People Quotes by Jiddu Krishnamurti

Most people like to live in illusions.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

You cannot say that all experience is of equal value for all people.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

There is hope in people, not in society, not in systems, but in you and me.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

The government that is wise will consider what is best for all its people.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

When you identify yourself with a group of people or a set of ideas, aren't you separating yourself?

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Most people are unhappy; and they are unhappy because there is no love in their hearts.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

If people are foolish, they are bound to mix the personality and the Truth, and to build a temple around the personality…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

When you do not name a group of people, you are compelled to look at each individual face and not treat them…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

It does not in the least concern me whether I shall have at the end of my life thirty people who understand…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Love is the most practical thing in the world. To love, to be kind, not to be greedy, not to be ambitious,…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Sir, when two people have the extraordinary quality of this state, words are not necessary. Where that quality of love exists, words…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

My chief concern is to make clear the Truth which I have attained, to give an understanding of the Truth, which is…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

And it is impossible to treat human beings as human beings if you label them, if you term them, if you give…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

If you die to everything you know,including your family,yourmemory,everything you have felt,then death is a purification,a rejuvenating process;then death brings innocence and…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

I have only one purpose: to make people free, to urge them towards freedom, to help them to break away from all…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

People must work things out for themselves. It is no good saying, "I have found a house which suits me and therefore…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

While one is young is the time to investigate, to experiment with everything. The school should help its young people to discover…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Understanding of the self only arises in relationship, in watching yourself in relationship to people, ideas, and things; to trees, the earth,…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

There are laws in some countries, I believe, which prohibit anyone from following you in the street, and if someone does, he…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Awareness is that state of mind which takes in everything-the crows flying across the sky, the flowers on the trees, the people…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

...it is important to understand, not intellectually but actually in your daily life, how you have built images about your wife, your…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

It is utterly and irrevocably possible to empty all hurts and, therefore, to love, to have compassion. To have compassion means to…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

In our relationship with children and young people, we are not dealing with mechanical devices that can be quickly repaired, but with…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

We are second-hand people. We have lived on what we have been told, either guided by our inclinations, our tendencies, or compelled…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

And for this you must have quiet and solitude. But society does not allow you to have them. You must be with…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. Truth, being…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

The description is not the described; I can describe the mountain, but the description is not the mountain, and if you are…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

If people who say they love their children meant it, would there be war? And would there be division of nationalities -…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Clever people, people who are cunning, do not know what love is because their minds are so sharp, because they are so…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Have you ever sat very quietly with closed eyes and watched the movement of your own thinking? Have you watched your mind…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

When I said that I am the Buddha, the Christ, the Lord Maitreya, and more, it was not a question of superiority…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti