Mo’ai Heads, Easter Island
We could hardly conceive how these islanders, wholly unacquainted with any mechanical power, could raise such stupendous figures –Capt. James Cook
Hagia Sophia, Turkey
Istanbul … the constant beating of the wave of the East against the rock of the West. –Susan Moody
Jayadeva’s Gita Govinda
“Abhinava jaladhara sundara” — beautifully dark-hued like a fresh rain-bearing cloud (shritha Kamala kucha)
Averroes Commentaries on Aristotle & Plato
Ignorance leads to fear, fear leads to hate, and hate leads to violence. This is the equation. –Averroes
Avicenna’s The Canon of Medicine
If you wish to avoid illness, divide your stomach into three parts,
A third for respiration, a third for food and the rest for water.
–Ibn Sina
Murasaki Shikibu The Tale of Genji
No art or learning is to be pursued halfheartedly…and any art worth learning will certainly reward more or less generously the effort made to study it. -Murasaki Shikibu,
Shantideva’s Way of the Bodhisattva
All the suffering there is in this world arises from wishing our self to be happy. All the happiness there is in this world arises from wishing others to be happy.
-Shantideva
Last Judgment, Autun Cathedra
May this terror terrify those whom earthly error binds for the horror of the images here in this manner truly depicts what will be.
-Last Judgement Inscription
Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy
The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.
-Dante Alighieri
The Lancet Windows of Sainte Chapelle
14 out of the 15 stained glass windows depict an impressive 1,113 biblical figures.
