Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; Music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness.
-Edgar Allan Poe
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Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.
-J. Krishnamurti
Religion is something infinitely simple, ingenuous... In the infinite extent of the universe, it is a direction of the heart.
-Rainer Maria Rilke
There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously.
-Thomas Sowell
My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
-Abraham Lincoln
Music is pleasing not only because of the sound but because of the silence that is in it: without the alternation of sound and silence there would be no rhythm.
-Thomas Merton
The worthy person is grateful and mindful of benefits done to him. This gratitude, this mindfulness, is congenial to the best people.
-Scriptures
