"All things in the world of Nature are not controlled by Fate for the soul has a principle of its own."

-- Iamblichus

#Fate Quotes #Soul Quotes #Principles Quotes

“The quest for our origin is the sweet fruit's juice which maintains satisfaction in the minds of the philosophers.”

Source : "The Golden Ratio" by Mario Livio, (p. 124), 2002.
“Lately I've been thinking about who I want to love, and how I want to love, and why I want to love the way I want to love, and what I need to learn to love that way, and how I need to become to become the kind of love I want to be. And when I break it all down, when I whittle it into a single breath, it essentially comes out like this: before I die, I want to be somebody's favorite hiding place, the place they can put everything they need to survive, every secret, every solitude, every nervous prayer, and be absolutely certain I will keep it safe. I will keep it safe.”
“When an idea, a proposition, a cause is presented to me in terms that leave me no alternative but to be for it, because it's all pros and no cons, then I know I'm being conned.”
“Our language is the reflection of ourselves. A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers.”
“Learning is a consequence of thinking.”

Source : David Perkins (2008). “Smart Schools: From Training Memories to Educating Minds”, p.185, Simon and Schuster
“Somebody approached me about writing a biography on me, I told them they were too late.”
“[P]erfect freedom consists in obeying the dictates of right reason, and submitting to natural law. When a man goes beyond or contrary to the law of nature and reason, he . . . introduces confusion and disorder into society . . . [thus] where licentiousness begins, liberty ends.”
“I always try to suit my clothes to my company. It is the only way to be inconspicuous.”

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