"...Be assured, Lords and Commons, there can no greater testimony appear, than when your prudent spirit acknowledges and obeys the voice of reason from what quarters soever it be heard speaking;... For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are;... Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the reason of God... That this is not therefore the disburdening of a particular fancy, but the common grievance of all those who had prepared their minds and studies above the vulgar pitch to advance truth in others." --Milton

"Aristotle, more than any other thinker, determined the orientation and the content of Western intellectual history."

These fine minds, all people just like us.

"This Old World we’ve named Cosmos by mistake
Is the graveyard of nights & days, no more awake...
The secrets eternal neither you know nor I
And answers to the riddle neither you know nor I
Behind the veil there is much talk about us, why
When the veil falls, neither you remain nor I." -Rubaiyat