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Until we realize the unity of life, we live in fear
“Until we realize the unity of life, we live in fear.” – The Upanishads
03/11/2017
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1. Attractiveness and magnetism of man’s personality is the result of his inner radiance.
2. That which manifests the qualities of desire, hatred, energy, pleasure, pain, cognition, is called the soul.
3. “Until we realize the unity of life, we live in fear.” – The Upanishads
4. “Let the noble thoughts come to us from every side.” — Rigveda.
5. “God is present everywhere in this universe, people with divine wealth can find him.” — Rigveda 9.6.1
6. A wise man, does not swerve from the path of justice.
7. Lead me from unreal to real, from darkness to light and from death to immortality.
“The sun is a hot rock” and “Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen”.
– Anaxagoras
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Explore Quotes: To Remind Us To Keep On Seeing The World
“Explore, dream and explore.”
1. In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is right thing.The worst thing you can do is nothing.
—Theodore Roosevelt
2. Nothing will work unless you do.
— Maya Angelou
3. The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. …
4. Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
Albert Einstein
5. It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
-Aristotle
6. You have to be at your strongest when you’re feeling at your weakest
7. “You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”
— Martin Luther King Jr.
“The perfect time to begin is now. You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.”
— Zig Ziglar
10. “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
11. “To be, or not to be, that is the question.” — William Shakespeare
12. “That’s one small step for a man, a giant leap for mankind.” — Neil Armstrong
13. “I think, therefore I am” (Cogito, ergo sum) — René Descartes
14. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” — Lao Tzu
20 “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
— Nelson Mandela
21. “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”
— aristotle
“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
— aristotle
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
— Aristotle
“The energy of the mind is the essence of life.”
— Aristotle
“In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.”
— Aristotle
“Hope is a waking dream.”
— Aristotle
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
— Aristotle
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No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. – Eleanor Roosevelt
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“No human investigation can be called real science if it cannot be demonstrated mathematically.” — Democritus
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“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.”
— Albert Einstein
“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.” — Confucius
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“Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.” — Søren Kierkegaard
“The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach.” — Seneca
“Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar”
– William Wordsworth
Quotes by Ancient Philosophers >
“Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god, but a great rock, and the sun a hot rock”.
– Anaxagoras
Aristotle’s quotes >
“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
“All men by nature desire knowledge.”
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.”
“The whole is more than the sum of its parts.”
“Nature does nothing in vain.”
“No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.”
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
“Quality is not an act, it is a habit.”
“Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit.”
“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”
“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.”
“It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.”
“A friend to all is a friend to none.”
“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.”
“Man is a political being.”
Thales of Miletus Quotes >
“All things are from water and all things are resolved into water.”
“Water is the first principle of everything.”
“Wisdom begins in wonder.”
“Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.”
“Time is the wisest of all things that are; for it brings everything to light.”
“The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.”
“Place is the greatest thing, as it contains all things.”
“If there is a change, there must be some thing that changes, yet does not change.”
Pythagoras Quotes >
On Wisdom, Silence, and Words
“The oldest, shortest words — ‘yes’ and ‘no’ — are those which require the most thought”.
“Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few”.
“Silence is better than unmeaning words”.
“Learn to be silent. Let your quiet mind listen and absorb”.
“Wisdom thoroughly learned will never be forgotten”.
On Self-Mastery and Character
“No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself”.
“Above all things, reverence yourself”.
“Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body”.
“Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please”.
“In anger we should refrain both from speech and action”.
On Mathematics, Nature, and Soul
“All is number”.
“Number rules the universe”.
“There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres”.
“Souls never die, but always on quitting one abode pass to another”.
Epicurus Quotes >
“Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.”
“Not what we have, but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.”
“He who is not satisfied with a little, is satisfied with nothing.”
“Contentment is natural wealth; luxury is artificial poverty.”
“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not…”
“Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.”
“The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.”
“He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.”
“Of all the means which wisdom acquires to ensure happiness throughout the whole of life, by far the most important is friendship.”
“It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.”
“If you shape your life according to nature, you will never be poor; if according to people’s opinions, you will never be rich.”
“It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.”
“We cannot live pleasantly without living wisely and nobly and righteously.”
Democritus Quotes >
“Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion”.
“Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity”.
“By convention sweet is sweet, by convention bitter is bitter… But in reality there are atoms and the void”.
“I would rather discover one scientific fact than become King of Persia”.
“Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul”.
“Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong”.
“The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged”.
“By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich”.
“Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character”.
Heraclitus Quotes >
“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.”
“Everything flows and nothing remains.”
“The sun is new each day.”
“The way up and the way down are one and the same.”
“Opposition brings concord.”
“Couples are things whole and not whole, what is drawn together and what is drawn asunder, the harmonious and the dissonant. The one comes out of all things, and all things come out of the one.”
“This world… was ever a living fire, with measures of it kindling and measures going out.”
Plato Quotes >
“It is right to give every man his due.”
“All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance.”
“Love is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.”
“Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.”
“An unexamined life is not worth living”.
“Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance”.
“Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom”.
“Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something”.
Socrates Quotes >
“True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing” (often paraphrased as “I know that I know nothing”) – Highlights the importance of recognizing one’s limitations.
“Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder”.
Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued. …
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. …
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing. …
By all means, marry. …
“The unexamined life is not worth living” – Argues that reflection is essential to human existence.
“To find yourself, think for yourself”.
“Know thyself”.
“I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.”.
“There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance”.
“We cannot live better than in seeking to become better”.
“False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil”.
“One who is injured ought not to return the injury…” – Emphasizes moral integrity over revenge.
“He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature”.
“Beware the barrenness of a busy life”.
Anaxagoras Quotes >
“Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god, but a great rock, and the sun a hot rock”.
“The seed of everything is in everything else”.
– Quotes On Matter:
“The Greeks do not rightly use the terms coming into being and perishing. For nothing comes into being nor yet does anything perish, but there is mixture and separation of things that are”.
“All other things have a portion of everything, but Mind is infinite and self-ruled, and is mixed with nothing but is all alone by itself”.
Quotes On Reality:
“Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen” or “Appearances are but a glimpse of what is hidden”.
“There is no smallest among the small and no largest among the large, But always something still smaller and something still larger”.
“The descent to Hades is the same from every place”.
Swami Dayanand Quotes >
The person who receives the least and contributes the most is mature, because self-growth lies in living.
“Go Back to Vedas”
Ignorance is the root of evil, knowledge is the greatest friend, and true character stems from moral, selfless karma.
“Man’s greatest friend is knowledge and his greatest enemy is ignorance.”
“True knowledge is that which takes you from darkness to light.”
“The aim of education is not merely to get employment but to build character and gain self-knowledge.”
“It is not wrong to be ignorant, but it is wrong to remain ignorant.”
A value is valuable when the value of value is valuable to oneself
Wealth is a thing, earned with honesty and justice. Its opposite is the Mammon of unrighteousness.
“All men are equal in the eyes of God. There is no distinction of caste, creed, or color in the divine law of the Vedas”. – Swami Dayanand
Forgiving is not everyone’s cup of tea, because it makes a person very great.
– Swami Dayanand
Seneca Quotes >
“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it”.
“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality”.
The Power of Perception & Imagination: He argued that anxiety stems from imagining worst-case scenarios, not just real dangers.
Time and Mortality: Focused on the idea that life is not short, but we waste much of it.
Resilience and Trials: Viewed challenges as necessary to build character
“A gem cannot be polished without friction”.
True Happiness: Defined as enjoying the present without fear of the future.
Wealth and Desire: Emphasized that poverty is wanting more, not having little.
“He who is brave is free”.
“If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable”.
“He who fears death will never do anything worth of a man who is alive”.
“A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials”.
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Quotes from the vedas >
1. Good thoughts naturally culminates into good actions.
– Rigveda
“Let noble thoughts come to us from every side.”
– Rigveda 1.89.1
Who sees all beings in his own self and his own self in all beings, loses all fear. – Upanishad
Attractiveness and magnetism of man’s personality is the result of his inner radiance.
– Yajur Veda
Until we realize the unity of life, we live in fear. – Taittiriya Upanishad.
God is present everywhere in this universe, people with divine wealth can find him. – Rigveda 9.6.1
May the man protect the other on everyside. – Rigveda 6.75.14
The One who rules over all beings in the universe is God and called as Maheshwara. – Rigveda
“Through knowledge (Vidya) one obtains immortality.”
– Kenopanishad 2.4
“The Self is eternal and immutable. When the body dies, the Self does not die.” – Katha Upanishad
Wisdom quotes >
“The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.” …
“To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.” …
“Much learning does not teach understanding.” …
“The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger.”