Occupation: Philosopher Birth: August 15, 1872 Death: December 5, 1950
Live within; be not shaken by outward happenings..
Not only a truer knowledge, but a greater power comes to one in the quietude and silence of a mind that, instead of bubbling on the surface, can go t….
Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it till it is shattered by fresh genius..
The soul in man is greater than his fate..
When Reason died, then Wisdom was born..
When we have passed beyond knowings, then we shall have Knowledge..
Each victory gained over oneself means new strength to gain more victories..
When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence..
A quiet mind does not mean that there will be no thoughts or mental movements at all, but that these will be on the surface, and you will feel your t….
The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught..
Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind s….
Peace is the first condition, without which nothing else can be stable..
The ascent to the divine Life is the human journey, the Work of works, the acceptable Sacrifice. This alone is man's real business in the world and t….
An aimless life is always a troubled life. Every individual should have an aim. But do not forget that the quality of your aim will depend the qualit….
Faith is the soul's witness to something not yet manifested, achieved or realised, but which yet the Knower within us, even in the absence of all ind….
Evolution of consciousness is the central motive of terrestrial existence..
A great thing would be done if all these God-visions could embrace and cast themselves into each other; but intellectual dogma and cult egoism stand ….
Everyone has in him something divine, something his own, a chance of perfection and strength in however small a sphere which God offers him to take o….
In order to see, you have to stop being in the middle of the picture.
True knowledge is not attained by thinking. It is what you are; it is what you become..
The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself..