24048045 Frases y Pensamientos Del Gran Intelecto Thoughts of the Great Intelect Bilingual Content

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COLECCIN DE PENSAMIENTOS Y FRASES DEL GRAN INTELECTOcon algunas anotaciones por G.Antuan*idioma: espaol e ingls

COLLECTION OF THOUGHTS AND SAYINGS FROM THOSE OF GREATINTELLECT with some notes by G.Antuan*language: spanish and english

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[There is] no ethnic cleansing without poetry. You need to arouse people to dosomething as terrible as ethnic cleansing. You need some kind of ethnic nationalmyth which gives to people the strength, their own pervert strength to kill otherpeople. For this you need something spiritualpoetry.

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Evolution is a mayor thread in the larger tapestry that I like to callreality!

Lewis Black - comedian

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The fact that there are imbalances is not itself a concern, the concern is the direction ofthe imbalances

Prof. Joseph Stiglitz Columbia University-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

If you permit your thoughts to dwell on evil you yourself will become ugly. Look only

for the good in everything so you absorb the quality of beauty.

You must not let your life run in the ordinary way; do something that nobody else has

done, something that will dazzle the world. Show that God's creative principle works inyou.

There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is

unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live foryou.

The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

Persistence guarantees that results are inevitable.


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Every morning I offer my body, my mind and any ability that I posses, to be used by

Thee, O infinite creator, in whatever way Thou dost choose to express Thyself throughme. I know that all work is Thy work, and that no task is too difficult or too menial when

offered to Thee in loving service.

Every tomorrow is determined by every today.

The entire universe is God's cosmic motion picture, and that individuals are merely

actors in the divine play who change roles through reincarnation; mankind's deepsuffering is rooted in identifying too closely with one's current role, rather than with the

movie's director, or God.

Paramahansa Yogananda

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Im not the sort of person who likes a lot of competition. I particularly dont like the

feeling that if I wasnt around doing certain work, it wouldnt make any difference. If itsgoing to be done anyway, whats the point, right?

Do you ever grow weary of it? No. No. Because this isnt a monolithic question

where theres nothing interesting until you get to the end. In fact, the question breaks

down into maybe a dozen smaller questions. Each has interesting parts.

Jack W. Szostak - biochemical researcher; 2009Nobel Prizein medicine

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------[]experimental evidence, which consists of a large number of long and beautifullyinterwoven series of breeding experiments of truly unprecedented ingenuity on theone hand and of direct observations[]

Erwin Schrodinger (1887 1961) - Austrianphysicist andtheoretical biologist who was

one of the fathers ofquantum mechanics, and is famed for a number of important

contributions to physics, especially the Schrdinger equation (the wave equation;describes how the quantum state or wave function of aphysical system changes in time),

for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1933. In 1935, after extensivecorrespondence with personal friend Albert Einstein, he proposed the Schrdinger's catthought experiment. In 1944, he wrote What is Life?, which contains a discussion of

negentropy and the concept of a complex molecule with the genetic code for living

organisms. According to James D. Watson's memoir, DNA, the Secret of Life,

Schrdinger's book gave Watson the inspiration to research the gene, which led to thediscovery of the DNAdouble helix structure. He had a life-long interest in the Vedanta

philosophy ofHinduism, which influenced his speculations at the close ofWhat is Life?
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about the possibility that individual consciousness is only a manifestation of a unitary

consciousness pervading theuniverse.-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

La mayora de los individuos no desean ni estn dispuestos a aceptar ayudaantes de tocar el fondo. (El Milagro ms grande del mundo)

Og Mandino

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Every time someone is inspired to dream big, the world becomes a richer, fuller place.

Time is the most valuable asset of the human experience.

I think the highest goal is transcending one's own misconceptions and coming a little

closer to the truth about how things actually are. It might be that there is no end game in

this goal; if that is the case then the goal really is the process itself.

Thad Roberts - was a 25-year-old intern at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston,

Texas when he stole 17 pounds of moon rocks from the space agency that had beenbrought back to Earth by Apollo astronauts. He got caught selling the rocks on the

Internet. Not willing to let his NASA experience or undergraduate degree in astrophysics

go to waste, he spent his time behind bars contemplating the greatest mysteries of theuniverse, and conceived a theory to explain them. According to Roberts and his

followers, quantum space theory (QST) could unify Einstein's general relativity with

quantum mechanics at long last.

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Information must lead to knowledge and knowledge to products useful to society.

Super computing facility at IIT delhi

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The genes that survived down the generations add up in effect to a description of what it

took to survive back then; and thats tantamount to saying that the DNA in each livingcreature is a coded description of the environment in which its ancestors survived, its a

survival manual handed down by generations. From a conference in 1998 called Der

Digitale Planet (The Digital Planet)

Richard Dawkins - is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author. He is anemeritus fellow ofNew College, Oxford, and was the University of Oxford'sProfessor

for Public Understanding of Science from 1995 until 2008. His 1976 bookThe Selfish

Gene, popularised the gene-centered view of evolution and introduced the term meme. In

1982 he introduced an influential concept into evolutionary biology, presented in his

bookThe Extended Phenotype, that thephenotypiceffects of a gene are not necessarily
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limited to an organism's body,but can stretch far into the environment, including the

bodies of other organisms. Dawkins is an atheist and humanist, a Vice President of theBritish Humanist Association and supporter of the Brights movement. He is well known

for his criticism ofcreationism andintelligent design.

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Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.

For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by betterinformation or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects,which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.

He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than hewhom you yourself have obliged.

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand abroader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them byfalse estimates they have made of the value of things.

I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough inthegrave.

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year findyou a better man.

Beauty and folly are old companions.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.
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Benjamin Franklin - (January 17, 1706 [O.S. January 6, 1705[1]] April 17, 1790) was one ofthe Founding Fathers of the United States. A notedpolymath, Franklin was a leadingauthor, printer,political theorist,politician,postmaster, scientist, musician, inventor,

satirist, civic activist, statesman, anddiplomat. As a scientist, he was a major figure in the

American Enlightenment and the history of physicsfor his discoveries and theories

regarding electricity. He invented the lightning rod,bifocals, the Franklin stove, acarriage odometer, and the glass 'armonica'.

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War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.

The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to

be what he is.

The pleasures which we most rarely experience give us thegreatest delight.

"I cannot tell you [] how I hurry on, with all sails set []. How I dislike everything

that keeps me back, or retards me."

The gospel, the word of God, faith, Christ, and Holy Spirit- these words are always on

their lips; look at their lives and they speak quite another language.

Desiderius Erasmus - (1466 1536), known as Erasmus of Rotterdam, was a DutchRenaissance humanist,Catholic priest, and a theologian.

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Once the brain has a goal in mind, it tunes the perceptual system to search theenvironment for relevant clues.

Steven Sloman - cognitive scientist at Brown University

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flash of a human spirit. Its a vehicle through which the soul of each particular culturecomes into the material world. Every language is an old grown forest of the mind, awatershed of thought, an ecosystem with social and spiritual possibilities. Ted Talks /

Light at the Edge of the World

Wade Davis Anthropologist

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This is a very basic examplesimpleof complex systems: collective behavior which

we can not infer by looking at individual pieces.

Julio Ottino Comment on Thomas C. Schellings book Micromotives andMacrobehavior

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La educacin es, tal vez, la forma ms alta de buscar a dios.

No hay arte ateo. Aunque no ames al creador, lo afirmars

creando a su semejanza.

Tengo un da. Si lo s aprovechar, tengo un tesoro.

En vano se echa la red ante los ojos de los que tienen alas.

El futuro de los nios es siempre hoy. Maana ser tarde.

Existe la inmensa alegria de vivir y de ser justos, pero ante

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-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense,reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."

Galileo Galilei

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the conventional formulation of physics are, in principle,

inapplicable to the living organism being open system

having steady state. We may well suspect that many

characteristics of living systems which are paradoxical inview of the laws of physics are a consequence of this fact.

Karl Ludwig Bertalanffy (1901- 1972): biologist and one of

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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.Marie Curie

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"Father, give us courage to change what must be altered, serenity to accept what cannotbe helped, and the insight to know the one from the other." Serenity prayer

Note: The most popular version of the Serenity prayer, whose authorship is unknown,

reads: "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, Courage to

change the things I can change, and wisdom to know the difference." Seor, dame laserenidad para aceptar las cosas que no puedo cambiar, el valor para cambiar aquellas

que pudo y la sabidura para reconocer la diferencia.

"Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible; but man's inclination to injustice

makes democracy necessary."

groups tend to be more immoral than individuals."

Karl Paul Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971) : American theologian and commentator onpublic affairs; one of the most influential religious leaders of the 1940s and 1950s in

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Science is not a thing, its a verb, its a way of thinking about things, its a way for

looking for natural explanations for all phenomena. [..] In all cases we have to ask whats

the more likely explanation. Ted Talks: Why people believe strange things.

Michael Shermer

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time its technology, its just being a technician. Ted Talks: 18 minutes with an agile mind

Im a scientist, once I do something I want to do something else. Ted Talks: 18 minutes

with an agile mind

It is the voice of life which calls us to come and learn. Ted Talks: 18 minutes with an

agile mind

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We might argue that in the course of evolution those organisms were mostsuccessful that were responsive to the widest range of stimulus energies in

their environment. In order to survive in a constantly fluctuating world, it

was better to have a little information about a lot of things than to have a lotof information about a small segment of the environment. If a compromise
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was necessary, the one we seem to have made is clearly the more adaptive.The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two

In order to understand what another person is saying, you must assume it istrue and try to imagine what it could be true of.Miller's Law

George A. Miller (born February 3, 1920 in Charleston, West Virginia) author of one ofthe most highly cited papers in psychology, "The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus

Two"[1] published in 1956 inPsychological Review.[2][3][4]This paper suggests that seven

(plus or minus two) is the magic number that characterizes people's memory performanceon random lists of letters, words, numbers, or almost any kind of meaningful familiar

item. Founded the Center for Cognitive Studies at Harvard with Jerome Bruner, a

cognitive developmentalist. He is presently professor ofpsychology at PrincetonUniversity'sDepartment of Psychology. He formerly served as Professor of Psychology

at Rockefeller University,Massachusetts Institute of Technologyand at Harvard

University, where he was Chairman of the Department of Psychology. He was a

Fulbright Research Fellow at Oxford University. He is also a former President of theAmerican Psychological Association, and in 1991, received theNational Medal of

Science.

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When a law is right, it can be used to find another one. The Messenger Lectures

Dr. Richard Feynman

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Cuando todo el mundo est loco, estar cuerdo es una locura.

Paul Anthony Samuelson - economista estadounidense, nacido en Gary, Indiana, deascendencia juda, el 15 de mayo de 1915. Obtuvo el Premio Nobel de Economa en 1970

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And I shall attempt the impossible, or at least the improbable!Arthur Benjamin From Ted Talk: Mathemagic

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The mathematical beauty is the summit of the beauty of reason.

I have never belonged to any group. I have my own war to fight.

Reflection is my religion

He is a mortal in flesh but a godhood in spirit.
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Michelangelos architecture, sculpture, painting and urban planning are perfectlyintegrated. Leonardo da Vinci is a great fantasist obsessed with accuratesciences.

Craftsmanship is a quality that any artist must have.

The system of craftsmen and that of intellectuals are always closely connected.Craftsmanship is a quality that any artist must have. This apparently neglectedaesthetic form is actually very much alive in our times. It is hardly noticeablebecause its practitioners consist of designers and architects but hardly painters.

When we come to spirituality through the expression of artistic language, manydetails [], for instance, the instruments that were used or the anecdotes wouldinterfere our appreciation of the picture. So I thought I had to explore thespirituality of the images.

