"So far as I am acquainted with the principles and doctrines of Freemasonry, I conceive it to be founded in benevolence and to be exercised only for the good of mankind."

-- George Washington

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“Most people are fools, most authority is malignant, God does not exist, and everything is wrong.”

Source : "The Curse Of Xanadu" by Gary Wolf, www.wired.com. June 01, 1995.
“Heâ€™s sort of a homeless horse,â€ I said. â€œIâ€™m leaving for the airport in two seconds, and I wonâ€™t be back for a couple days. You can put the horse in the garage, but I donâ€™t want that horse in my apartment.â€ â€œWho would put a horse in an apartment? Thatâ€™s dumb.â€ â€œWhereâ€™s the horse staying now?â€ â€œMy apartment.â€ â€œI can always count on you to brighten my day,â€ Ranger said. And he disconnected.”
“Any rational human being is horrified and existentially baffled by the reality of the Holocaust meted out by the Nazis, by the majority of Germans throughout the 1930s and World War II; and by the countless countries, communities and individuals who collaborated with the vast constellation of Hitler's monsters in the gruesome murder of well over 60% of European Jewry. Codex OrfÃ©o reminds us that the root of that insanity is continuing in the form of contemporary Holocausts against other species, with equally systematic, atrocious and inexplicable madness.”
“That's what's wrong with the people in this world; they believe they can do well by just getting by when they need to aim for the highest.”
“In heaven there is laid up a pattern which he who chooses may behold, and beholding, set his own house in order. The time has now arrived at which they must raise the eye of the soul to the Universal Light which lightens all things. With the eye ever directed toward things fixed and immutable which neither injure nor are injured - these they cannot help imitating. But I quite admit the difficulty of believing that in every man there is an eye of the soul which by the right direction is re-illumined, and is more precious far than ten thousand bodily eyes.”
“Enthusiasm is the electricity of life”
“The productions of a great genius, with many lapses and inadvertences, are infinitely preferable to the works of an inferior kind of author which are scrupulously exact, and conformable to all the rules of correct writing.”

Source : Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator”, p.454
“He who is too well off is always longing for something new.”

Source : Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm (2014). “Grimm's Fairy Tales: Complete and illustrated - 211 Tales”, p.106, Ageless Reads

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