11.08.2007

I like this...

The greatest achievement is selflessness.
The greatest worth is self-mastery.
The greatest quality is seeking to serve others.
The greatest precept is continual awareness.
The greatest medicine is the emptiness of everything.
The greatest action is not conforming with the worlds ways.
The greatest magic is transmuting the passions.
The greatest generosity is non-attachment.
The greatest goodness is a peaceful mind.
The greatest patience is humility.
The greatest effort is not concerned with results.
The greatest meditation is a mind that lets go.
The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances.
Atisha


11.02.2007

Aja Tat


Some of my recently discovered favorite philosophical quotes...

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. - Nietzsche

Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away. - Anaxagoras

Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage. - Sri Aurobindo

Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books. - Gaston Bachelard

There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world. - Nikolai Berdyaev

Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the shouting of crowds, nor by arguments of unbridled passion, nor by the hatred of class against class. - Annie Besant

Nothing is miserable unless you think it is so. - Boethius

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened. - Albert Camus