
Source: Soldiers Live (2000), Chapter 139, “Taglios: The Great General” (p. 762)
Things to Come (1936)
Source: Soldiers Live (2000), Chapter 139, “Taglios: The Great General” (p. 762)
The Ethics of Belief (1877), The Weight Of Authority
Context: We have no right to believe a thing true because everybody says so unless there are good grounds for believing that some one person at least has the means of knowing what is true, and is speaking the truth so far as he knows it. However many nations and generations of men are brought into the witness-box they cannot testify to anything which they do not know. Every man who has accepted the statement from somebody else, without himself testing and verifying it, is out of court; his word is worth nothing at all. And when we get back at last to the true birth and beginning of the statement, two serious questions must be disposed of in regard to him who first made it: was he mistaken in thinking that he knew about this matter, or was he lying?
The Unity of Religious Ideals, Part I : Seeking for the Ideal.
The Spiritual Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan
Book 1, p. 1
Cosmotheoros (1695; publ. 1698)
“Is life a boon?
If so it must befall
That death when e're he call
Must call too soon.”
The Yeomen of the Guard (1888)
Great Books: The Foundation of a Liberal Education (1954)