Life always involves some logic in its manifestations, and logic, as a rule, excludes the versatility of life from its considerations.

A good teacher does something more than teaching; he makes you start learning.

Colours are nature gone wild.

The most crucial problem with intellectual learning is that it receives the unknown on the grounds of the known.

I’d love to be what I have been.

The sense of alienation that inspires wonder, awe and fear in us is enough of a proof that life does not belong to the planet Earth.

Knowledge is not discovery, but recognition.

Truth and reality are two different things. Truth is nothing more or less than an expression of reality as you perceive it, while reality being something totally independent of, and indifferent to how you express,...

Whenever we think, we construct a world that is centred upon the object of our thinking; whenever we act, we reconstruct a world that is centred upon ourselves.

Gratitude is an overflow of the pleasure filling your soul.

Innocence is the most intelligent admission of stupidity.

It’s not in the life, it’s in the living.

Do not judge a man by where he stands, but how he reached there.

What,” “how,” “when,” etc are all questions more or less common to religion and philosophy. But to ask “why” is a transgression in religion, and this inquiry has undoubtedly taken the heaviest tolls on intellect.

Love, endure, persist… Everything will return to you, innocent fool!

Children are prophets of nature.

Learn, or you’ll be made to learn.

We know the value of a blessing when we don’t have it. But we only know the value of knowledge when we have enough of it.

An egoist is always intelligent, never wise.

One mistake cannot justify another.

The most ridiculous activity of human mind is questioning. Cognition of reality surpasses both question and answer, however ingenious.

Culture has little to do with how refined a man’s intellect is; it rather depends on the refinement of his emotions.

Gratitude makes blessings permanent.

The problem with the world is that everyone does not have a brain, but everyone does have a tongue.

It’s not that people don’t know when they’ll die. It’s that they don’t seem to know they’ll die.

Better exert power than justify it!

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...

Intellect is limited, but it has one great merit; it can recognise its limits!

We do wrong because people do it, never realizing that we are the people.

Judge, criticize, object before you decide to believe something; but once you believe, you’re but an idiot if you need to be scrupulous any more.

Don’t call me an egoist.; let an egoist name me so!

Time is conscience of the universe.

Conquer yourself; the world is you!

The most brutal avenger on earth is a reality you ignored, however minor.

Everyone knows that evil should be avoided wherever possible; few actually know where it is possible.

One only knows the sins of democracy against virtue when one is worthy enough to suffer from them.

Every cure for nostalgia is obsolete.

That which is worth telling is not worth having.

Present, rather than past, is the mother of future. So, your future must take after your present. But if it resembles more your past, the granny must be a slut!

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...

Love is not an idea, not a feeling, not a sensation, not a sentiment, not a passion, not even an emotion. It is becoming and being not… Ultimate nothingness! Complete self-annihilation!

Ignorance binds people tighter than culture.

The greatest tragedy with a sceptic is that he cannot consign himself to truth, however he may see it.

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.

If philosophy has to serve some really noble purpose, it must be more observant than critical towards life.

Runner up is champion of the losers.

When sceptical about reality, man tends to believe the absurd.

An apparent misfortune of man is that neither good nor evil is an agency itself; both are equally passive choices. Man himself is the ultimate agency. He has the power to realize and activate the...

Limits are always extended, never broken.

Never congratulate a doctor for the fast recovery of a patient.