A trite but effective tactic against the fear of death: think of the list of people who had to be pried away from life. What did they gain by dying old?
— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (4.50)
the Pyramid Temple Complex of King SahuRa (ca. 2458–2446 BCE) at Bousiri, next to modern Cairo (pr-Wsjr, “the House of Osiris”, that is the name of more than ten sacred cities of Egypt)
I know things are very tough right now, and things don’t look too promising. But we will stand up to the challenge. We will not go quietly. We are fierce, and we are not silent. I stand with her, for justice, for ma'at.
statues of the Goddess Sekhmet from the Precinct of the Goddess Mut at ‘Uaset’-Thebes. Dated to the reign of King Amenhotep III (ca. 1390–1352 BCE). Now in the British Museum…
“The worst thing about stubbornness of mind, about prejudices, is that they arrest development; they shut off the mind from new stimuli.” – John Dewey, Democracy and Education