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Lean-to

2020-01-30 · 867 views · license: CC BY-NC 2.0

Lean-to — pen and ink drawing by Daniel Ari Friedman. "I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world." – H.G. Wells, "The Island of Dr. Moreau" "Joyously quiver
Lean-to — pen and ink drawing

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"I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world." – H.G. Wells, "The Island of Dr. Moreau"

"Joyously quivers the air of the hour before dawn, the hour when Buddha cognized the greatness of Cosmos, and when the Lord Christ prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane." – Agni Yoga, "Leaves of Morya’s Garden II", 241 (1925)

"In Pascal's view, casuistry was the denial of true morality. It held out no vision of the ideals to which humans should aspire. It commanded no sacrifice, insisted on no heroic dedication. Not only did it trivialize the lofty precepts of the Gospel, it did not even hint at the "natural life of virtue" that had been espoused by Aristotle and Cicero. It was a mere farrago…

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