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.
Great dreamers' dreams are never fulfilled, they are always transcended.
Error is the price we pay for progress.
Vedanta is the most impressive metaphysics the human mind has conceived.
The difference between ancients and moderns is that the ancients asked what have we experienced, and moderns asked what can we experience.
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
When you're average, you're just as close to the bottom as you are the top.
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.
Philosophy asks the simple question: What is it all about?
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.
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.
You cannot be wise without some basis of knowledge, but you may easily acquire knowledge and remain bare of wisdom.
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.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
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.
No Roman ever died in contemplation over a geometrical diagram.
Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life.
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.
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.
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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