The Eight

“People who threaten defenseless animals are just trying to cover up their own impotence.…”

The Morals of Chess—and speaks of how we might learn many lessons in life from a thorough study of the game.

They worshiped the moon goddess—Car. As the moon controls the tides, so the Phoenicians ruled the seas, from which spring the greatest mystery of all—life.’

What is the future? What is the past? What are we? What is the magic fluid that surrounds us and conceals the things we most need to know? We live and die in the midst of marvels.
—Napoleon Bonaparte

More than one revolution will be launched in the name of the ‘virtues’ he preaches—yet he seeks a tool of such power that it would place all men in chains … except its possessor!”

“It is one thing to speak of the principles of freedom and virtue,” said the abbess dryly, “and another to act upon them.

Tactics were short-term moves to position yourself. But strategy was how you won the game.

Quaerendo invenietis. Seek, and ye shall find.

“Words have the power to create and kill,” Bach said simply. “That Great Architect who made us all, made words, too. In fact, He made them first, if we may believe St. John in the New Testament.”

Whether you believe the word ‘music’ came from ‘Musa,’ the Muses, or from ‘muta,’ meaning mouth of the Oracle, it makes no difference.