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Richard Francis Burton1821–1890

Reason is Life’s sole arbiter, the magic Laby’rinth’s single clue:
Worlds lie above, beyond its ken; what crosses it can ne’er be true.

Richard Francis Burton on thinking

The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)

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All Faith is false, all Faith is true: Truth is the shattered mirror strown
In myriad bits; while each believes his little bit the whole to own.
The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)
- Faith
- Truth & Lies
Travellers like poets are mostly an angry race.
“Narrative of a Trip to Harar” (11 June 1855); published in The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society (June 1855)
- Anger
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night (1885) Terminal Essay: Social Conditions, fn. 13.
- Anti-Religion
- Religion

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