Science and globalization of economy have brought various nations of the worldmore similar cities, similar buildings, similar faces and similar symbol systems. Ihave been trying every means to break away from this boring, uninteresting inspeed and efficiency and this world of gradually equal quality.

It is because there is an other in front of you that helps you find your ownplace. I mean the comparison between nations. Man is actually born with aninstinct to compare. Some spirits are derived from comparisons. The sense ofshame can make a man grow stronger in a short time. Behind the national issuesthere is a spiritual war. The war may be invisible to us but exists everywhere.

G.Antuan comment: Anyone, like Mr.Fei, who develops his reflections with thepowerful freedom to view events at different speeds, slowing or speeding upevents, enabling a sort of time travel or deep time comprehension andcorrelation, is then able to extract such wisdom and underlying truths abouthuman issues and conditions. I very much agree and share Mr. Feis thoughts.

A more common example of a person that exhibited such profound thoughts andcapability was Charles Darwin.

When Wang was asked what is the most important thing for an artist heresponded: The spiritual pains, confusions, and a lifelong journey for salvation. Ithink this is a most real state. This has nothing to do with your material wealth.You have to speak out the truth, and you must have something to say.

When Wang was asked if he could choose his career over again what would hechoose, he responded: Maybe I would choose a writing job. But fast-paced,exhausted modern people may lack the proper mood to savor the words slowly.So I would still choose painting, as pictures are more direct.


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Wang Fei (Oct. 24, 1978 Born in Shanghai, P.R. China) Contemporary Chinese

artist/painter. He is an artist that attempts to reconstruct the national spiritual

totems through symbolism. All his image resources and esoteric imagination arerelated to the history seven hundred years ago when China suffered from no

invasion from other civilizations. Behind his fascination and love of history,

Wang Fei has a grand ambition and purpose. "What I really want to do is draw theface of the Chinese spiritual totems back to the moment 700 years ago when the

nation's dignity was not lost yet and let them grow in my painting world." Based

on his imagination of the people of those times, Wang Fei began his spiritual questof the internal reason of the cultural changes in China. He declared, "the spiritual

face of the Chinese people shall be rebuilt in my painting."

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To see the world in a grain of sand, and heaven in a wild

flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, andeternity in an hour.

No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.

Eternity is in love with the productions of time.

Imagination is the real and eternalworld of which this vegetableuniverse is but a faint shadow.Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Souldiscerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.

What is grand is necessarily obscure to weakmen. That which can be made explicit to the

idiot is not worth my care.

Those who restrain desire, do so because theirsis weak enough to be restrained.

William Blake (28 November 175712 August 1827) - Englishpoet and painter (pre-

Romantic and Romantic movement ). Considered mad by contemporaries for his
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idiosyncratic views, Blake is held in high regard by later critics for his expressiveness

and creativity, and for the philosophical and mystical undercurrents within his work.

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There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell youthat he found ready made his discovery or poem or picture that it came to him from

outside, and that he did not consciously create it from within.

William Kingdon Clifford, from a lecture to the Royal Institution titled "Some of theconditions of mental development"

G.Antuan says: As a musician, I attest to William Kingdons thoughts, since through the

process of composing melodies I always felt these were all some sort of pre-made

complex musical scales with infinite ways of interpretation according to differing timeintervals. So I like to say, that as a composer, I never invented a single melody, I merely

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I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow.

Woodrow Wilson-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

"Once you've lived as long as me, then you can tell me not to smoke."

Jeanne Calment: The oldest lady that ever lived. Born on February 21, 1875 in Arles,France. Smoked until she was 117.-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

"The world is neither a prison nor a palace of ease, but rather for instruction and

discipline.

"Life is the creation by God and if you would know God, be not a solver of riddles.

Look about you and you shall see Him playing with your children. Look into the

air and you shall see him walking in the clouds, out-stretching his arms in the

lightning and descending in rain. You shall see him smiling in flowers, then rising

and waving his hands in trees.

"Life is short but the influences of what we do or say are immortal. There

needs to be much more of the spirit of fellowship among us and more

forgiveness.
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Walter Breuning Oldest man alive, 113 years old on 2010.

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There is no truer guide than our scientific theories, and if they turn our to be wrong, theyhave raised us up and we have lived at their level and are ready for widerunderstanding.

The universe is endlessly speaking. People ask the universe the questions they arecapable of conceiving and hear the answers they are capable of hearing.

People disagree on just about everything that has to do with spirituality, but the onething they do tend to agree on is that whatever the spiritual may be, its not physical.Excerpt from his book From the center of the universe.

Entropy is called an emergent property because it only emerges when a systembecomes sufficiently complex. G.Antuan comment: Yes, it is a well accepted physical

phenomenon, the more complex a system and the more you push or speed it up, thegreater the possibility of chaotic behavior; this is the one law that economists wouldntdare to accept.

G.Antuan comment: Though this idea of spiritual separateness from matter mightcome as naturally engaging, inspiring and romantic, I believe it to be precisely ourmost detrimental and flawed perception of reality. I rather tend to see a granderuniverse considering that spirit without matter is as irrelevant and nonexistent asmatter without spirit; one is a manifestation of the other. Thus, the wholeuniverse is just the space where spiritual potentiality can manifest itself; withoutit, spirituality makes no sense.

Joel Primack - Professor of physics at the University of California

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Our brains have evolved to help us survive within the orders of magnitude of size andspeed which our bodies operate at. We never evolved to navigate in the world of atoms.

[] Its therefore useful for our brains to construct notions like solidity and

impenetrability because such notions help us to navigate our bodies through the middlesize world in which we have to navigate. From Ted Talks: Our queer universe

Richard Dawkins Evolutionary biologist-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

The secret to happiness is low expectation.

With perfection the expectation the best that you can hope for is that stuff is as good as

you expect it to be; you will never be pleasantly surprised because your expectations have

gone through the roof.

