“We two have secret signs,
known to us both but hidden from the world.”
XXIII. 109–110 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
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Lynn Compton (1921–2012) Easy Company soldier turned noted jurist
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“He who would know the secret of both worlds,
Will find the secret of them both, is Love.”
Attar of Nishapur (1145–1230) Persian Sufi poet
"Intoxicated by the Wine of Love" as translated by Margaret Smith from "The Jawhar Al-Dhat"
Theodore Roszak (1933–2011) American social historian, social critic, writer
The Gendered Atom: Reflections on the Sexual Psychology of Science (1999)
Context: Here, at the birth of modern science, is a fundamental insight. Our knowledge of nature Out There begins with knowledge of ourselves In Here. Until we have freed our minds and emotions of the hidden presuppositions that stand between us and the world, we can never be certain we are in touch with reality.
Afterword: The Idols of the Bedchamber
Francisco Franco (1892–1975) Spanish general and dictator
Writing under the alias Jakin Boor in the journal Arriba in an article, "Masonry and Communism" (14 December 1946), as quoted in Franco: A Biography by Juan Pablo Fusi Aizpurúạ, p. 71
Cormac McCarthy (1933) American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter
Blood Meridian (1985)
Source: Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
Context: The judge tilted his great head. The man who believes that the secrets of this world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down. The rain will erode the deeds of his life. But that man who sets himself the task of singling out the thread of order from the tapestry will by the decision alone have taken charge of the world and it is only by such taking charge that he will effect a way to dictate the terms of his own fate.
