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| So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable. | | Uncategorized | |
| Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers. | | Uncategorized | |
| Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hall-mark of true science. | | Uncategorized | |
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| Such prosperity as we have known up to the present is the consequence of rapidly spending the planet's irreplaceable capital | | Uncategorized | |
| Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. | | Uncategorized | |
| Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons | | Words | |
| That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent | | Men | |
| That is the secret of happiness and virtue - liking what you´ve got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny. | | Uncategorized | |
| That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that History has to teach | | History | |
| That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep. | | Uncategorized | |
| The amelioration of the world cannot be achieved by sacrifices in moments of crisis; it depends on the efforts made and constantly repeated during the humdrum, uninspiring periods, which separate one crisis from another, and of which normal lives mainly consist. | | Uncategorized | |
| The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name. | | Uncategorized | |
| The Bhagavad-Gita is the most systematic statement of spiritual evolution of endowing value to mankind. The Gita is one of the clearest and most comprehensive summaries of the spiritual thoughts ever to have been made. | | Philosophy | |
| The brotherhood of men does not imply their equality. Families have their fools and their men of genius, their black sheep and their saints, their worldly successes and their worldly failures. A man should treat his brothers lovingly and with justice, according to the deserts of each. But the deserts of every brother are not the same. | | Uncategorized | |
| The business of a seer is to see; and if he involves himself in the kind of God-eclipsing activities which make seeing impossible, he betrays the trust which his fellows have tacitly placed in him. | | Uncategorized | |
| The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. | | Equality; History | |
| The Child who is being raised strictly by the book is probably a first edition. | | Uncategorized | |
| The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful -because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact. | | Uncategorized | |
| The course of every intellectual, is he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the nonintellectuals have never stirred | | Uncategorized | |
