“It is easy to criticize the "fanaticism" of our ancestors when one has lost the very notion of saving truth, or to be "tolerant" when one derides religion.”

—  Frithjof Schuon

[2006, Light on the Ancient Worlds, World Wisdom, 9, 978-0-941532-72-3]
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