When everything was worse it was actually possible for people to have experiences that

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Adding options to peoples lives cant help but increase the expectations people have

about how good those options will be and what thats going to produce is less satisfactionwith results even when theyre good results.

The more options there are the easier it is to regret anything at all that is disappointing

about the option you chose.

Paralysis is a consequence of having too many choices

One consequence of buying a bad fitting pair of jeans when there is only one kind to buy

is that when you are dissatisfied and you ask why, who is responsible, the answer is clear,

the world is responsible, what could you do. When there are hundreds of different stylesof jeans available and you buy one that is disappointing and you ask why, who is

responsible, it is equally clear that the answer to the question isyou. You couldve

done better with a hundred different kinds of jeans on display there is no excuse for

failure.

When you manipulate incentives to get people to do the right thing, it creates people

who are addicted to incentives, that is to say, it creates people who only do things forincentives. [] We know, that if you reward kids for drawing pictures, they stop caring

about the drawing and care only about the reward, if you reward kids for reading books,

they stop caring about whats in the books and only care about how long they go, if youreward teachers for kids test scores, they stop caring about educating and only care about

test preparation. If you were to reward doctors for doing more procedures, which is the

current system they would do more, if instead you reward doctors for doing fewerprocedures, they would do fewer, what we want off course is doctors who would do just

the right amount of procedures and do the right amount for the right reasons, namely to

serve the welfare of their patients.

Barry Schwartz Psychologist.

Quotes from Ted Talks: The Paradox of Choice: Why more is less and Using our

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All things are in all. -De immenso (1591)

Anything we take in the universe, because it has in itself that which is All in All,includes in its own way the entire soul of the world, which is entirely in any part ofit.

We find that everything that makes up difference and number is pure accident,pure show, pure constitution. Every production, of whatever kind, is an alteration, butthe substance remains always the same, because it is only one, one divine immortal

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It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses ormajority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not changebecause it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.

With luck on your side, you can do without brains.

The infinity of All ever bringing forth anew, and even as infinite space is around us,so is infinite potentiality, capacity, reception, malleability, matter.

The Divine Light is always in man, presenting itself to the senses and to thecomprehension, but man rejects it.

I understand Being in all and over all, as there is nothing without participation inBeing, and there is no being without Essence. Thus nothing can be free of the DivinePresence.

If all things are in common among friends, the most precious is Wisdom.

Nature is none other than God in things... Animals and plants are living effects ofNature; Whence all of God is in all things... Think thus, of the sun in the crocus, in the

narcissus, in the heliotrope, in the rooster, in the lion. - As quoted in Elements ofPantheism (2004) by Paul A. Harrison

It is manifest... that every soul and spirit hath a certain continuity with the spirit ofthe universe, so that it must be understood to exist and to be included not only therewhere it liveth and feeleth, but it is also by its essence and substance diffusedthroughout immensity... The power of each soul is itself somehow present afar in theuniverse...

The Universe is one, infinite, immobile. The absolute potential is one, the act is one, theform or soul is one, the material or body is one, the thing is one, the being in one, one isthe maximum and the best... It is not generated, because there is no other being it could

desire or hope for. since it comprises all being. It does not grow corrupt. because there is

nothing else into which it could change, given that it is itself all things. It cannot diminishor grow, since it is infinite.

Giordano Bruno - Philosopher, Martyr, Mystic 1548 1600 Caught, imprisoned and

burned alive by the Inquisition.

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"no evolutionary future awaits anyone except in associationwith everyone else."

"...everything is the sum of the past" and "...nothing is comprehensible except through its

history. 'Nature' is the equivalent of 'becoming', self-creation: this is the view to whichexperience irresistibly leads us. ... There is nothing, not even the human soul, the highest

spiritual manifestation we know of, that does not come within this universal law."

From our experimental point of view, reflection is, as the word indicates, the power

acquired by a consciousness to turn in upon itself, to take possession of itself as of an

object endowed with its own particular consistence and value: no longer merely to know

oneself; no longer merely to know, but to know that one knows. And we are happyto admit that the birth of intelligence corresponds to a turning in upon itself, not only of

the nervous system, but of the whole being .The Phenomenon of Man

"The time has come to realize that an interpretation of the universe--even a positivist one--remains unsatisfying unless it covers the interioras well as the exterior of things; mind as well as matter. The truephysics is that which will, one day, achieve the inclusion of man in hiswholeness in a coherent picture of the world." (The Phenomenon ofMan, 1955, p. 36)

"The being who is the object of his own reflection, in consequence ofthat very doubling back upon himself, becomes in a flash able to raisehimself into a new sphere. In reality, another world is born.Abstraction, logic, reasoned choice and inventions, mathematics, art,calculation of space and time, anxieties and dreams of love--all theseactivities ofinner life are nothing else than the effervescence of thenewly-formed centre as it explodes onto itself." (The Phenomenon ofMan, 1955, p. 165)

"The outcome of the world, the gates of the future, the entry into thesuper-human--these are not thrown open to a few of the privileged norto one chosen people to the exclusion of all others. They will open onlyto an advance ofall together, in a direction in which all togethercanjoin and find completion in a spiritual renovation of the earth..." (ThePhenomenon of Man, 1955, p. 245)

"We are faced with a harmonized collectivity of consciousnessequivalent to a sort of super-consciousness. The idea is that of theearth not only becoming covered in myriads of grains of thought, butbecoming enclosed in a single thinking envelope so as to form,functionally, no more than a single vast grain of thought on thesidereal scale, the plurality of individual reflections grouping
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themselves together and reinforcing one another in the act of a singleunanimous reflection." (The Phenomenon of Man, 1955, p. 252)"

"To be fully ourselves it is in the opposite direction, in the direction ofconvergence with all the rest, that we must advance--towards the

'other.' The peak of ourselves, the acme of our originality, is not ourindividuality but our person; and according to the evolutionarystructure of the world, we can only find our person by uniting together.There is no mind without synthesis. The same holds good from top tobottom. The true ego grows in inverse proportion to 'egoism.' Like theOmega which attracts it, the element only becomes personal when ituniversalises itself." (The Phenomenon of Man, 1955. p. 263)

"...the more we split and pulverisematter artificially, the moreinsistently it proclaims itsfundamental unity." (The Phenomenon of Man,1955, p. 41)

"...we see not only thought as participating in evolution as an anomalyor as an epiphenomenon (emergent property; mere consequence ofmatter complexity); but evolution as so reducible to and identifiablewith a progress towards thought that the movement of our soulsexpresses and measures the very stages of progress of evolution itself.

