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Keith, William. Mount Shasta and Castle Lake. 1878. Oil on canvas, 101.6 × 182.9 cm (40 × 72 in.). Oakland Museum of California, Oakland. Gift of the Women's Board of the Oakland Museum Association, accession no. L68.28.1.

Muir, John The Mountains of California

The winds flow in melody through their colossal spires, and they are vocal everywhere with the songs of birds and running water.

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Read more about the article Leo Tolstoy The Kingdom of God Is Within You
Ge, Nikolai Nikolaevich. Calvary (Golgotha). 1893. Oil on canvas, 222.4 × 191.6 cm. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.

Leo Tolstoy The Kingdom of God Is Within You

"State authority, even if it clears away old injustices, always creates new ones, just because it is state authority. It cannot act otherwise, for it is based on violence, and violence is the negation of love."

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Nikolai Ge, 'What is Truth?' (Christ and Pilate), 1890. Source: Print Collector / Getty Images

Leo Tolstoy My Religion

I do not now concern myself with theology and the Gospels, but with an inner work of an entirely different nature. I have to do now, with nothing systematic or methodical, only with that sudden light which showed me the Gospel doctrine in all its simple beauty.

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Read more about the article Kierkegaard Fear and Trembling: A Dialectical Lyric
Rembrandt van Rijn. The Sacrifice of Isaac. 1635. Oil on canvas, 193 × 132 cm. State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg.

Kierkegaard Fear and Trembling: A Dialectical Lyric

And again, must one not loathe being human? For these millions who on their knees made pilgrimage to His grave, this throng of people which no power on earth was able to overcome: but one thing were necessary, Christ's return—and all these millions would quickly regain their feet to run their way, so that the whole throng were as if blown away; or would, in a mass, and erect enough, rush upon Christ in order to kill him.

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