Ancient Seats of Learning

 

Interview with J Robert Oppenheimer RARE

A Conversation with Van Wyck Brooks

Pantheon

 

Radical thinkers: Ludwig Feuerbach on religion

Avempace (Ibn Bajja)

Out of this Furnace, this Metal.

 He had felt that no human being need go without his portion of comfort and beauty and quietness; the world held enough for all and if some had less than others it was because men had ordered it so and it lay in men's hands to order differently. It had seemed to him that men needed only to have this explained to them and they'd rise and do what was necessary; and when they didn't he felt angry and bewildered. Out of sloth or fear or stupidity they did nothing, they appeared content with little, whom justice did not seem to burn nor denial embitter. (p. 199).

Zhuangzi - The Sage of Uncertainty

Stonehenge

 

"It was pleasant to see that just this simplest of all structures--two upright stones and a lintel laid across--had long outstood all later churches and all history, and were like what is more permanent on the face of the planet..." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Complete Writings, 506.