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Peter Kingsley

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Ancient Philosophy, Mystery and Magic: Empedocles and Pythagorean Tradition is a book by Peter Kingsley, a work of classical scholarship in which the title signals an engagement with Empedocles and the Pythagorean tradition.

Kingsley was born on 1 January 1953 in England and holds United Kingdom citizenship. He attended Highgate School before going on to the University of Lancaster and subsequently the University of Cambridge. He works as a philosopher, writer, and classical scholar, and writes in English.

In addition to Ancient Philosophy, Mystery and Magic, Kingsley is the author of In the Dark Places of Wisdom and Reality. These three titles together constitute the body of work attributed to him in the available record, spanning his roles as both a scholar and a writer.

Kingsley's work as a philosopher and classical scholar is represented across these three books: Ancient Philosophy, Mystery and Magic, In the Dark Places of Wisdom, and Reality. Each is a distinct publication, and together they form the documented output of a writer educated at Highgate School, the University of Lancaster, and the University of Cambridge, who was born in England on 1 January 1953.

Quotes by Peter Kingsley

In our unconsciousness we take credit where no credit is due, oblivious to the real source of everything we pretend is ours – the sacred origin not just of religion but also of everything else, of science and technology, education and law, of medicine, logic, architecture, ordinary daily life, the cry of longing, the excruciating ache of the awakening love for wisdom.
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In our unconsciousness we take credit where no credit is due, oblivious to the real source of everything we pretend is ours – the sacred origin not just of religion but also of everything else, of science and technology, education and law, of medicine, logic, architecture, ordinary daily life, the cry of longing, the excruciating ache of the awakening love for wisdom.
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Dreams become a reality when we put our mind into it.
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Dreams become a reality when we put our mind into it.
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Rationality is simply mysticism misunderstood.
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Rationality is simply mysticism misunderstood.
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[E]ach culture is just like a tree whose essence and whole potential are already contained in the seed. Nothing during the course of a civilization is ever discovered, or invented, or created, which was not already present inside that seed.
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[E]ach culture is just like a tree whose essence and whole potential are already contained in the seed. Nothing during the course of a civilization is ever discovered, or invented, or created, which was not already present inside that seed.
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#reality #civilization
[G]radually, skillfully, [Parmenides] conjures up the image of us humans as stuck at this place where the road divides—unable to decide between the two paths, incapable even of seeing what the choice involves, just dithering in the space in between.
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[G]radually, skillfully, [Parmenides] conjures up the image of us humans as stuck at this place where the road divides—unable to decide between the two paths, incapable even of seeing what the choice involves, just dithering in the space in between.
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#reality #illusion
In our unconsciousness we take credit where no credit is due, oblivious to the real source of everything we pretend is ours—the sacred origin not just of religion but also of everything else, of science and technology, education and law, of medicine, logic, architecture, ordinary daily life, the cry of longing, the excruciating ache of the awakening love for wisdom.
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In our unconsciousness we take credit where no credit is due, oblivious to the real source of everything we pretend is ours—the sacred origin not just of religion but also of everything else, of science and technology, education and law, of medicine, logic, architecture, ordinary daily life, the cry of longing, the excruciating ache of the awakening love for wisdom.
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#reality #wisdom #soul