"The following of authority is the denial of……" — Jiddu Krishnamurti
"The following of authority is the denial of intelligence. [It] may help us temporarily to cover up our difficulties and problems; but to avoid a problem is only to intensify it, and in the process, self-knowledge and freedom are abandoned."
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Jiddu Krishnamurti
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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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It is much easier to condemn a child than to understand a child.
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The mind gives meaning to anything but the meaning it gives is meaningless.
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