Osho · 208 pages
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“All that you call sin is nothing but mistakes. And mistakes are the way of learning. Those people who never commit mistakes are the most stupid people,”
― Osho, quote from Moral, Immoral, Amoral: What Is Right and What Is Wrong?
“A morality that comes with effort is immoral. A morality that comes without effort is the only morality there is.”
― Osho, quote from Moral, Immoral, Amoral: What Is Right and What Is Wrong?
“You cannot step in the same river twice,” because it is always flowing.”
― Osho, quote from Moral, Immoral, Amoral: What Is Right and What Is Wrong?
“Consciousness is yours. Conscience is given by the society.”
― Osho, quote from Moral, Immoral, Amoral: What Is Right and What Is Wrong?
“Cultivation means you will be creating something around yourself which you are not.”
― Osho, quote from Moral, Immoral, Amoral: What Is Right and What Is Wrong?
“Does he write to you? Never a line. Does he send you a message? Never a word. It is because he loves you, poor fool, and is trying to forget you, since you are not free to listen to him or to belong to him.”
― Kate Chopin, quote from The Awakening
“I don’t see any point in trying to equate one evil with another, or to assign some stupid scale of values. They’re both awful! Would”
― William Styron, quote from Sophie's Choice
“Socrates, whose mother was a midwife, used to say that his art was like the art of the midwife. She does not herself give birth to the child, but she is there to help during its delivery. Similarly, Socrates saw his task as helping people to 'give birth' to correct insight, since real understanding must come from within. . . . Everybody can grasp philosophical truths if they just use their innate reason.”
― Jostein Gaarder, quote from Sophie's World
“It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble. An animal perfectly in harmony with its environment is a perfect mechanism. Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no change and no need of change. Only those animals partake of intelligence that have a huge variety of needs and dangers.”
― H.G. Wells, quote from The Time Machine
“It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.”
― Donna Tartt, quote from The Secret History
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