The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name. |
The Bhagavad-Gita is the most systematic statement of spiritual evolution of endowing value to mankind. The Gita is one of the clearest and most comprehensive summaries of the spiritual thoughts ever to have been made. |
The brotherhood of men does not imply their equality. Families have their fools and their men of genius, their black sheep and their saints, their worldly successes and their worldly failures. A man should treat his brothers lovingly and with justice, according to the deserts of each. But the deserts of every brother are not the same. |
The business of a seer is to see; and if he involves himself in the kind of God-eclipsing activities which make seeing impossible, he betrays the trust which his fellows have tacitly placed in him. |
The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. |
The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. |
The Child who is being raised strictly by the book is probably a first edition. |
The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful -because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact. |
The course of every intellectual, is he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the nonintellectuals have never stirred |
The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything |
The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly |
The great end of life is not knowledge but action. |
The horror no less than the charm of real life consists precisely in the recurrent actualization of the inconceivable |
The inspiring talker produces zeal, whose intensity depends not on the rationality of what is said or the goodness of the cause that is being advocated, but solely on the propagandist's skill in using words in an exciting way |
The investigation of nature is an infinite pasture-ground where all may graze, and where the more bite, the longer the grass grows, the sweeter is its flavor, and the more it nourishes. |