Man discovers that he is nothing else than evolution becomeconscious of itself." (The Phenomenon of Man, 1955, 221)

"Without the slightest doubt there is something through which materialand spiritual energy hold togehter and are complementary. In the lastanalysis, somehow or other, there must be a single energy operating inthe world. And the first idea that occurs to us is that the 'soul' must beas it were the focal point of transformation at which, from all the pointsof nature, the forces of bodies converge, to become interiorised andsublimated in beauty and truth." (The Phenomenon of Man, 1955, p.

63)

"To write the true natural history of the world, we should need to beable to follow it from within. It would thus appear no longer as aninterlocking succession of structural types replacing one another, butas an ascension of inner sap spreading out in a forest of consolidated

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constituted by conscious clothes in fleshand bone." (The Phenomenon of Man, 1955, p. 151)

"Love in all its subtleties is nothing more, and nothing less, than the

more or less direct trace marked on the heart of the element by thepsychical convergence of the universe upon itself." (The Phenomenonof Man, 1955, p. 265)

And it is in no way metaphorical to say that man finds himself capableof experiencing and discovering his God in the whole length, breadthand depth of the world in movement. To be able to say literally to Godthat one loves him, not only with all one's body, all one's heart and allone's soul, but with every fibre of the unifying universe--that is aprayer than can only be made in space-time." (The Phenomenon ofMan, 1955, p. 297)

"evolution is an ascent toward consciousness"

Thus something in the cosmos escapes from entropy, and does so more and more.

The Phenomenon of Man

Pierre Tailhard de Chardin - French Jesuit priest, paleontologist andphilosopher. After his death, he became widely known for his hugelypopular magnum opus, Phenomenon of Man. The views put forth in thismasterpiece are today considered prophetic (i.e., predicting the

emergence of the internet and communication systems and whatMarshall McLuhan would later call "the global village") by many. Heargued that the human condition necessarily leads to the psychic unity of humankind,

though he stressed that this unity can only be voluntary; this voluntary psychic unity hetermed "unanimization." Teilhard also states that "evolution is an ascent toward

consciousness", giving encephalization as an example of early stages, and therefore,

signifies a continuous upsurge toward the Omega Point,[13] which for all intents andpurposes, is God.

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Through knowledge of the universe we can know Godbecause God manifests himselfin universeGod gives many, many signs.

Osman bin Bakar Author of The history of Philosophy of Islamic Science

Note: The Koran describes science and religion as two parallel path; hospitals, algebra

and the distillation process (alcohol is an Arabic word) are all Arabic inventions.

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I dont see the value of anything that doesnt change

Marvin Minsky Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT

Author of Society of mind

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The prospects of technology appeal to peoples deepest fears as well as to their highest

hopes.

When I take phycodelics I always do it in a shamanic style, usually at night, usually

alone, in nature if possible, and then I watch, I pay very close attention, I use my mind asan alchemical vessel for carrying out observations on the union of spirit, my spirit, my

personality and matter, the physical matter of the substance that im ingesting. Terence

Mckenna - Etnobotanist

I look at space exploration, artificial intelligence, nuclear weapons, cyberspace andgenetic engineering as all essentially religious projects. The human genome doesnt

really exist because everyones genome is different. David F. Noble Historian ofTechnology

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[What is intelligence?] []its ability to solve problems with limited resources,

including time being limited, because solving a problem in a million years[]isntgood enough.

Note by G.Antuan: Kurzweil certainly gave a good definition to intelligence. I wouldsay that intelligence is the ability to create, invent, innovate or introduce bettermeans of survival under multiple circumstances, conditions or problems. The rest islearned behavior, copycats, those that pretend to be intelligent but have minimallycontributed new ideas or solutions, those that speak tons of knowledge as if it weresimple and obvious but they themselves wouldnt have never figure any of it on itsown. Apart from such an ability to imagine or synthesize ideas to create new ones,intelligence invariably deals with change and time, that is, it includes an ability to adapt,time being the crucial factor.

Ray Kurzweil inventor and futurist

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Cules son los problemas ms importantes de tu rea? Ests trabajando en alguno deellos? Por qu no? (Adaptado de la conferencia You and Your Research)

Richard Hamming-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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El hombre es verdaderamente grande cuando actaapasionadamente. Man is only truly great when he acts from passions.

La sabidura de los sabios y la experiencia de los siglospueden ser conservadas con las citas.

Nada revela tanto el carcter de una persona como suvoz.

El hombre consecuente cree en el destino; el voluble en elazar.

Alimentad el espritu con grandes pensamientos. la fe enel herosmo hace los hroes.

Los experimentos en poltica significan revoluciones.

Los defectos del gran hombre son el consuelo de losnecios.

El autor que habla de sus propios libros es peor que lamadre que slo habla de sus hijos.

Ser consciente de la propia ignorancia es un gran pasohacia el saber.

El secreto del xito en la vida del hombre consiste en estardispuesto para aprovechar la ocasin que se le depare.

Lo mejor que podemos hacer por otro no es slocompartir con l nuestras riquezas, sino mostrarle las

suyas.

El tiempo es precioso, pero la verdad es ms preciosa queel tiempo.

