To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.

Walk into any of a hundred thousand classrooms today and hear the teachers divide and subdivide and interrelate and establish “principles” and study “methods” and what you will hear is the ghost of Aristotle speaking down through the centuries—the desiccating lifeless voice of dualistic reason.

All these mystics, throughout history, all over the world, they all found their way to enlightenment by physical suffering.

A pretty building I'm making, without either bricks or timber. I'm up i' the garret a'ready, and haven't so much as dug the foundation.

Written By George Eliot

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