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Gold in the Fire
Compassion is the most important and perhaps the only law of life for all humanity.
— Fedor Dostoevsky
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Man doesn’t only live by bread. If I were hungry and without strength on the road, I would not ask for bread; but I would ask for half a loaf and a book. And I violently attack from here those who talk only about economic claims without ever naming the cultural claims which are what they demand shouting from the citizens. It’s good for all men to eat, but also for all men to know. Let them enjoy all the fruits of the human spirit, because the opposite is to turn them into machines in the service of the State, and to turn them into slaves of a terrible social organization.
— Federico Garcia Lorca
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The truer the love, the rougher the road.
The more you love, the more difficulties
and trials are put in your way.
Gold to be pure, must be put to the fire.
— Maharaj Jagat Singh, The Science of the Soul
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There’s no such thing as neutral education. Education either functions as an instrument to bring about conformity or freedom.
— Paulo Freire
