Giants

Filed Under Gnostic Quotes | May 1, 2006

"If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." - Isaac Newton

"A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two." - George Herbert, 1593-1632

"The Giants who formed this world into its sensual existence and now seem to live in it in chains, are in truth, the causes of its life & the sources of all activity; but the chains are the cunning of weak and tame minds which have power to resist energy, according to the proverb: the weak in courage is strong in cunning." - William Blake, A Memorable Fancy, Plate 16

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