Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
You who look at everything through your perpetually open eyes, is your lucidity never bathed in tears?
The state has physical power and uses it when necessary; the power of religion is love and beneficence
The man of Love follows the path of God-and shows affection to both the believer and the nonbe-liever.
A community receives light from its history, it becomes aware of itself by remembrance of its history.
According to the Dominant Western tradition, the natural world exists for the benefit of human beings.
You have told me, O God, to believe in hell. But you have forbidden me to think...of any man as damned
The reality of spirit-matter is inevitably translated into and confirmed by a structure of the spirit.
People too smart to get involved in politics are doomed to live in societies run by people who aren't.
To be curious about that which is not one's concern while still in ignorance of oneself is ridiculous.
A good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death, and his affairs are not neglected by the gods.
Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.
Let early education be a sort of amusement. You will then be better able to find out the natural bent.
The elements of instruction should be presented to the mind in childhood, but not with any compulsion.
God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
Practice justice in word and deed, and do not get in the habit of acting thoughtlessly about anything.
To cognize the Divine Essence - this is the highest purpose of soul, sent by the Creator to the Earth!
The University of Timbuktu never existed. The only thing that existed in Timbuktu was a small mud hut.
An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?
I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
Variant: When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
We will destroy laughing, we will set fires laughing, we will kill laughing... and society will fall!!
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
Refrain from following the example of those whose craving is for attention, not their own improvement.
There are no greater wretches in the world than many of those whom people in general take to be happy.
Freedom can't be bought for nothing. If you hold her precious, you must hold all else of little worth.
A work of art has an author and yet, when it is perfect, it has something which is anonymous about it.
Who dares to strike today, when having the security of a permanent job is itself becoming a privilege?
Marry a good woman, and be happy the rest of your life. Or, marry a bad, and become a good philosopher
God creates everything out of nothing. And everything which God is to use, he first reduces to nothing
Sin and virtue are a game of resistance we play with God in His efforts to draw us towards perfection.
Spirituality is indeed the master-key of the Indian mind; the sense of the infinitive is native to it.
Man's freedom is relative and it cannot be held solely responsible for the imperfection of his nature.
Spirituality is indeed the master key of the Indian mind; the sense of the infinitive is native to it.
You are already perfect, only you don't know it. Learn to know yourself and you will discover wonders.
Real thinking is possible only in the light of genuine language, no matter how limited, how primitive.
Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.
The word 'self' is as great a mystery as the word 'other'. It's just a polarity between two mysteries.
Language is something that springs from the biological matrix, and the neurological matrix, within us.
The psychedelic sets you at the beginning of the path, and then people do all kinds of things with it.
Man makes circumstances, and spiritually as well as economically, is the artificer of his own fortune.
The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.
A background of wrath, which can be stirred up to the murderous infernal pitch, does lie in every man.
There is but one temple in this Universe: The Body. We speak to God whenever we lay our hands upon it.
The Enemy has been here in the night of our natural ignorance, and sown the tares of spiritual errors.
Unlike art which contains a message, wine conveys nothing, it has no intellectual or cognitive content
It is only with total humility, and in absolute stillness of mind that we can know what indeed we are.
We must not just patch and tinker with life. We must keep renewing it. Embrace novelty and uniqueness.
If the impulse to daring and bravery is too fierce and violent, stay it with guidance and instruction.
The fish trap exists because of the fish: once you have gotten the meanings, you can forget the words.
The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful.