If you would listen, sir, in the sense of being aware of your conflicts and contradictions without forcing them into any particular pattern of thought, perhaps they might altogether cease.
How could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed to move their heads?
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Plato
The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
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John Berry
The Encyclopedia--the advance artillery of reason, the armada of philosophy, the siege engine of the enlightenment...
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Peter Prange
Philosophy cannot be extinguished, though men will try ... The spirit seeks the light, that is its nature. It wishes to return to its origin, and must forever try to reach enlightenment.
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Iain Pears
Enlightenment is not a goal to be attained, it is a state-of-being to be regained.
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Kim Chestney
More Quotes By Jiddu Krishnamurti
It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.
You can only be afraid of what you think you know.
We carry about us the burden of what thousands of people have said and the memories of all our misfortunes. To abandon all that is to be alone, and the mind that is alone is not only innocent but young -- not in time or...
Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.
Tell your friend that in his death, a part of you dies and goes with him. Wherever he goes, you also go. He will not be alone.
