It started with Socrates. He began by discussing the nature of truth with his friends. Among them was born the first community of learners about which we have any reliable evidence. This community laid the conceptual foundation for a society governed by human dignity and justice, the rule of law and ideals of moral character. All of us are the heirs of that society. If such a humane culture is to continue, we need to reforge it constantly in our elementary and secondary classrooms.
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Aleksander Hemon on the Nature of the World
All the lives we could live, all the people we will never know, never will be, they are everywhere. That is what the world is.
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Blake on the Infinite Manifest
To see a world in a grain of sand, And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand, And Eternity in an hour.
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Tolkien on the Work of Small Hands
This quest may be attempted by the weak with as much hope as the strong. Yet such is oft the course of deeds that move the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere.
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Ancient Homily on Holy Saturday
Truly he goes to seek out our first parent like a lost sheep; he wishes to visit those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death. He goes to free the prisoner Adam and his fellow-prisoner Eve from their pains, he who is God, and Adam's son.
