A world without poetry and art would be too much like one without birds or flowers: bearable but a lot less enjoyable.

It often occurs that pride and selfishness are muddled with strength and independence. They are neither equal nor similar; in fact, they are polar opposites. A coward may be so cowardly that he masks his...

For the first time after so many years I come back to cry aloud in the desert. Because this is the mission of the intellectual who is truly a prophet—to cry in the desert. The...

Every man in the world is either a Realist or a Nominalist. Give yourself a test: if someone called you a gigger or a fell-picker, and you knew it wasn’t true, would you hit him...

Each pregnant Oak ten thousand acorns formsProfusely scatter’d by autumnal storms;Ten thousand seeds each pregnant poppy shedsProfusely scatter’d from its waving heads;The countless Aphides, prolific tribe,With greedy trunks the honey’d sap imbibe;Swarm on each leaf...

The theological perspective of participation actually saves the appearances by exceeding them. It recognizes that materialism and spiritualism are false alternatives, since if there is only finite matter there is not even that, and that...

Time is what keeps things from happening all at once.

Manlius … took care in his invitations, actively sought to exclude from his circle crude and vulgar men like Caius Valerius. But they were all around; it was Manlius who lived in a dream world,...

Life is an essay you yourself have to write, start to finish.

There are patterns in everything, in the whole of Nature, from the way the stars turn in the heavens to the whorl of a shell or the petals of a flower and the way leaves...

Focus on peace not on war.Love, live, share and care.

When you draw something it lives and when you photograph it it dies

To take, for example, my own death: what I consider most likely to be true is that death will be the complete and utter end of my existence, with no successor existence of any kind...

We are the future; we are your children.We will make this world a peaceful garden.

Love happens only once, what happens after that is just compromise; with your heart and with your life…

The notion that capital – as an infinitely ramified system of exploitation, an abstract, intangible but overpowering logic, a process without a subject or a subject without a face – poses formidable obstacles to its...

Illusion is a false perception but delusion is a fixed false belief.

Ideas are the source of all things

Every form of happiness if one, every desire is driven by the same motor–by our love for a single value, for the highest potentiality of our own existence–and every achievement is an expression of it.

Create memories every day. Enjoy every moment every way.

This is the secret of life: the self lives only by dying, finds its identity (and its happiness) only by self-forgetfulness, self-giving, self-sacrifice, and agape love.

So you think money is the root of all evil? Have you ever asked what is the root of money? Money is a tool of exchange, which can’t exist unless there are goods produced and...

You are the creator of your thoughts, thoughts create your actions, and actions create you.

It can be deeply frustrating when people disagree with you, especially when it is so many of them. It might make you feel slighted, or even isolated. But instead of declaring everyone to be stupid,...

I cannot compromise my respect for your love. You can keep your love, I will keep my respect.

The first duty of a man is to love himself. When someone loves himself, he is loving the universe. This universe is existing because of you.

How would it alter Juliet’s love perception to learn the sea is but a rounded jug of water? Would her sensuous analogy turned simple simile unveil to her the limits of herself? Or would she...

At all times an empire is more important than emperor and empress, prince and princess.

Love, kindness, compassion and forgiveness are divine.

It is not possible to be original by trying to be original – those who attempt this in the arts will be merely avant-garde. Originality is the product of an impulse to intense and overwhelming...

In politics, the pen is at its heaviest because it is weighed down by the collective responsibility it holds towards its people and their future in the eyes of the world.

When you love and it hurt, love more and love without expectation.

Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.

You don’t need to wish harder, you need to work harder.

My strength is my power of love, my weakness is my kindness for those who suffers.

Before you hate something you should try to understand it.

After I leave the earth my work is anyway going to belong to the world for centuries but till that time I want to work freely.

Love is a light; it brightens the way of life.

My personal philosophy is, you can be sure of nothing.

Your right actions might hurt someone, so if required apologize for your right actions, but don’t stop taking right actions.

We usually live our lives with the belief that “I sacrifice myself for everyone else,” rather than thinking that “everyone else helps me.

Coastal people never really know what the ocean symbolizes to landlocked inland people—what a great distant dream it is, present but unseen in the deepest levels of subconsciousness, and when they arrive at the ocean...

You will have relatively less problems to solve, if you don’t confuse problems with inconveniences.

We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged

Certainty a strange Ferris wheel of a statement!

I speak less because my words are precious and my advices are priceless.

Everyone is longing for love, everyone is suffering from the needs and wants, so be loving, kind, and compassionate to everyone.

Atheism is not a philosophy; it is not even a view of the world; it is simply an admission of the obvious. In fact, ‘atheism’ is a term that should not even exist. No one...

The most dangerous irony is, people are angry with others because of their own incompetence.

Reason is powerless when we express love with empathy and kindness.