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El medio mejor para hacer buenos a los nios es hacerlos

felices.

El arte es la forma ms intensa de individualismo que el

mundo ha conocido. WILDE, Oscar Fingal O`Flahertie Wills

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Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beatyou with experience. Dilbert's Rules of Order.

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"if you want to be successful is just simple: know what you are doing, lovewhat you are doing and believe in what you are doing"--Will Rogers

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------"Watch your thoughts, for they become words and actions. Watch youractions, for they become habits. Watch your habits, for they becomecharacter. Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny."

Platn opta por un planteamiento dualista porque tiene claro que el mundo fsicoexiste y dice que, si el ser fuera absoluto y nico, no existira el pensar, queimplica relacionar, explicar.

Annimo

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As como peca el mdico ignorante metindose a curar, as el abogado ineptotomando una defensa.Francisco de la Vitoria

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Ya yo entiendo cmo funciona esto. Tu opinin es vlida en la medida en que

aportas o contribuyes. Ejemplo, si aportas 50% del capital, entonces tu opininvale un 50%.

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Dame un alma que no conozca el aburrimiento, los refunfuos, los suspiros y loslamentos y no permitas que me tome demasiado en serio esa cosa tan invasoraque se llama "yo".Santo Tomas Moro


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" Las cosas ms profundas de la vida las buscaramos mas si supiramos que la vida esun recurso escaso".

Claudio Naranjo Judio,Sufi, etc.Investigador espiritual. Desde su actitud tranquila ysilenciosa profundiza ms y ms en las cosas del espritu. Siempre ha sido una figura

intercultural, interdisciplinaria e interreligiosa tanto por su modo de pensar como por su

experiencia.

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Life is basically a result of an information process; a software process, ourgenetic code is our software. And our cells are dynamically constantly readingthat code, making new proteins, the proteins make then other cellular componentsand thats what we see. Craig Venter

Craig Venter Eminent biologist and entrepreneur, who lead the creation of thefirst synthetic living cell (self replicating synthetic bacteria), whose DNA wascompletely synthesized starting from the four individual elementary chemicalcompounds that make up DNA. To make sure that the living bacteria created weresynthetic bacteria and not the result of contamination, they included particularwatermarks on its synthetic DNA, which included the names of all scientificcontributors, 4 philosophic quotes and a web address.

His travels around the world oceans collecting virus and bacterial DNA were madeunder the philosophy that: Microorganisms can also hold the clue to generate analmost infinite amount of energy, to develop powerful drugs and to clean up the

contamination produced by humans. (Translated to Spanish: Los microorganismostambin pueden tener la clave para generar una casi infinita cantidad de energa,

desarrollar poderosos frmacos y limpiar la contaminacin producida por los humanos.(ref Wikipedia))

G.Antuans notes: #1: Ok Mr.Venter, so life is the result of aninformation process; but how or what arranged information insuch a way? A random process ? Does random lead to order?Or could we say that atoms and molecules somehow learn,gain experience or associate and dissociate as a purely naturalmechanism of the universe?

#2: Some argue that these are not truly synthetic bacteria, butI ask them the following: If we somehow synthesize a brainand all other components that make up a human head fromscratch, and manage to change this syntheticallymanufactured head with the head of a living person and thisnew person speaks, feels, desires, love and think, have we in


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essence created a person? Yes! Then consider that replacing acomplete DNA of a bacteria with artificially synthesized DNA isthe equivalent to a head transplant with a completelysynthesized head.

In fact, we should immediately start manufacturing thosesynthetic cells that would make Mars and our entire planetaryneighborhood hospitable. This is a crucial step to forward life,especially to overcome our actual precarious condition of'having all the eggs in the same basket', planet Earth...anyglobal catastrophe can wipe us away and make all ouradvancements useless. We need to overcome the modern flatearth conception and urgently conquer space.

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England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That is understood. But after all, itis the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simplematter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascistdictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voicethe people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy.All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce thepacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It worksthe same in any country."

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Lo peor que hacen los malos es obligarnos a dudar de los buenos.

Jacinto Benavent.

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It is difficult to believe in a culture which can develop powered flight but whichhas no more sophisticated medium of communication than scratching pictureson rocks

Si Globalizan la miseria, globalizamos la resistencia!"If they globalize misery, we will globalize resistance" Anonymous

On July 28, more than ten thousand demonstrators from forty-four countries took to the streets of Quito in aplanned protest against the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) and other national and regional tradeagreements the U.S. is pursuing throughout Latin America. Among the most prominent slogans were "If theyglobalize misery, we will globalize resistance" and "We do not want to be a U.S. colony, we want a free andsovereign Latin America."


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Success is failure turned inside out, the silver tint of the clouds of doubt

And you never can tell how close you are, It may be near when it seems so farSo stick to the fight when youre hardest hit

Its when things seem worst, That you MUST NOT QUIT! -Anonymous

A very wise person once told me that time spent on figuring out what you do NOTwant to do is often the most valuable time in your life.

At some point coincidence becomes pattern. found on a health related blog

Coincidence becomes pattern, pattern implies cause, and cause means it wasn'ta coincidence after all.

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[] [el] misterio, no es el lmite de la razn. Al contrario, es loilimitado de la razn.

Leonardo Boff telogo brasileo, ha dedicado su vida a laenseanza y al servicio de los pobres.

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Algunas posturas de yoga me causan dolor.G. V.: El dolor es cambio. Cada cambio causa dolor. Pero ese dolor te lleva hacia dondequieres ir. Lo importante es cmo reaccionamos ante el dolor, no el dolor en s mismo.

Gordana Vranjes Yoga teacher-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Lo que diferencia los actos de un hombre sensato de los actos de un insensato,es que los actos del primero se explican, es que tienen una razn de ser, es quese distingue en ellos la causa y el objetivo, el origen y el fin, mientras que losactos de un hombre privado de razn no se explican, es incapaz l mismo dediscernir la causa y el objetivo; no tiene razn de ser.

