"One must know oneself as one is, not……" — Jiddu Krishnamurti
"One must know oneself as one is, not as one wishes to be, which is merely an ideal and therefore fictitious, unreal; it is only that which is that can be transformed, not that which you wish to be."
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473 Quotes by Jiddu Krishnamurti
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When the mind goes beyond the thought of 'the me,' the experiencer, the observer, the thinker, then there is a…
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When inquiry is suppressed by previous knowledge, or by the authority and experience of another, then learning becomes mere imitation,…
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Without freedom, there is no creation.
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As we are concerned with what others think of us, so we are anxious to know all about them; and…
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Now, is it possible not to be hurt at all? Because the consequences of being hurt are the building of…
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To know yourself you need not go to any book, to any priest, to any psychologist. The whole treasure is…
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It is much easier to condemn a child than to understand a child.
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Thought comes to an end. Then there is that sense of absolute silence in the brain. All the movement of…
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Tradition, long conditioned thinking, can bring about a fixation, a concept that one readily accepts, perhaps not with a great…
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Violence is not merely killing another. It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture…
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The mind gives meaning to anything but the meaning it gives is meaningless.
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In awareness there is no becoming, there is no end to be gained. There is silent observation without choice and…
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An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and…
— Russell Baker
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The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.
— Frederic Bastiat
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It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either…
— Samuel Johnson
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The characters and events depicted in the damn bible are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is…
— James Madison
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Painting, like any art, comprises a technique, a workmanlike handling of material, but the accuracy of a tone and the…
— Paul Cezanne
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The phenomenon is something real and not visionary or fictitious. There are objects approximating the shape of a disc, some…
— Nathan Farragut Twining
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The law is this: that each of our leading conceptions-each branch of our knowledge-passes successively through three different theoretical conditions:…
— Auguste Comte
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The men in this book are fictitious characters but their counterparts can be found in cockpits all over the world.…
— Ernest K. Gann
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This 'flying saucer' situation is not at all imaginary or seeing too much in some natural phenomena. Something is really…
— Nathan Farragut Twining
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None but the most blindly credulous will imagine the characters and events in this story to be anything but fictitious.…
— Unknown Author
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The preponderance of pain over pleasure is the cause of our fictitious morality and religion.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The events inspired characters that truly existed, as well as fictitious people I had to invent. Sometimes the harsh reality…
— Unknown Author
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