"No one will deny that the soul of Pythagoras was sent to mankind from Apollo's domain, having either been one of his attendants, or more intimate associates, which may be inferred both from his birth, and his versatile wisdom."

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Source : "Life of Pythagoras". Book by Iamblichus, Ch. 2: Youth, Education, Travels, translated by Thomas Taylor,

Iamblichus

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“There is nothing far-fetched about disappointment as a subject for comedy. It's something we are all too familiar with.”
“Individual freedom and individual equality cannot co-exist. I dare say no one since Thomas Jefferson has really believed it.”

Source : Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”
“Nothing enrages me more than when people criticize my criticism of school by telling me that schools are not just places to learn maths and spelling, they are places where children learn a vaguely defined thing called socialization...I think schools generally do an effective and terribly damaging job of teaching children to be infantile, dependent, intellectually dishonest, passive and disrespectful to their own developmental capacities.”
“What if tomorrow someone digs up definitive proof that Jesus had a real, earthly, biological father named Larry, and archeologists find Larry's tomb and do DNA samples and prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that the virgin birth was just a bit of mythologizing the Gospel writers threw in to appeal to the followers of the Mithra and Dionysian religious cults that were hugely popular at the time of Jesus, whose gods had virgin births? Could you still be a Christian? Is the way of Jesus still the best possible way to live?”
“And as long as man has walked on this Earth, there has been God. And man's purpose is for the glorification of God.”
“When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways--either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength.”
“The dogs did bark, the children screamed, Up flew the windows all; And every soul bawled out, Well done! As loud as he could bawl.”
“The past doesn't haunt us, we haunt the past.”

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