Sebastian Faur (1858-1952) escritor y filsofo anarquistafrancs. Iniciador de la Enciclopedia Anarquista. G.Antuan dice:Ateo por llamado divino.

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For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the verydefinition of slavery.

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse.Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.

Books, the children of the brain.

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is thetalent of youth, and judgment of age.

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death,should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all thecompany, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.

Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.

Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shareshis thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Proper words in proper places make the true definiton of style.

The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudicesand false opinions they contracted earlier.

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute alltheir success to prudence or merit.G.Antuan says: Who has the last word? Who is to say whether destiny or will is thesource of his condition? Certainly we can say one is humble while the other isarrogant. With or without success Id favor the humble even if only for aestheticsreasons.

The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cuttingoff our feet when we want shoes.

The want of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot beovercome.

There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.

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Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded thatsomething very useful and profound is couchedunderneath.

Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)- Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, politicalpamphleteer, poet.Inventor of the name Vanessa. One of his most important works was:Gulliver's Travels

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La realidad es aquello que, cuando dejas de creer en ella, nodesaparece.Philip K. Dick

G.Antuan: ...y aado...es cierto que debemos creer en muchas cosas que no son reales

para poder lidiar con la realidad.

hmmme hace pensarsi dejara de creer en el amor, en la amistad, en la felicidad, enel odio, en el discrimen, en la fe, en la justicia, la espiritualidad, en la belleza, estas cosasdesapareceran por completo. Que tan reales son estas entonces? Cmo la realidad

permite estas sub-realidades individuales y temporales? Qu hace que una realidad

particular persista? Los seres humanos nos caracterizamos por tener una constante

necesidad de crear realidades individuales y temporales. Estas son efectivamente eltipo de realidades que podemos manipular o controlar con tan solo nuestros

pensamientos, palabras e imaginacin. Son a estas realidades a las que aplica el tener la

precaucin de no atraerlas o atraerlas con tan solo contemplarlas. Lo dems, es decir, loscambios en la verdadera realidad, requieren esfuerzo y accin, y son regidas por la ley de

causa y efecto.

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[];was there something in him, akin to the impenetrable aloofness ofNewton, whichshut him off from his fellows and his duties at times of mental creativity ?

Turnbull quoted text from a letter where he is referring to Maclaurin

Another anonymous note regarding Maclaurin: ... such was his anxiety for theimprovement of his scholars that if at any time they seemed not fully to comprehend hismeaning, or if, upon examining them, he found they could not readily demonstrate the

propositions from which he had provided, he was apt rather to suspect his ownexplanation to have been obscure, than their want of genius or attention, and therefore

would resume the demonstration in some other method, to try if, by exposing it in adifferent light, he would give then a better view of it.

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ser culto es el nico modo de ser libre

Jos Marti (poltico, poeta y escritor cubano)

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leche de las humanidades y aprendieron, de las propias flaquezas, la dura leccin de la

imperfeccin y la vulgaridad humanas, esos saben oponerse, de un modo al que llamaramos

natural, [...] a toda doctrina racista, cualquiera que sea su origen y fundamentacin, de raza o de

frontera, de color o de sangre, de casta o religin.

Jos Saramago

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La mejor forma de tener una buena idea es... tener unmontn de ideas.

PAULING, Linus Carl - En 1931, Pauling public su obra ms importante, TheNature of the Chemical Bond("La naturaleza del enlace qumico"), en la cual desarroll

el concepto de hibridacin de los orbitales atmicos. Pauling hizo contribucionesimportantes a la definicin de la estructura de los cristalesyprotenas, y fue uno de los

fundadores de labiologa molecular. Es reconocido como un cientfico muy verstil,

debido a sus contribuciones en diversos campos, incluyendo la qumica cuntica,qumicainorgnica y orgnica, metalurgia,inmunologa, anestesiologa,psicologa,decaimiento

radiactivo y otros. Adicionalmente, Pauling abog por el consumo de grandes dosis de

vitamina C, algo que ahora se considera fuera de la ortodoxia mdica.-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Mientras ms aprendo, ms me doy cuenta de lo mucho que ignoro Annimo

La muerte esta tan segura de su victoria que nos da toda una vidade ventaja Annimo.

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Keep your words soft, just in case you have to eat them. Annimo

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"The tragedy in life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. Thetragedy lies in having no goal to reach." Benjamin Mays

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Como no me he preocupado de nacer, no me preocupo de morir. Federico GarcaLorca
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As como una jornada bien empleada produce un dulce sueo, as una vida bien usadacausa una dulce muerte. Leonardo da Vinci

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Que la vida me mate, no la muerte Leticia Herrero-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

En el caos busca la simplicidad y en la discordia la armona.

Vaca tu mente, se amorfo, moldeable, como el agua. Si pones agua en una tazase convierte en la taza. Si pones agua en una botella se convierte en la botella. Sila pones en una tetera se convierte en la tetera. El agua puede fluir o puedegolpear. S agua amigo mo.

Bruce LeeG.Antuan dice: Reconozcmoslo o no, somos como el agua !.Adaptamos nuestra forma de acuerdo al envase que nossostiene. La forma externa determina la forma interna.Inevitablemente fluimos por la forma externaes de estaforma que somos amorfos por naturaleza.

La forma externa da forma a la forma interna; eso somos...formainterna. Es cuestin de admirar la primera...la forma infinita. Comoagua somos, con forma de la botella que nos sostiene en unmomento o del vaso que nos sostiene en otro momento...sonestas formas externas (vaso, botella, etc) los moldes denuestra existencia...estos moldes pertenecen a la formainfinita.-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

No es la doctrina, es el proceso lo que los clasifica como sectas destructivas.

