If gold rusts, what then can iron do?

The harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language (LW)

Unfold your own myth

Sunlight fell upon the wall; the wall received a borrowed splendor. Why set your heart on a piece of earth, O simple one? Seek out the source which shines forever. (Rumi)

Mother Earth

“The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.”
(Emma Goldman) 

A Word in Your Ear

The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.  (Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban PC KC)

Brave

Good writing is like a windowpane. (George Orwell)

Fresh air?

The Future Tense

The individual whose vision encompasses the whole world often feels nowhere so hedged in and out of touch with his surroundings as in his native land (Emma Goldman)

The Parting of the Ways

Future editions of the Primer in Hermeneutics have been suspended, and interested parties are being referred to the Maynbilder Gallery.

A Primer in Hermeneutics (Epilogue) - Drawing these tides of Men

All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake up in the day to find it was vanity, but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible (T.E.Lawrence)

A Primer in Hermeneutics (Lesson 15) - But now they softly run

It was so old a ship and yet so beautiful.

A Primer in Hermeneutics (Lesson 14) - Mellow fruitfulness

Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they?
Think not of them, thou hast thy music too.

A Primer in Hermeneutics (Lesson 13) - Memories of the Grand Tour

Mantegna was eminent as an engraver, though his history in that respect is somewhat obscure, partly because he never signed or dated any of his plates, but for a single disputed instance of 1472.

A Primer in Hermeneutics (Lesson 12)- When you walk in the garden...

...until the sunshine breaks forth upon our land...