Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery we are trying to solve.
What counts now are the value-less facts, the material and the rational. All else is regarded with condescension as being of only sentimental value.
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
I am heartened to find so much wit in you, that you’d give thought to consequences and choose your way with reason, not passion only.
A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
I don’t believe in taking right decisions. Take decisions and make them right.
What, therefore, is a government at its best? It is a government that “governs” least and instead finds ways to mobilise the energies of our people.
Worse than any severe mental illness, is the illness of bigotry.
All real philosophers have been artists in the realm of concepts.