“Ancient simplicity is gone…the people of today are satisfied with nothing but finery.”

Source: Dynamics Of Theology, Chapter Six, Scripture and Theology, p. 118

The Essential Epicurus : Letters, Principal Doctrines, Vatican sayings, and fragments (1993) edited by Eugene Michael O'Connor, p. 99

Source: How Jesus Became God (2014), Ch. 1: 'Divine Humans in Ancient Greece and Rome'

Source: Sartre: Romantic Rationalist (1953), Ch. 7, p. 113

[In the Company of the Holy Mother, 124-125]

Source: Alcestis (438 BC), l. 788

The Snow Leopard (1978)
Context: The ancient intuition that all matter, all “reality,” is energy, that all phenomena, including time and space, are mere crystallizations of mind, is an idea with which few physicists have quarreled since the theory of relativity first called into question the separate identities of energy and matter. Today most scientists would agree with the ancient Hindus that nothing exists or is destroyed, things merely change shape or form; that matter is insubstantial in origin, a temporary aggregate of the pervasive energy that animates the electron. … The cosmic radiation that is thought to come from the explosion of creation strikes the earth with equal intensity from all directions, which suggests either that the earth is at the center of the universe, as in our innocence we once supposed, or that the known universe has no center. Such an idea holds no terror for mystics; in the mystical vision, the universe, its center, and its origins are simultaneous, all around us, all within us, and all One.

Les délicats sont malheureux:
Rien ne saurait les satisfaire.
Book II (1668), fable 1.
Fables (1668–1679)

Original: (it) Le persone speciali ti conquistano con la loro semplicità.
Source: prevale.net