Poets and prophets do not go into committees. - Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

We invent by intuition, though we prove by logic.

It takes centuries to make a little history; it takes centuries of history to make a tradition.

The intolerance of narrow monotheism is written in letters of blood across the history of man from the time when first the tribes of Israel burst into the land of Canaan. The worshippers of the one jealous God are egged on to aggressive wars against people of alien cults. They invoke divine sanction for the cruelties inflicted on the conquered. The spirit of old Israel is inherited by Christianity and Islam.