The object of knowledge is what exists and its function to know about reality.
Never by hatred is hatred appeased, but it is appeased by kindness. This is an eternal truth.
The true laboratory is the mind, where behind illusions we uncover the laws of truth.
It is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home.
There's a reason you can learn from everything: you have basic wisdom, basic intelligence, and basic goodness.
The philosopher is in love with truth, that is, not with the changing world of sensation, which is the object of opinion, but with the unchanging reality which is the object of knowledge.
Voice is not just the sound that comes from your throat, but the feelings that come from your words.
Just like an ordinary guitar string, a fundamental string can vibrate in different modes. And it is these different modes of vibration of the string that are understood in string theory as being the different elementary particles.
What you do to-day that is worthwhile, inspires others to act at some future time.
Everybody said so. Far be it from me to assert that what everybody says must be true. Everybody is, often, as likely to be wrong as right.
When I find myself in times of trouble Mother Mary comes to me, speaking words of wisdom "Let it be".
And I think to myself what a wonderful world. Oh, yeah.
He who has a true idea, knows at that same time that he has a true idea, nor can he doubt concerning the truth of the thing.
One trait in the philosopher's character we can assume is his love of the knowledge that reveals eternal reality, the realm unaffected by change and decay.
The intelligent student, after studying vedic texts, is solely intent on acquiring wisdom and realization. He should discard the texts altogether, as the man who seeks rice discards the husk.
No one doubts but that we imagine time from the very fact that we imagine other bodies to be moved slower or faster or equally fast. We are accustomed to determine duration by the aid of some measure of motion.
'But surely "blind" is just how you would describe men who have no true knowledge of reality, and no clear standard in their mind to refer to, as a painter refers to his model, and which they can study closely before they start laying down rules about what is fair or right or good where they are needed, or maintaining, as Guardians, any rules that already exist. ' 'Yes, blind is just about what they are'
For a king, death is better than dethronement and exile.
Circumstances may accumulate so strongly even against an innocent man, that directed, sharpened, and pointed, they may slay him.
Life itself is neither a good nor an evil: life is where good or evil find a place, depending on how you make it for them.