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- We all carry it within us: supreme strength, the fullness of wisdom, unquenchable joy. It is never thwarted, and cannot be destroyed.
- First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community, it gets drawn…
- The object of pilgrimage is not rest and recreation – to get away from it all. To set out on a pilgrimage is to throw…
- Seen through the eyes of faith, religion's future is secure. As long as there are human beings, there will be religion for the sufficient reason…
- Ancient wisdom and quantum physicists make unlikely bedfellows: In quantum mechanics the observer determines (or even brings into being) what is observed, and so, too,…
- A nation can assume that the addition of the words "under God" to its pledge of allegiance gives evidence that its citizens actually believe in…
- ...conversation can be as mutually incomprehensible as foreign languages. We need the different and complementary perspectives of the various yogas - and ideally of all…
- A religion made up solely of heightened religious experiences would not be a religion at all. ...The major religious traditions address the mysteries (with or…
- In India there was a sense of time that does not tick with modern clocks, just as there is a knowledge that is not gained…
- All -isms end up in schisms.
- I am critical of modernity giving science and technology a blank check as if it were the fountain of all truth. That is not true.…
- Science is like a flashlight in the hands of people living in a huge balloon. They can illuminate anything in the balloon, but cannot shine…
- Swallow your pride and admit that we all need help at times.
- Science is empirical, all about physical senses that tell us about the world. But physical senses are not the only senses we have. Nobody has…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide