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Truth is a Pathless Land

2017-09-12 · 1,084 views · license: CC BY-NC 2.0

Truth is a Pathless Land — pen and ink drawing by Daniel Ari Friedman. "Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is
Truth is a Pathless Land — pen and ink drawing

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"Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also." – Marcus Aurelius, 'Meditations'

"Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about." – G. K. Chesterton, in “The Ethics of Elfland”, 'Orthodoxy' (1908)

"Don't go by reports, by legends, by traditions, by scripture, by logical conjecture, by inference, by analogies, by agreement through pondering views, by…

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