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Zoroaster

Zoroaster

Zoroaster, also known as Zarathustra or Zartosht, was a religious reformer and the spiritual founder of Zoroastrianism. In about 1000 BC he founded the first documented monotheistic religion in the world and also had an impact on Plato, Pythagoras, and the Abrahamic religions, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.[1]

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@ Unto Thee, O Lord, the Soul of Creation cried:
"For whom didst Thou create me, and who so fashioned me?
Feuds and fury, violence and the insolence of might have oppressed me;
None have I to protect me save Thee;
Command for me then the blessings of a settled, peaceful life."

[Ahunuvaiti Gatha; Yasna 29, 1.][2][3]

@ Thus to the Lord doth Asha, the Truth, reply:
"No guide is known who can shelter the world from woe,
None who knows what moves and works Thy lofty plans."

[Ahunuvaiti Gatha; Yasna 29, 3.]

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoroaster

[2] https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Zoroaster

[3] https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Category:BCE_deaths

Zusha of Hanipol

Zusha of Hanipol

Rabbi Meshulam Zusha of Hanipol or Meshulum Zusil of Anipoli (1718–1800), Reb Zusha (also spelled Zusya), Reb Zushe, The Rebbe Reb Zusha was an early Hasidic luminary and well-known tzaddik. He was one of the great Hasidic Rebbes of the third generation and member of the academy circle of the Maggid of Mezeritch.[1]

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@ In the coming world they will not ask me—Why were you not Moses? They will ask me—Why were you not Zusya? [Quoted by Martin Buber in Tales of the Hassidim: The Early Masters, Shocken Books 1968, p. 141][2]

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Book by Rabbi Zoussia of Anapoli, "Menorat Zahav" (Candelabra of Gold). Edition from 1902

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zusha_of_Hanipol

[2] http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Zusha_of_Hanipol

Bernard Baars (1946- )

Bernard Baars (1946- )

Bernard J. Baars (born 1946, in Amsterdam) is a former Senior Fellow in Theoretical Neurobiology at The Neurosciences Institute in San Diego, CA., and is currently an Affiliated Fellow there.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Baars

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)

Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (15 April 1452 – 2 May 1519) was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect.[1]

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This portrait attributed to Francesco Melzi, c. 1515–1518, is the only certain contemporary depiction of Leonardo.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_da_Vinci

Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830)

Thomas Lawrence

Sir Thomas Lawrence(13 April 1769 – 7 January 1830) was an English portrait painter and the fourth president of the Royal Academy.[1]

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Margaret, Countess of Blessington, 1822

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Lawrence

John William Waterhouse (1849-1917)

John William Waterhouse

John William Waterhouse (baptised 6 April 1849 – 10 February 1917) was an English painter known for working first in the Academic style and for then embracing the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood's style and subject matter.[1]

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Waterhouse, c. 1886

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1870s


Undine, 1872

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_William_Waterhouse

Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1527-1593)

Giuseppe Arcimboldo

Giuseppe Arcimboldo, also spelled Arcimboldi (Italian: [dʒuˈzɛppe artʃimˈbɔldo]; 5 April 1527 – 11 July 1593), was an Italian Renaissance painter best known for creating imaginative portrait heads made entirely of objects such as fruits, vegetables, flowers, fish and books.[1]

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Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1527-1593), Rudolf II of Habsurg as Vertumnus, 1591, oil on panel, 70 x 58 cm, Skokloster Castle

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Arcimboldo

René Descartes (1596-1650)

René Descartes

René Descartes (31 March 1596 – 11 February 1650) was a French philosopher, scientist, and mathematician, widely considered a seminal figure in the emergence of modern philosophy and science.[1]

Quotes·Quotations by René Descartes

Existence

¶ I think, therefore I am.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Descartes

John Smibert (1688-1751)

John Smibert

John Smibert (rarely spelled Smybert; /ˈsmaɪbət/; 24 March 1688 – 2 April 1751) was a Scottish-born painter, regarded as the first academically trained artist to live and work regularly in British America.[1]

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