From your past emerges the present, and from the present is born your future.

The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.

But the perception of life as an organic unity is a slow achievement, and depends for its growth on a people's entry into the main current of world-events.

Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.

The spirit of philosophy is one of free inquiry. It suspects all authority. Its function is to trace the uncritical assumptions of human thought to their hiding places, and in this pursuit it may finally end in denial or a frank admission of the incapacity of pure reason to reach the ultimate reality.

Since love first made the breast an instrument Of fierce lamenting, by its flame my heart Was molten to a mirror, like a rose I pluck my breast apart, that I may hang This mirror in your sight.

From your past emerges the present, and from the present is born your future.