Destination is, ideally, where one should stop; and ideally, one should not stop. Practically, destination of a great man is where he wants to stop; of a common man, where he has to. The one ends with...
Rules are where there is a lack. They are to make up the deficiency, explicit or implicit. The system of existence, being complete in itself, is in no need to follow any of them. The appearance of dis...
Philosophy is an infertile hybrid. Life is a prolific hermaphrodite.
Falsehood of a good man is better than truth of a bad one.
Knowledge cannot be maintained without character.
Man is slave of emotions when they arise, and master of them when they don't.
Gratitude is an overflow of the pleasure filling your soul.
Religion is not what appears. It's what guides the appearance. There is an appearance of everything. But the appearance doesn't always have something behind it.
One only knows the sins of democracy against virtue when one is worthy enough to suffer from them.
Artist is not human, but humanity.
If philosophy has to serve some really noble purpose, it must be more observant than critical towards life.
Comparison is the most abused intellectual tool of all. We compare men and women, man and God, good and bad, equal and unequal, forgetting that this sin only results in a punishment so severe that we...
Logic is a mere iceberg in the Mediterranean of wisdom.
Religion and philosophy have different logics, speak different languages. Their logics are mutually exclusive, languages sometimes overlapping. It is hard to find something really common in them. I th...
Intellect is limited, but it has one great merit; it can recognise its limits!
Innocence is the most intelligent admission of stupidity.
Our desires are guided by what we believe to be good or bad; our beliefs are directed by our knowledge; our knowledge, in turn, is again a manipulation of our desires. Our Will, during this inexorable...
The intelligent talk and the wise listen.
World is so full of idiots that you can't even imagine to escape. The only solution is isolation. But it still spares one!
The only satisfactory thing about death is that our knowledge about it is unsatisfactory.
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