Work and pray, live on hay, you’ll get pie in the sky when you die.
Category Archive: 1879
There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.
Who am I? Not the body, because it is decaying; not the mind, because the brain will decay with the body; not the personality, nor the emotions, for these also will vanish with death.
You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.
Women of the working class, especially wage workers, should not have more than two children at most. The average working man can support no more and and the average working woman can take care of no more in decent fashion.
Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.
Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain – at least in a poor country like Russia – and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.
I am not the perishable body, but the eternal Self.
Revolutions are always verbose.
Doubts never end. If one doubt is removed, another takes its place. It is like removing the leaves of a tree one by one. Even if all the leaves are clipped off, new ones grow. The tree itself must be uprooted.