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- Hunting is now to most of us a game, whose relish seems based upon some mystic remembrance, in the blood, of ancient days when to…
- Philosophy is harmonized knowledge making a harmonious life; it is the self-discipline which lifts us to serenity and freedom. Knowledge is power, but only wisdom…
- India will teach us the tolerance and gentleness of mature mind, understanding spirit and a unifying, pacifying love for all human beings.
- India was the motherland of our race, and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages: she was the mother of our philosophy; mother, through the Arabs,…
- [H]istory assures us that civilizations decay quite leisurely.
- Friends are helpful not only because they will listen to us, but because they will laugh at us; Through them we learn a little objectivity,…
- History offers some consolation by reminding us that sin has flourished in every age.
- Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
- Cultivate your gardenÂ… Do not depend upon teachers to educate you Â… follow your own bent, pursue your curiosity bravely, express yourself, make your own…
- Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
- Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
- All that is good in our history is gathered in libraries. At this moment, Plato is down there at the library waiting for us. So…
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