“It is dangerous and harmful to be guided in our life's course by hatreds and aversions, for they are wasteful of energy and limit and twist the mind and prevent it from perceiving truth.”— Jawaharlal Nehru, The Discovery of India (1946)Share
“Where freedom is menaced or justice threatened or where aggression takes place, we cannot be and shall not be neutral.”— Jawaharlal NehruShare
“The ambition of the greatest men of our generation has been to wipe every tear from every eye.”— Jawaharlal NehruShare
“In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth.”— Baruch SpinozaShare
“The young have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations.”— AristotleShare
“When Life does not find a singer to sing her heart she produces a philosopher to speak her mind.”— Khalil GibranShare
“You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.”— C.S. LewisShare
“The consciousness of life is higher than life, the knowledge of the laws of happiness is higher than happiness.”— Fyodor DostoevskyShare