Tuesday, April 05, 2005

Imaginary Discussion Thread on: Gnosis

I will work out the divinity that is busy within my mind
And tend the means that are mine.
- Pindar

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
- Emerson

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.
- Thomas Carlyle

Whoever starts out toward the unknown must consent to venture alone.
- Andre Gide

The high strength of men
knows no content with limitation.
- Aeschylus

This is courage in a man:
To bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.

- Euripides

God, whose law it is that he who learns must suffer.
And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget,
falls drop by drop upon the heart,
and in our own despite, against our will,
comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
- Aeschylus