A good half of the effort of understanding what the Indian philosophers were after - and their subtleties make most of the great European philosophers look like schoolboys.

Quote by TS Eliot

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Fear is the tax which conscience pays to guilt

Fear is the tax which conscience pays to guilt

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

Think not forever of yourselves, O Chiefs, nor of your own generation. Think of continuing...

Think not forever of yourselves, O Chiefs, nor of your own generation. Think of continuing...

Human kind cannot bear much reality.

Human kind cannot bear much reality.

To approach the stranger is to invite the unexpected, release a new force, let the...

To approach the stranger is to invite the unexpected, release a new force, let the...

Where is wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost...

Where is wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost...

The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong...

The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong...

Where is the Life we have lost in living?

Where is the Life we have lost in living?

When we read of human beings behaving in certain ways, with the approval of the...

When we read of human beings behaving in certain ways, with the approval of the...

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.

For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.

We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be...

We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be...

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find...

There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find...

Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must...

Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must...

If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred...

If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred...

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons

LIFE: Love, Intelligence, Fun, Evolution in that order.

LIFE: Love, Intelligence, Fun, Evolution in that order.

Our personal consumer choices have ecological, social, and spiritual consequences. It is time to re-examine...

Our personal consumer choices have ecological, social, and spiritual consequences. It is time to re-examine...