Occupation: Philosopher Birth: May 10, 1886 Death: September 6, 1950
The Tibetan missionaries in their mood of bright confidence disconcerted the imperial governments by laughing the new movement into frustration. For ….
The expansion of the whole cosmos was but the shrinkage of all its physical units and of the wavelengths of light..
Philosophy is an amazing tissue of really fine thinking and incredible, puerile mistakes. It's like one of those rubber 'bones' they give dogs to che….
It is better to be destroyed than to triumph in slaying the spirit... We die praising the universe in which at least such an achievement as ours can ….
He should avail himself of their resources in such ways as to advance the expression of the spirit in the life of mankind. He should use them so as t….
I see, indeed I know, that in some sense God is love, and God is wisdom, and God is creative action, yes and God is beauty; but what God actually is,….
In you, humanity is precarious; and so, in dread and in shame, you kill the animal in you. And its slaughter poisons you..
This kind of internal "telepathic" intercourse, which was to serve me in all my wanderings, was at first difficult, innefective, and painful. But in ….
In man, social intercourse has centred mainly on the process of absorbing fluid into the organism, but in the domestic dog and to a lesser extent amo….
In a sick world even the hale are sick..
To say that the cosmos was expanding is equally to say that its members were contracting. The ultimate centers of power, each at first coincident... ….
Great are the stars, and man is of no account to them. But man is a fair spirit, whom a star conceived and a star kills. He is greater than those bri….
[T]he individual in whom the will for the light is strong and clear finds his heart inextricably bound up with the struggle of the forces of light in….
A nation . . . is just a society for hating foreigners..
No visiting angel, or explorer from another planet, could have guessed that this bland orb [Earth] teemed with vermin, with world-mastering, self-tor….
Without Satan, with God only, how poor a universe, how trite a music!.
In that instant when I had seen... the Star Maker, I had glimpsed, in the very eye of that splendor, strange vistas of being; as though in the depths….
We have no government and no laws, if by law is meant a stereotyped convention supported by force, and not to be altered without the aid of cumbersom….
All this long human story, most passionate and tragic in the living, was but an unimportant, a seemingly barren and negligible effort, lasting only f….
Our outworn economic system dooms millions to frustration..
I loathe the urchin's cruelty to the cat, but I will not loathe the urchin. I loathe Hitler's mass-torturing, but not Hitler; and the money-man's hea….