Occupation: Author Birth: May 7, 1861 Death: August 7, 1941
Those who in this world have the courage to try and solve in their own lives new problems of life, are the ones who raise society to greatness..
The greed for fruit misses the flower..
The touch of an infinite mystery passes over the trivial and the familiar, making it break out into ineffable music... The trees, the stars, and the ….
The earth paints a portrait of the sun at dawn with sunflowers in bloom. Unhappy with the portrait, she erases it and paints it again and again..
He only has freedom who ideally loves freedom himself and is glad to extend it to others. He who cares to have slaves must chain himself to them. He ….
Languages are jealous sovereigns, and passports are rarely allowed for travellers to cross their strictly guarded borders..
Man is a rough-hewn and woman a finished product..
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom..
And, indeed, what little of beauty and peace is to be found in the societies of men is owing to the daily performance of small duties, not to big doi….
Whatever character our theology may ascribe to him, in reality God is the infinite ideal of Man, towards whom men move in their collective growth, wi….
The tragedy of human life consists in our vain attempts to stretch the limits of things which can never become unlimited, to reach the infinite by ab….
Those who own much have much to fear..
We try to realize the essential unity of the world with the conscious soul of man; we learn to perceive the unity held together by the one Eternal Sp….
A teacher can never truly teach unless he is still learning himself. A lamp can never light another lamp unless it continues to burn its own flame. T….
YOU are the big drop of dew under the lotus leaf, I am the smaller one on its upper side,' said the dewdrop to the lake..
Plunge into the deep without fear, with the gladness of April in your heart..
For the current of our spiritual life creeds, rituals and channels that may thwart or help, according to their fixity or openness. When a symbol or s….
Memory, the priestess, kills the present and offers its heart to the shrine of the dead past..
God seeks comrades and claims love, The devil seeks slaves and claims obedience..
In desperate hope I go and search for her in all the corners of my house. I find her not. My house is small and what once has gone from it can never ….
On each race is laid the duty to keep alight its own lamp of mind as its part in the illumination of the world. To break the lamp of any people into ….