The foundation of reverence is this perception, that the present holds within itself the complete sum of existence, backwards and forwards, that whole amplitude of time, which is eternity.
The foundations of the world are to be found, not in the cognitive experience of conscious thought, but in the aesthetic experience of everyday life.
In a certain sense, everything is everywhere at all times. For every location involves an aspect of itself in every other location. Thus every spatio-temporal standpoint mirrors the world
Great dreamers' dreams are never fulfilled, they are always transcended.
Philosophy asks the simple question: What is it all about?
An unflinching determination to take the whole evidence into account is the only method of preservation against the fluctuating extremes of fashionable opinion.
The vastest knowledge of today cannot transcend the buddhi of the Rishis in ancient India; and science in its most advanced stage now is closer to Vedanta than ever before.
When you're average, you're just as close to the bottom as you are the top.
In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.
You cannot be wise without some basis of knowledge, but you may easily acquire knowledge and remain bare of wisdom.
How the past perishes is how the future becomes.
In all education the main cause of failure is staleness.
I consider Christianity to be one of the great disasters of the human race... It would be impossible to imagine anything more un - Christianlike than theology.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
God is in the world, or nowhere, creating continually in us and around us. Insofar as man partakes of this creative process does he partake of the divine, of God, and that participation is his immortality.
No Roman ever died in contemplation over a geometrical diagram.
There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil.
In order to acquire learning, we must first shake ourselves free of it.
There is a tradition of opposition between adherents of induction and of deduction. In my view it would be just as sensible for the two ends of a worm to quarrel.
Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life.
Systems, scientific or philosophic, come and go. Each method of limited understanding is at length exhausted. In its prime each system is a triumphant success: in its decay it is an obstructive nuisance.
The oneness of the universe, and the oneness of each element of the universe, repeat themselves to the crack of doom in the creative advance from creature to creature, each creature including in itself the whole of history and exemplifying the self-identity of things and their mutual diversities.
I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't.
It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true.
Each human being is a more complex structure than any social system to which he belongs.
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