In an interview with Ms. Barkha Dutt #Townhall with Kamal Haasan, about atheism and rationalism.
“The things… which are proper to the understanding no other man is used to impede”
VIII, 41
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VIII
Context: The things... which are proper to the understanding no other man is used to impede, for neither fire, nor iron, nor tyrant, nor abuse, touches it in any way. When it has been made a sphere, it continues a sphere.
Source: Autobiography (1873), Ch. 7: General View of the Remainder of My Life (p. 206)
Sourced to the book, The Ascent of Man (1973), BBC Books: London, Chapter 13: The Long Childhood, p. 330.
The Ascent of Man (1973)
Context: We are all afraid - for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do. The personal commitment of a man to his skill, the intellectual commitment and the emotional commitment working together as one, has made the Ascent of Man.
Time in History: Views of Time from Prehistory to the Present Day (1988)
Context: The development of rational thought actually seems to have impeded man's appreciation for the significance of time.... Belief that the ultimate reality is timeless is deeply rooted in human thinking, and the origin of rational investigation of the world was the search for permanent factors that lie behind the ever-changing pattern of events.<!--p.22
Episode 1: "Lower than the Angels"
The Ascent of Man (1973)
Source: Mind is a Myth (1987), Ch. 4: There Is Nothing To Understand
“35. Prayer is an ascent of the spirit to God.”
Chapters on Prayer
