There is no original truth, only original error.

Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else.

[http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9049584/al-Maarri Profile in Encyclopædia Britannica]

[http://www.humanistictexts.org/al_ma'arri.htm Al-Maʿarri's poems (in English)]

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

[http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9011433/Avicenna Avicenna] an article by Seyyed Hossein Nasr on Encyclopedia Britannica Online

Those also who are remarkable for having led holy lives are released from this earthly prison, and go to their pure home which is above, and dwell in the purer earth; and those who have duly purified themselves with philosophy live henceforth altogether without the body, in mansions fairer far than these...

If we consider him [Euclid] as meaning to be what his commentators have taken him to be, a model of the most unscrupulous formal rigour, we can deny that he has altogether succeeded, though we admit that he made the nearest approach.

Rather than worship Confucius and Kuan Kung, one should worship Darwin and Ibsen.

Socrates’ way of life is the consequence of his recognition that we can know what it is that we do not know about the most important things and that we are by nature obliged to seek that knowledge.

Philosophy, if it cannot answer so many questions as we could wish, has at least the power of asking questions which increase the interest of the world, and show the strangeness and wonder lying just below the surface even in the commonest things of daily life.

The Art of War (Sun Tzu)

...do not courageous men endure death because they are afraid of yet greater evils? ...Then all but philosophers are courageous only from fear, and because they are afraid; and yet that a man should be courageous from fear, and because he is a coward, is surely a strange thing.

He says that the sun is stone, and the moon earth.

[http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/ethics/de-beauvoir/index.htm Simone de Beauvoir Archive at Marxists.org]

What is the meaning of this?