“[…] o povo português […] teve um projecto, ou melhor, guarda nos seus arcanos, no seu inconsciente arcaico, na cifra da sua língua e cultura, na sua memória inconsciente, no seu imaginário, no seu pensamento implícito e por vezes explícito, um projecto, a que chamamos um projecto áureo de realização da humanidade”

- António Quadros, Portugal, Razão e Mistério, I, Lisboa, Guimarães Editores, 1986, p.17.

" A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard. "

- Eliphas Levi

"Our Earth is degenerate in these later days.
Bribery and corruption are common.
Children no longer obey their parents.
The end of the world is apparently approaching."

~ Carved in a stone slab around 2800 BC.

“Pois tudo, tudo há-de passar, enfim.
O homem, o próprio mundo passará,
Mas a Saudade é irmã da Eternidade”

- Teixeira de Pascoaes, “Marânus”, 1911.

Conserva zelosamente o teu direito a reflectir,
porque até o acto de pensar erradamente
é melhor do que não pensar em absoluto.

Hipátia de Alexandria (355-415)

"Don't let your heart get big because of your knowledge.
Take counsel with the ignorant as well as with the scholar.
(For) the limits of art are not brought,
(and) no artisan is equipped with perfection. "

- vizier Ptahhotep. Ancient Egypt, circa 2400 BCE

" Swinging open the doors of this antechamber, the illumined pass into the greater and more perfect existence. The ignorant dwell in a world bounded by time and space. "

- Manly Palmer Hall

It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies. 
Thomas Huxley

Once you realise that the road is the goal and that you are always on the road, not to reach a goal, but to enjoy its beauty and its wisdom, life ceases to be a task and becomes natural and simple, in itself an ecstasy.

~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj