Consider the Koran... this wretched book was sufficient to start a world-religion, to satisfy the metaphysical need of countless millions for twelve hundred years, to become the basis of their morality and of a remarkable contempt for death, and also to inspire them to bloody wars and the most extensive conquests. In this book we find the saddest and poorest form of theism. Much may be lost in translation, but I have not been able to discover in it one single idea of value.
If we suspect that a man is lying, we should pretend to believe him; for then he becomes bold and assured, lies more vigorously, and is unmasked.
Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are, by their very nature, highly uncertain, precarious, ephemeral and subject to chance.
Marrying means, to grasp blindfolded into a sack hoping to find out an eel out of an assembly of snakes.
Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.
Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.
To use many words to communicate few thoughts is everywhere the unmistakable sign of mediocrity. To gather much thought into few words stamps the man of genius.
Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.
To feel envy is human, to savour schadenfreude is devilish
Thus, the task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen, but to think what nobody yet has thought about that which everybody sees.
In the whole world there is no study so beneficial and so elevating as that of the Upanishads. It has been the solace of my life, it will be the solace of my death.
If anyone spends almost the whole day in reading...he gradually loses the capacity for thinking...This is the case with many learned persons; they have read themselves stupid
We will gradually become indifferent to what goes on in the minds of other people when we acquire a knowledge of the superficial nature of their thoughts, the narrowness of their views and of the number of their errors. Whoever attaches a lot of value to the opinions of others pays them too much honor.
To forgive and forget means to throw away dearly bought experience.
I know of no more beautiful prayer than that which the Hindus of old used in closing: May all that have life be delivered from suffering.
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
Genius and madness have something in common: both live in a world that is different from that which exists for everyone else.
The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.
After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
The Universe is a dream dreamed by a single dreamer where all the dream characters dream too.
Men are a thousand times more intent on becoming rich than on acquiring culture, though it is quite certain that what a man IS contributes more to his happiness than what he HAS.
We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.
Always to see the general in the particular is the very foundation of genius.
A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.
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