Los cultos bsicamente tienen slo dos propsitos, reclutar nuevosmiembros y el recaudar fondos. Las religiones establecidas y losmovimientos altruistas pueden reclutar nuevos miembros y recaudarfondos. Los cultos pueden reclamar que hacen contribuciones sociales,pero en la realidad stas siguen siendo slo meras reclamaciones, ogestos nada ms. Su enfoque siempre se domina por el reclutamientode nuevos miembros y las recaudaciones de fondos. Los cultos


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aparentan ser innovadores y exclusivos. El lder reclama que estrompiendo con la tradicin, ofreciendo algo innovador, e instituyendoel nico sistema viable para cambios que resolver los problemas devida o las heridas del mundo. Mientras reclaman esto, el cultoentonces usa sus sistemas de coercin psicolgica sobre los miembros

para inhibir su habilidad para examinar la validez real de las demandasdel lder y del culto.

Rafael Guillermo Orientando Vidas

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"If you seek to aid everyone that suffers in the galaxy, you will only weaken

yourself and weaken them. It is the internal struggles, when fought and won on

their own, that yield the strongest rewards If you care for others, then dispense

with pity and sacrifice and recognize the value in letting them fight their ownbattles." Nietzsche ??-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

"Quin no conoci la inquietud, jams conocer el descanso."

"La filosofa responde a la necesidad de hacernos unaconcepcin unitaria y total del mundo y de la vida."

"Es dbil porque no ha dudado bastante y ha querido llegar aconclusiones."

"Una de las ventajas de no ser feliz es que se puede desear lafelicidad."

"El que tiene fe en s mismo no necesita que los dems crean enl."

"El ajedrez procura una suerte de inteligencia que sirve

nicamente para jugar al ajedrez."

"Obra de modo que merezcas a tu propio juicio y a juicio de losdems la eternidad, que te hagas insustituible, que no merezcasmorir."


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"Hay que buscar la verdad y no la razn de las cosas. Y laverdad se busca con humildad."

Lo sabe todo, absolutamente todo. Figrense lo tonto que ser.

Hay gentes tan llenas de sentido comn, que no les queda el mspequeo rincn para el sentido propio.

Los satisfechos, los felices, no aman; se duermen en la costumbre.

Pedimos milagros, como si no fuese el milagro ms evidente el quelos pidamos.

La vida no es sueo. El ms vigoroso tacto espiritual es

la necesidad de persistencia en una forma u otra. Elanhelo de extenderse en tiempo y en espacio.

La verdadera ciencia ensea, por encima de todo, a dudar y a serignorante.

El escritor slo puede interesar a lahumanidad cuando en sus obras se interesa

por la humanidad.Hay que sentir el pensamiento y pensar el sentimiento.

El rico no es el que posee oro y plata, sino el que se

contenta con poco.

Procuremos ms ser padres de nuestro porvenir que hijos de nuestro pasado.

Miguel de Unamuno

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I think theyre missing the whole message of scientific history which is: The greatest

obstacle to progress in science is the illusion of knowledge; the illusion that we know
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already whats going onwhen we dont. Prof. Mike Disney astronomer Carneige

University and member of Hubble space telescope science committee

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"El ser humano tiene un doble problema: no

aprende las verdades demasiado complicadas y

olvida las que son demasiado simples." Dame R.

West

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Fallor ergo sum; I err therefore I am

Qu es, pues, el tiempo? Si nadie me lo pregunta, lo s; pero si quiero explicrselo alque me lo pregunta, no lo s. Lo que s digo sin vacilacin es que s que si nada pasase

no habra tiempo pasado; y si nada sucediese, no habra tiempo futuro; y si nada existiese,

no habra tiempo presente. Pero aquellos dos tiempos, pretrito y futuro, cmo pueden

ser, si el pretrito ya no es l y el futuro todava no es? Y en cuanto al presente, si fuesesiempre presente y no pasase a ser pretrito, ya no sera tiempo, sino eternidad. Si, pues,

el presente, para ser tiempo es necesario que pase a ser pretrito, cmo decimos que

existe ste, cuya causa o razn de ser est en dejar de ser, de tal modo que no podemos

decir con verdad que existe el tiempo sino en cuanto tiende a no ser?San Agustin Confesiones: Capitulo Undcimo

San Agustin

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"Si no visemos a Dios de alguna manera, no veramos ninguna cosa"

"El necio encuentra siempre otro mucho mayor que le admire."La lectura es de gran utilidad cuando se medita lo que se lee.Dios es infalible en su propia naturaleza: no puede estar sujeto a error a o pecado, pues

es su propia luz y su propia ley.Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order toconceive.

Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715) - filsofo (Racionalismo) y telogofrancs

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"Deus sive natura", Dios o la naturaleza

Son numerosos los ejemplos de hombres que a causa desus riquezas han sufrido una persecucin que lleg hasta la

muerte; y tambin de hombresque, por adquirir bienes, se expusieron a tantos peligros queacabaron por pagar su desatino con la vida. Y no son menosnumerosos los ejemplos de quienessufrieron cruelmente por adquirir o conservar el honor (uorgullo). Innumerables, en fin, son los ejemplos de aquellosque han apresurado su muerte por el exceso de placer. Porlo dems, esos males parecan provenir de que toda nuestrafelicidad o infelicidad reside en un slo punto: qu clase

de objeto estamos apegados por el amor (o el deseo)? Enefecto, lo que no se ama no engendra nunca disputa; noestaremos tristes si se pierde, ni sentiremos envidia si caeen posesin de otro; ni temor, ni odio, en una palabra,ninguna conmocin del alma. [] Mas el amor hacia unacosa eterna e infinita alimenta el alma con una alegrapura y exenta de toda tristeza; bien grandementedeseable y que merece ser buscado con todasnuestras fuerzas. [] mientras mi espritu estabaentregado a tales meditaciones, se apartaba de las cosasperecederas.

[] a medida que su conocimiento abarca ms cosas,adquiere nuevos instrumentos que le permiten avanzar conmayor facilidad.

[] si una cosa compuesta de muchas partes esdividida mentalmenteen todas sus

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