The decision is your own voice, an opinion is the echo of someone else's voice.
Those who make conversations impossible, make escalation inevitable.
Health is hearty, health is harmony, health is happiness.
We awaken by asking the right questions. We awaken when we see knowledge being spread that goes against our own personal experiences. We awaken when we see popular opinion being wrong but accepted as being right, and what is right being pushed as being wrong. We awaken by seeking answers in corners that are not popular. And we awaken by turning on the light inside when everything outside feels dark.
True beauty is measured by the number of pearls within you, not those around your neck.
If thinking should precede acting, then acting must succeed thinking.
In your name, the family name is at last because it's the family name that lasts.
If one million of you give assent to the one thousand who participate in the murder of a child, then one million of you are a million times guilty.
No crime is a means to an end. No crime can be rationalized.
If one thousand of you participate in the murder of one child, then one thousand of you are a thousand times guilty.
Your comfort zone is a place where you keep yourself in a self-illusion and nothing can grow there but your potentiality can grow only when you can think and grow out of that zone.
I will tell you why I became a philosopher. I became a philosopher because I wanted to be able to talk about many, many things, ideally with knowledge, but sometimes not quite the amount of knowledge that I would need if I were to be a specialist in them. It allows you to be many different things. And plurality and complexity are very, very important to me.
Humankind has accumulated generation upon generation of knowledge, the culmination of which is the vast and useful technological array we see everywhere in modern society. Despite this great accumulation of knowledge and technology, we still suffer from starvation and war. The difference between the past and the present is the difference between throwing rocks and shooting missiles. We are still in conflict. Suffering on a fundamental level hasnβt ceased. But we nevertheless persist in the notion that if we just amass a bit more knowledge, weβll all be o.k. Maybe a new philosophy will do the trick, or a new system of government. But all of this has been tried many times. Knowledge builds on the past and has its place. Wisdom is beyond time. Itβs the direct perception of reality as it is. And in this direct seeing of what is lies the potential of transformationβa transformation that is not merely a redecoration of the past but a transformation of humanity that embodies the eternally new.