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I encounter millions of bodies in my life; of these millions, I may desire some hundreds; but of these hundreds, I love only one.
It is owing to our limitations that a thing appears to us as single and separate when in truth it is not a separate thing at all.
In order to approach a creation as sublime as the Bhagavad-Gita with full understanding it is necessary to attune our soul to it.
The essential and living elements in our architectural activities stem from what was implanted in us during Old Saturn evolution.
Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by actions.
Many men provoke others to overreach them by excessive suspicion; their extraordinary distrust in some sort justifies the deceit.
Leisure without literature is death, or rather the burial of a living man -Otium sine litteris mors est et hominis vivi sepultura
It is never right to do wrong or to requite wrong with wrong, or when we suffer evil to defend ourselves by doing evil in return.
I have lived long enough to learn how much there is I can really do without.... He is nearest to God who needs the fewest things.
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.
On the whole, the longing for solitude is a sign that there still is spirit in a person and is a measure of what spirit there is.
There are all kinds of people, and in the attempt to build up a solidarity among them, defects of each one affect all the others.
Can everybody contact the higher forces? No, not indeed; but they submit themselves to a discipline and this brings them success.
Get hold of the main thing: That the world and the self are one and perfect. Only your attitude is faulty and needs readjustment.
My technique is don’t believe anything. If you believe in something, you are automatically precluded from believing its opposite.
Animals are something invented by plants to move seeds around. An extremely yang solution to a peculiar problem which they faced.
It's our machines and our technologies that are now the major evolutionary forces acting upon us. It's not our political systems.
I'm not an advocate for everything that rolls out of the laboratory. I'm an advocate for things sanctioned by millennia of usage.
Television, while chemically non-invasive, nevertheless is every bit as addicting and physiologically damaging as any other drug.
What I think is going on is that probably language was entertainment long before it was meaning. It's a kind of tuneless singing.
Fine tuning the institutions built by powdered wig guys two hundred years ago is a long shot at holding the whole thing together.
The future holds no terrors for a person who knows how process inevitably unfolds. They are always right and with it each moment.
All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls!
Also, what mountains of dead ashes, wreck and burnt bones, does assiduous pedantry dig up from the past time and name it History.
From whence it follows, that were the publique and private interest are most closely united, there is the publique most advanced.
Utopians...consider individual freedom as the stumbling block on which the grandiose idea of mankind's totalization may flounder.
Creatures inveterately wrong in their inductions have a pathetic but praise-worthy tendency to die before reproducing their kind.
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world's life
Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.
No human being will ever know the Truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even known they had done so.
If you wish to see the thousand years, look at today; if you wish to understand the millionfold, then look at the one or the two.
There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men.
Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.
To have attained to the human form is a source of joy... What an incomparable bliss it is to undergo these countless transitions.
If you do not join the polluted, then you are pure; if you reject society in search of purity, that is not purity but fanaticism.
There is nothing more inspiring than having a mind unfold before you. Let people teach who have a calling. It is never just a job.
Man naturally desires, not only to be loved, but to be lovely; or to be that thing which is the natural and proper object of love.
The importation of gold and silver is not the principal, much less the sole benefit which a nation derives from its foreign trade.
You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.
For example, justice is considered to mean equality, It does mean equality- but equality for those who are equal, and not for all.
A friend is a second self, so that our consciousness of a friend's existence...makes us more fully conscious of our own existence.
If men think that a ruler is religious and has a reverence for the Gods, they are less afraid of suffering injustice at his hands.
The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.
Those who know the true use of money, and regulate the measure of wealth according to their needs, live contented with few things.
To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.
I make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge.
Things could not have been brought into being by God in any manner or in any order different from that which has in fact obtained.
Christ . . . said that a man who had looked after a woman lustfully had sinned as much as the man who had seduced her. How absurd!
Religion and Science are two aspects of social life, of which the former has been important as far back as we know anything of man