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“We are like icebergs in the ocean: one-eighth part consciousness and the rest submerged beneath the surface of articulate apprehension.”

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William Gerhardie

William Gerhardie was an English novelist known for his distinctive literary style and profound psychological descriptions. His works often explore the complexities of human nature and the exploration of personal identity and self-awareness. more

“There are times when you come across somebody that's really impressive, someone that's got a proper living and really does make a difference to people's lives. Then I do feel a bit of a wanker, admitting I'm an actress. That's hard to say to someone who may be making a difference. But I don't know how I could change things.”

People Knows Feels May Doe Hard Bits Differences Know How Actresses Making A Difference Impressive Admitting

Author:Michelle Gomez

“Non-Newtonian calculi... have considerable potential as alternative approaches to traditional problems.”

Problem Approach Traditional Alternatives

Author:Ivor Grattan-Guinness

“It [ non-Euclidean geometry ] would be ranked among the most famous achievements of the entire [nineteenth] century, but up to 1860 the interest was rather slight.”

Would Be Interest Century Achievement Geometry Nineteenth Century

Author:Ivor Grattan-Guinness

“In addition, the teaching of theories from axioms, or some close imitation of them such as the basic laws of an algebra, is usually an educational disaster.”

Law Teaching Theory Educational Disaster Imitation Axioms Algebra

Author:Ivor Grattan-Guinness

“Anacalypsis: An Attempt to Draw Aside the Veil of the Saitic or an Inquiry into the Origin of Languages, Nations and Religions.”

Language Nations Draws Inquiry Veils

Book:Eadras and the Ancient Jewish Cabal

Source: Eadras and the Ancient Jewish Cabal

“When I consider all the circumstances detailed above respecting the Pans, I cannot help believing that, under the mythos, a doctrine or history of a sect is concealed. Cunti, the wife of Pandu (du or God, Pan), wife of the generative power, mother of the Pandavas or devas, daughter of Sura or Syra the Sun Pandæa only daughter of Cristna or the Sun Pandion, who had by Medea a son called Medus, the king of the Medes, who had a cousin, the famous Perseus surely all this is very mythological an historical parable!”

Believe Helping Mother Sun Wife Son Kings Circumstances Daughter Historical Doctrine Cousin Concealed Sects Parables Medea Perseus Only Daughter

Book:Anacalypsis: An Attempt to Draw Aside the Veil of the Saitic Isis : Or, An Inquiry Into the Origin of Languages, Nations, and Religions

Source: Anacalypsis: An Attempt to Draw Aside the Veil of the Saitic Isis : Or, An Inquiry Into the Origin of Languages, Nations, and Religions

“We have seen that though Cristna was said to have left many sons, he left his immense empire, which extended from the sources of the Indus to Cape Comorin, (for we find a Regio Pandionis near this point,) to his daughter Pandæa; but, from finding the icon of Buddha so constantly shaded with the nine Cobras, &c., I am induced to think that this Pandeism was a doctrine, which had been received both by Buddhists and Brahmins.”

Thinking Said Left Son Source Findings Daughter Nine Doctrine Buddhist Empires Immense Icons Capes Cobras Brahmins

Book:Anacalypsis

Source: Anacalypsis

“Indeed I cannot doubt that there has been really one grand empire, or one Universal, one Pandæan, or one Catholic religion, with one language, which has extended over the whole of the world; uniting or governing at the same time.”

World Has Beens Whole Language Doubt Universal Catholic Empires Governing Uniting Catholic Religion

Book:Anacalypsis

Source: Anacalypsis

“[T]he Rev. R. Taylor, A.M., the Deist, now in gaol, infamously persecuted by the Whigs for his religious opinions, in his learned defense of Deism called the Diegesis, has clearly proved all the heirarchical institutions of the Christians to be a close copy of those of the Essenians of Egypt.”

Christian Religious Opinion Institutions Defense Copies Egypt Persecuted Deism Deist

Author:Godfrey Higgins

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