34 ideas
7990 | Serene wisdom is freedom from ties, and indifference to fortune [Anon (Bhag)] |
7989 | Seek salvation in the wisdom of reason [Anon (Bhag)] |
23853 | Truth is not a object we love - it is the radiant manifestation of reality [Weil] |
23855 | Creation produced a network or web of determinations [Weil] |
7996 | I am all the beauty and goodness of things, says Krishna [Anon (Bhag)] |
7995 | In all living beings I am the light of consciousness, says Krishna [Anon (Bhag)] |
7999 | All actions come from: body, lower self, perception, means of action, or Fate [Anon (Bhag)] |
23848 | The aesthete's treatment of beauty as amusement is sacreligious; beauty should nourish [Weil] |
20444 | If paintings could be perfectly duplicated, it would be a multiple art form [Currie, by Bacharach] |
23854 | Beauty is the proof of what is good [Weil] |
7991 | Hate and lust have their roots in man's lower nature [Anon (Bhag)] |
23837 | Respect is our only obligation, which can only be expressed through deeds, not words [Weil] |
23844 | The most important human need is to have multiple roots [Weil] |
23838 | The need for order stands above all others, and is understood via the other needs [Weil] |
23836 | Obligations only bind individuals, not collectives [Weil] |
23840 | A citizen should be able to understand the whole of society [Weil] |
23843 | Even the poorest should feel collective ownership, and participation in grand display [Weil] |
23846 | Culture is an instrument for creating an ongoing succession of teachers [Weil] |
23839 | A lifelong head of society should only be a symbol, not a ruler [Weil] |
23842 | Party politics in a democracy can't avoid an anti-democratic party [Weil] |
23847 | Socialism tends to make a proletariat of the whole population [Weil] |
23845 | The capitalists neglect the people and the nation, and even their own interests [Weil] |
23841 | By making money the sole human measure, inequality has become universal [Weil] |
23835 | People have duties, and only have rights because of the obligations of others to them [Weil] |
23852 | To punish people we must ourselves be innocent - but that undermines the desire to punish [Weil] |
7988 | There is no greater good for a warrior than to fight in a just war [Anon (Bhag)] |
23850 | The soldier-civilian distinction should be abolished; every citizen is committed to a war [Weil] |
23851 | Education is essentially motivation [Weil] |
7992 | The visible forms of nature are earth, water, fire, air, ether; mind, reason, and the sense of 'I' [Anon (Bhag)] |
7994 | Everything, including the gods, comes from me, says Krishna [Anon (Bhag)] |
7993 | Brahman is supreme, Atman his spirit in man, and Karma is the force of creation [Anon (Bhag)] |
23849 | Religion should quietly suffuse all human life with its light [Weil] |
7997 | Only by love can men see me, know me, and come to me, says Krishna [Anon (Bhag)] |
7998 | The three gates of hell are lust, anger and greed [Anon (Bhag)] |