It's not a question of learning much.On the contrary.It's a question of UNLEARNING much.
I mistrust the judgement of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.
I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact
Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
So whenever a Western seeker reaches to an understanding that ego is the problem, he can easily dissolve it, more easily than any Eastern seeker.
There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.
You don't want to lose your old friend - the misery - You have invested too much into false - Hence the fear to be exposed -to be true - to be naked as you are.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Dark and difficult times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.
When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.
There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.
The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.
Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.
To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.
He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to.
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.