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“Fundamentalism, in all religious traditions, is impervious to suppression. The more one tries to squelch it, the stronger it becomes. Counter it with cruelty, and it gains adherents… Try to control it, and it will turn against you. Try to appease it, and it will take control.” p.247

Good old Bertrand Russell never lets me down:
“Aristotle’s metaphysics, roughly speaking, may be described as Plato diluted by common sense. He is difficult because Plato and common sense do not mix easily.”

“It has always been correct to praise Plato, but not to understand him. This is the common fate of great men.”

“Ask a man enough questions, and his belief in his understanding fades before him as does a dream upon waking—unless it is a true understanding.”

“Plato and Plotinus were wrong. There is no first principle. There is no time, no space, no self, no matter. The world was not thought into being from nothing. It always was and always will be, constantly imagined by All That Is and All That Is is precisely that: All.”