Philosopher Quotes

Owing to ignorance of the rope the rope appears to be a snake; owing to ignorance of the Self the transient state arises of the individualized, limited, phenomenal aspect of the Self.
Sing the songs of joy to the Lord, serve the Name of the Lord, and become the servant of His servants.
That one plant should be sown and another be produced cannot happen; whatever seed is sown, a plant of that kind even comes forth.
The production of children, the nurture of those born, and the daily life of men, of these matters woman is visibly the cause.
Thou has a thousand eyes and yet not one eye; Thou host a thousand forms and yet not one form.
Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets.
Whatever be the qualities of the man with whom a woman is united according to the law, such qualities even she assumes, like a river, united with the ocean.
Whatever kind of seed is sown in a field, prepared in due season, a plant of that same kind, marked with the peculiar qualities of the seed, springs up in it.
Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.
Another occupation might have been better.
Eclecticism - every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct.
One said of suicide, As long as one has brains one should not blow them out. And another answered, But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.
The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one.
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