wisdom

"Understanding the total impact of the patriarchy on the female experience is endlessly elusive. ... It is a constant process, perpetually blurred by the ebb and flow of so many epiphanies clouded by s…"

"A wise man once said, "never discuss philosophy or politics in a disco environment."

"It is very difficult to be wise ; it is not difficult to be wise occasionally and by chance, but it is difficult to be wise assiduously and by choice."

"Now, without directly altering the existing condition of things, it is possible to work upon the human mind and character, and give them a direction no more correspondent with that condition; and this…"

"A fool will seek revenge, the wise man will allow God's karma."

"Understanding finds nothing but itself when it seeks the essence behind the appearance of things. ‘It is manifest that behind the so-called curtain, which is to hide the inner world, there is nothing …"

"Why do people argue? Even the wisest of men have not found God through argument! Is God a subject for argument?"

"He that will write well in any tongue, must follow this counsel of Aristotle, to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do."

"Nothing will a man rue more than refusal to listen to the wise."

"It may be that to eat and be eaten are the same thing in the end. My wisdom tells me that this is probably so. We are all made of the same stuff, remember, we of the Jungle, you of the City. The same …"

"If I have my civil rights then this message wouldn't have happen ."

"Ideas must be put to the test. That's why we make things, otherwise they would be no more than ideas. There is often a huge difference between an idea and its realisation. I've had what I thought were…"

"If the new harmony glimpsed in the moments of insight is to be achieved, the old order of habits must be renounced. Moral intuitions result in a redemption of our loyalties and a remaking of our perso…"

"Things are not what they appear to be: nor are they otherwise."

"Oh, but they're so wise. They have one word for 'crisis' and 'opportunity'." Yes, but they also have one word for 'China' and 'Tibet' and it's 'China', so fuck them."

"If they have entered into the spirit if these rules, and if the rules have made sufficient impression on them to become rooted and established in their minds, they will feel how much difference there …"

"My religiosity consists in a humble admiration of the infinitely superior spirit that reveals itself in the little that we, with our weak and transitory understanding, can comprehend of reality. Moral…"

"In his short life of thirty-two years Shankara achieved that union of sage and saint, of wisdom and kindliness, which characterizes the loftiest type of man produced in India... There is much metaphys…"

"The lesson is clear: estimates of causes of death are warped by media coverage. The world in our heads is not a precise replica of reality; our expectations about the frequency of events are distorted…"

"Marriage as a community of interests unfailingly means the degradation of the interested parties, and it is the perfidy of the world's arrangements that no one, even if aware of it, can escape such de…"