Items tagged as 'Enlightenment'

Items tagged as 'Enlightenment'

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In youth we feel richer for every new illusion; in maturer years, for every one we lose.
We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice - that is, until we have stopped saying 'It got lost,' and say, 'I lost it.
Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.
It is not life and wealth and power that enslave men, but the cleaving to life and wealth and power.
Many are concerned about the monuments of the West and the East- to know who built them. For my part, I should like to know who in those days did not build them- who were above such trifling.
Solitude has but one disadvantage; it is apt to give one too high an opinion of one's self. In the world we are sure to be often reminded of every known or supposed defect we may have.
Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
Qué hay en una estrella? Nosotros mismos. Todos los elementos de nuestro cuerpo y del planeta estuvieron en las entrañas de una estrella. Somos polvo de estrellas.
An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.
Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.
Humans think they are smarter than dolphins because we build cars and buildings and start wars etc., and all that dolphins do is swim in the water, eat fish and play around. Dolphins believe that they
Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to
You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.
It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilisation.
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
Don't surrender your loneliness / So quickly. / Let it cut more deeply. / Let it ferment and season you / As few human / Or even divine ingredients can.
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
Those things which strike the sense outweigh things which, although they be more important, do not strike it directly. Hence, contemplation usually ceases with seeing.
There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.
Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of p
Do not condemn the judgment of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
The highest result of education is tolerance.
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it for anyone else.
When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with.
When I feed the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor are hungry, they call me a communist.
As we believe simplicity contributes to a peaceful life, we have not bought into the utopia promised by consumerism.
Conscience is a man's compass, and though the needle sometimes deviates, though one often perceives irregularities when directing one's course by it, one must still try to follow its direction.
You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.
While fame impedes and constricts, obscurity wraps about a man like a mist; obscurity is dark, ample, and free; obscurity lets the mind take its way unimpeded. Over the obscure man is poured the merci
For all our conceits about being the center of the universe, we live in a routine planet of a humdrum star stuck away in an obscure corner ... on an unexceptional galaxy which is one of about 100 bill
You only have power over people so long as you don’t take everything away from them. But when you’ve robbed a man of everything, he’s no longer in your power – he’s free again.
The lust for comfort murders the passions of the soul.
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.
No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly; and this self-deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of the mind.
I'm sure that someday children in schools will study the history of the men who made war as you study an absurdity. They'll be shocked, just as today we're shocked with cannibalism.

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