FAITH”

“I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.”

“He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.”

"If there is a science which men need it is the science which will teach what one must be in order to be a man”

“Time is not an empirical concept that has been derived from experience” “The original representation of space is an a priory intuition”

“The human being is thus fitted to be a member in a possible realm of ends to which his own nature already has destined him”

“As an end in himself, man is destined to be legislative in the realm of ends, free from all laws of nature, and obedient only to those which he gives to himself, his universal maxims belong to a legislation to which he is at the same time subject.”

“Act only according to that maxim by which you can at the same time view that it should become a universal law of nature” G.Antuan note: But the universe is not made of equal things, thus to treat yourself as you would treat anything else would violate your essence, limit your creativity and diminish the contributions and true values your

uniqueness or individuality. What is then a universal law in such a rich and diverse universe?

“…humanity in each person must be holy to him…he is the subject of the moral law and this condition requires that the person never be used as a means, except when he is at the same time an end. We may even impose this condition on the Divine Will with respect to the rational beings which are his creatures.” (BELLO!!)

“Sapere Aude !” Atrevete a saber !

“In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.”

“Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.”

“Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.”

Kant – (the man that calls God “The Divine Will”)

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“A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.”

“He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance.”

“Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.”

“It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.”

“It's when we start working together that the real healing takes place... it's when we start spilling our sweat, and not our blood.”“Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.”

“A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.”

“A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.”

“There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it.”

“The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst. “

David Hume

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En este pequeño recinto(Atenas, Grecia), se pusieron los cimientos de toda la civilización europea. Palabras como “política” y “democracia”, “economía” e “historia”, “biología” y “física”, “matemáticas” y “lógica”, “teología” y “filosofía”, “ética” y “psicología”, “teoría” y “método”, “idea” y “sistema”, “academia” y muchas, muchas más, proceden de un pequeño pueblo que vivía en torno a esta plaza.

Jostein Gaarder – El Mundo de Sofía

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“Cada ley es una infracción a la libertad.”

“La naturaleza ha colocado a la humanidad bajo el gobierno de dos amos soberanos: el dolor y el placer. Ellos nos señalan lo que tenemos que hacer. “

“Los abogados son las únicas personas a quienes la ignorancia de la ley no los castiga.”

“Los seres humanos son motivados únicamente por el deseo de obtener placer y evitar el dolor.”

“Es inútil hablar de los intereses de la comunidad, sin entender cuál es el interés de la persona.”

“Estirar la mano hasta llegar a las estrellas, con demasiada frecuencia, hace olvidar las flores en sus pies.”

Jeremy Bentham – padre del Utilitarismo. G.Antuan dice: El utilitarismo es una versión moderna de la gran sabiduría de Epicureo (epicureismo). RESUMEN DEL UTILITARISMO: Lo bueno es lo útil, y lo que aumenta el placer y disminuye el dolor. “La naturaleza ha colocado a la humanidad bajo el gobierno de dos amos soberanos: el dolor y el placer. Ellos solos han de señalar lo que debemos hacer”. Habla de un cálculo felicítico, intenta dar un criterio para ayudar a los demás en la búsqueda de lo útil, y hace una clasificación de placeres y dolores. Los placeres son medibles, aunque hay que considerar siete criterios: - Intensidad – Duración – Certeza – Proximidad - Fecundidad (situación agradable que genere más placer) - Pureza (ausencia de dolor) – Extensión

"Como movimiento dedicado a la reforma -escribió Bertrand Russell-, el utilitarismo ha logrado ciertamente, más que todas las filosofías idealistas juntas, y lo ha hecho sin grandes alharacas".

CONTRARY TO THE KANTIANS, THE UTILITARIANS SAY: “Nature has placed

mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, PAIN AND PLEASSURE, it is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. The standard of right and wrong is fastened to their throne. Utility is that property of in any object whereby it tends to produce benefit, advantage, pleasure, good or happiness…or to prevent their opposite” -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

“Los amigos que tienes y cuya amistad ya has puesto a prueba / engánchalos a tu alma con ganchos de acero.”

“No temáis a la grandeza; algunos nacen grandes, algunos logran grandeza, a algunos la grandeza les es impuesta y a otros la grandeza les queda grande.”

“El sabio no se sienta para lamentarse, sino que se pone alegremente a su tarea de reparar el daño hecho.”

“¡Oh amor poderoso¡ Que a veces hace de una bestia un hombre, y otras, de un hombre una bestia.”

“En la amistad y en el amor se es más feliz con la ignorancia que con el saber.”

“Es mejor ser rey de tu silencio que esclavo de tus palabras.”

“De lo que tengo miedo es de tu miedo.”

“El destino es el que baraja las cartas, pero nosotros somos los que jugamos.”

“No existe nada bueno ni malo; es el pensamiento humano el que lo hace aparecer así.”

Contrario a la era de Iluminación, la cual reclama que el humano es responsable por su propio destino, están los antiguos ESTOICOS que dicen: “debemos aceptar o rechazar nuestro destino; que todo esta escrito desde el comienzo” . Tal visión estoica es adoptada y expresada por Shakespeare cuando dice: “Todo el mundo es una tarima y todos los hombres y mujeres, meramente actores, tienen sus salidas y sus entradas, y un hombre en su tiempo actúa muchas partes”

“Excelente cosa es tener la fuerza de un gigante, pero usar de ella como un gigante es propio de un tirano.”

“Los cobardes mueren muchas veces antes de su verdadera muerte; los valientes prueban la muerte sólo una vez.”

“Anunciad con cien lenguas el mensaje agradable; pero dejad que las malas noticias se revelen por sí solas.”“Presta el oído a todos, y a pocos la voz. Oye las censuras de los demás; pero reserva tu propia opinión.”

‘Cuidado con la hoguera que enciendes contra tu enemigo; no sea que te chamusques a ti mismo.”

“Es más fácil obtener lo que se desea con una sonrisa que con la punta de la espada.”

“Si todo el año fuese fiesta, divertirse sería más aburrido que trabajar.” – G.Antuan dice: Este pensamiento revela un Shakespear fiel al epicureismo, pues sabe que el placer tiene límites.

“Sea como fuere lo que pienses, creo que es mejor decirlo con buenas palabras.”

“Procurando lo mejor estropeamos a menudo lo que está bien.”

“No ensucies la fuente donde has apagado tu sed.”*la version moderna dice: “no se caga donde se come”

“La juventud, aun cuando nadie la combata, halla en sí misma su propio enemigo.”

“El aspecto exterior pregona muchas veces la condición interior del hombre.”

“Fuertes razones, hacen fuertes acciones.”

“Las maldiciones no van nunca más allá de los labios que las profieren.”

“El desdichado no tiene otra medicina que la esperanza.”

“Las medidas templadas, que equivalen a remedios prudentes, son hartamente nocivas cuando el mal es violento.”

...a continuación otras frases…tal como el estilo que adopta Voltaire…

“Los viejos desconfían de la juventud porque han sido jóvenes.”

“No basta levantar al débil, hay que sostenerlo después.”

“Nosotros debemos nuestra vida a dios, por eso si se la pagamos hoy, no se la deberemos mañana.”

“A mayor talento, en la mujer, mayor indocilidad.”

Shakespeare – en mi opinión, su homologo posterior es Voltaire

“En mar se convierte cada gota cuando llega al mar, y así el alma se convierte en Dios cuando hasta Dios sube” Silesius (1624-1677) – místico cristiano

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“De la misma manera que en determinadas religiones se dice que una persona que no cree en Dios personal fuera de si mismo es un ateo, nosotros decimos que una persona que no cree en si mismo, es un ateo. Nosotros llamamos ateismo a no creer en la gloria del alma de uno mismo.” Swami Vivekananda – hindu

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ANONIMOS

“No le digas a Dios cuan grande es tu problema, dile a tu problema cuan grande es Dios.”

“Palo que nace doblao, jamás su tronco endereza”

“El sexo es una cura instantante para la depresión” Un científico anónimo del cual no he buscado referencia

“Cuando yo fui, Dios no fue. Cuando Dios es, yo ya no soy” Místico Hindú – citado en la obra “El mundo de Sofía”

“La vida, al menos a mí, me ha enseñado que el timón, por mucho que yo quiera y me empeñe, no lo llevo yo. Pienso que la felicidad no pasa por la eliminación del dolor, porque eso escapa a la capacidad humana, sino que creo que pasa por la dulce aceptación del él, como algo que no es fruto de la casualidad y el azar sino que es parte de una historia que está en manos de Alguien que, aunque a veces cueste creerlo quiere lo mejor para nosotros y ese Alguien sabe

perfectamente lo que hace.” http://elculodelmundoz.blogspot.com/2007/01/el-misterio-del-dolor.html

One day a famous sage came with his healing promise to a village, and a crowd gathered around him, for such a man was a rare sight. A woman brought her sick child to him, and he said a prayer over her.

"Do you really think your prayer will help her, when medicine has failed?" yelled a man from the crowd.

"You know nothing of such things! You are a stupid fool!" said the sage to the man.

The man became very angry with these words and his face grew hot and red. He was about to say something, or perhaps strike out, when the sage walked over to him and said: "If one word has such power as to make you so angry and hot, may not another have the power to heal?"

And thus, the sage healed two people that day.

“We need time to dream, time to remember and time to reach the infinite. Time to be.”

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

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Poetically wise conjectures…----------------------------------------------------We all know that the mathematical odds of that happening are like “one in never”! Rob Osborn----------------------------------------------------“Yo no pedí nacer así, son cosas mías”

“Brindo en seco por las cicatrices que yacen alegres y parlanchinas en mi piel o debajo de ella.”

André Marcel – poeta puertoriqueño

“A MI TODO ME HACE BIEN.”

Al Cofre

“What is life?Out of all the posible dimensions, life is non other than the experience of conciousness. And…consciousness is that which makes out of chaos meaningful correlations, the construction and identification of harmonious patterns, logic and artistic expression, to increase the knowledge of self in connection to everything else.

We are the beings belonging to a larger conclomerate of conscious beings among the stars.

We love because love exists as a primordial universal law. Love is nothing but connection, it is to find your own essense in everything else. Love and spirituality are one and the same. A spiritual life is a life which transcends the self and connects all into one.”

Gabo Suarez