If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment. |
If words were invented to conceal thought, newspapers are a great improvement of a bad invention. |
If you are ready to leave father and mother, and brother and sister, and wife and child and friends, and never see them again, - if you have paid your debts and made your will, and settled all your affairs, and are a free man, then you are ready for |
If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things |
If you give money, spend yourself with it. |
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost, there is where they should be. Now put foundations under them. |
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see. |
If... the machine of government... is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. |
In eternity there is indeed something true and sublime. But all these times and places and occasions are now and here. God himself culminates in the present moment and will never be more divine in the lapse of the ages. Time is but a stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it, but when I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away but eternity remains. |
In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood. |
In my walks I would fain return to my senses |
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high. |
In the long run, men only hit what they aim at. |
In the love of narrow souls I make many short voyages but in vain - I find no sea room - but in great souls I sail before the wind without a watch, and never reach the shore. |
In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavad Gita in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seems puny |