Subtle Quotes

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The ego is a subtle wall around you. It does not allow anybody to enter into you. You feel protected, secure, but this security is… — Rajneesh
Remember, character is not of much value. What is valuable is consciousness - not conscience but consciousness. Conscience is created by the society. The more… — Rajneesh
As you become more conscious of your cruelty, of your violence, gross and subtle, you start becoming more and more compassionate. Not that you cultivate… — Rajneesh
My sister and I, you will recollect, were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two souls which are so closely… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Violence is not merely killing another. It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
There is no violent surface indication of the ecstasy which great thinkers alone enjoy. There is nothing dramatic about it, but there is some subtle… — Walter Russell
The contradictory experiments of chemists leave us at liberty to conclude what we please. My conclusion is, that art has not yet invented sufficient aids… — Thomas Jefferson
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. — Francis Bacon
Science and mathematics [are] much more compelling and exciting than the doctrines of pseudoscience, whose practitioners were condemned as early as the fifth century B.C.… — Carl Sagan
A discovery is like falling in love and reaching the top of a mountain after a hard climb all in one, an ecstasy not induced… — Max Perutz
Perspective is a most subtle discovery in mathematical studies, for by means of lines it causes to appear distant that which is near, and large… — Leonardo da Vinci
Devote the mind to confusion and we know only too well, if weÂ´re honest, that it will become a dark master of confusion, adept in… — Sogyal Rinpoche
Mind is elusive, you cannot hold it in your hand. You cannot force it into a test-tube. The only way to know it is to… — Rajneesh
Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of… — Sun Tzu
Each child is poisoned by the society through teaching him ambition. Ambition is a poison far more dangerous than any alcohol can ever be, far… — Rajneesh
If meditation is going rightly, deep, you will feel transformed throughout the whole day. A subtle contentment will be present every moment. With whatsoever you… — Rajneesh
Will power is nothing but another name of ego power. A man of wisdom has no will, just as he has no mind - because… — Rajneesh
The path of self-purification is hard and steep. One has to become absolutely passion-free in thought, speech and action to rise above the opposing currents… — Mahatma Gandhi
Everybody is born with the capacity to enjoy, but not with the art. People think just because they are alive and they breathe and they… — Rajneesh
There is nothing in the animal world, to my mind, more delightful than grown cats at play. They are so swift and light and graceful,… — Monica Edwards

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