Quotes About Wisdom

One must have some basis of experience on which to build an imagination.

La felicidad nunca tiene grandeza.

one is creeping into middle age and is less easily distracted by one's appetites, which have grown feebler, and by one's passions, which seem such a bore - all but the consuming desire for knowledge and understanding. That grows.

Porque son los detalles, como todo el mundo lo sabe, los que conducen a la virtud y a la felicidad, en tanto que las generalidades son intelectualmente consideradas como males necesarios.

He was a philosopher, if you know what that was.' 'A man who dreams of fewer things than there are in heaven and earth,' said the Savage promptly.

It is ignorance that causes us to identify ourselves with the body, the ego, the senses, or anything that is not the Atman. He is a wise man who overcomes this ignorance by devotion to the Atman.

Quizá la más grande lección de la historia es que nadie aprendió las lecciones de la historia

As for women, I am perpetually assuring myself that they're the broad highway to divinity

Era un consejo demasiado bueno como para que yo pudiera seguirlo.

The genius of life is to take the spirit of childhood into old age.

Sixty-two thousand four hundred repetitions make one truth.

He was a philosopher, if you know what that was.' 'A man who dreams of fewer things than there are in heaven and earth

that the purpose of life was not the maintenance of well-being, but some intensification and refining of consciousness, some enlargement of knowledge.

Do not strive to seek after the true," writes a Zen master, "only cease to cherish opinions.

Jefferson dijo: Si una nación espera ser ignorante y libre, espera algo que nunca fue ni nunca será...

Experientia docet ? Experientia doesn't.

The nature of things is such that the unitive knowledge of the Ground which is contingent upon the achievement of a total selflessness cannot possibly be realized, even with outside help, by those who are not yet selfless.

Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.

Il fatto che gli uomini non imparino molto dalla storia è la lezione più importante che la storia ci insegna

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

Living's much more difficult than Sanskrit or chemistry or economics.

Bu adam bir düÅŸünürdü,eÄŸer düÅŸünürün anlam?n? biliyorsan?z. VahÅŸi haz?rcevap bir biçimde Yeryüzü ve gökyüzündeki ÅŸeylerden daha az?n? hayal eden biri. dedi.

Aldous Huxley

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception