{"quotes":[{"text":"What is the truth?’ he asked. ‘We place faith in ourselves,’ replied Altaïr (...) ‘We see the world as it really is, and hope that one day all mankind might see the same.’‘What is the world, then?’‘An illusion,’ replied Altaïr. ‘One we can either submit to – as most do – or transcend.’‘And what is it to transcend?’'To recognize that laws arise not from divinity, but reason. I understand now that our Creed does not command us to be free.’ And suddenly he really did understand. ‘It commands us to be wise.","author":"Oliver Bowden","tags":["al-mualim","altair","altaïr","answer","assassin","assassin-s-creed","command","cool","creed","crusade","divinity","faith","free","freedom","hope","illusion","laws","lie","mankind","mart","mualim","oliver-bowden","ourselves","people","question","quote","reality","really","reason","recognize","secret","submit","to-be","transcend","true","truth","understand","understandm-wise","wisdom","world"],"id":127280,"author_id":"Oliver+Bowden"},{"text":"Reflective learning provokes critical thinking, enabling us to pose relevant questions, revealing the profound oceans of ignorance that surround even the most learned scholars in our fields of modern knowledge, invoking us to be active participants in the crusade for equality, representation, and social justice.","author":"Martin Guevara Urbina","tags":["critical-thinking","crusade","equality","ignorance","knowledge","learning","relevant-questions","representation","scholars","social-justice"],"id":163564,"author_id":"Martin+Guevara+Urbina"},{"text":"These bits of paper are covered with lies. They poison your minds. And so long as they exist, you cannot hope to see the world as it truly is.(...)You turn to them for answers and salvation. (...) You rely more upon them than upon yourselves. This makes you weak and stupid. You trust in words. Drops of ink. Do you ever stop to think of who put them there? Or why? No. You simply accept their words without question. And what if those words speak falsely, as they often do? This is dangerous.","author":"Oliver Bowden","tags":["accept","altair","altaïr","answer","assassin-s-creed","believe","blind","books","cary","crusade","dangerous","exist","false","hope","ink","jubair","knowledge","lies","look","master","mind","oliver-bowden","paper","poison","power","question","quote","rely","salvation","scholar","secret","see","smart","think","true","truth","wisdom","words"],"id":230463,"author_id":"Oliver+Bowden"},{"text":"Only a mind free of impediment is capable of grasping the chaotic beauty of the world. This is our greatest asset.","author":"Oliver Bowden","tags":["altair","altaïr","assassin","assassin-s-creed","asset","beautiful","beauty","capable","chaos","chaotic","creed","crusade","free","freedom","grasping","greatest","impediment","life","live","maria","mind","oliver-bowden","only","quote","secret","smart","think","wife","wisdom","wise","world"],"id":300721,"author_id":"Oliver+Bowden"},{"text":"Religion is the most powerful entity on earth. A phenomenon that has conscripted millions to give or sacrifice their lives without so much as a minuscule query about their chosen beliefs or particular ideology. And today thousands of years on despite the huge advent, discovery and the advance of science forensic or otherwise, millions are still prepared and equipped to fall or kill in the name of their God, their Holy Scriptures, their messengers, their prophets and their faith’.","author":"Cal Sarwar","tags":["9-11","bible","christianity","crusade","crusades","cult","cults","faith","god","holy-spirit","iraq-war","islam","islamic-terrorism","israel","judaism","muhammad","muslim","palestine","pope-benedict-xvi","quran","religion","syria","taliban","torah"],"id":311771,"author_id":"Cal+Sarwar"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":5,"pages":1}}