Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
From all wild beasts, a child is the most difficult to handle.
Be kind. Every person you meet is fighting a difficult battle.
Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.
Virtue is a kind of health, beauty and good habit of the soul.
A blow from your friend is better than a kiss from your enemy.
Those alone are dear to Divinity who are hostile to injustice.
The world is out there, but descriptions of the world are not.
What sort of world can we prepare for our great grandchildren?
Taxation of earnings from labor is on a par with forced labor.
In science there are no 'depths'; there is surface everywhere.
When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
Leisure without study is death, and the grave of a living man.
The man who thinks only of his own generation is born for few.
Truths open to everyone, and the claims aren't all staked yet.
What-so-ever the mind has ordained for itself, it has achieved
...nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched.
There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
You will die not because you're ill, but because you're alive.
That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
He who tenders doubtful safety to those in trouble refuses it.
The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
Trifling trouble find utterance; deeply felt pangs are silent.
[A]nti-Semitism was rife in almost all varieties of socialism.
Beauty is a fruit which we look at without trying to seize it.
One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights.
Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.
Beauty comes first. Victory is secondary. What matters is joy.
The real danger in life is not death, but living an evil life.
Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
Dread is a sympathetic antipathy and an antipathetic sympathy.
Yes, it is difficult for man to cross beyond the idea of duty.
Your burden is of false self-identifications—abandon them all.
Suffering is a call for inquiry, all pain needs investigation.
All will come through, not a single soul (jiva) shall be lost.
All you can teach is understanding. The rest comes on its own.
Philosophizing is a process of making sense out of experience.
The problem is not to find the answer, it's to face the answer
Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness
Thinkers are not a welcome addition to most social situations.
The real nature of our predicament is completely opaque to us.
The message coming back at all of us is: live without closure.
I spend as many hours a day as I possibly can smoking cannabis
Necessity is the strongest of things, for it rules everything.
All work, even cotton-spinning, is noble; work is alone noble.
Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.
Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man
Hunger whets everything, especially Suspicion and Indignation.