A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate.
Date of birth: 1887-09-08
Date of death: 1963-07-14
Quotes number: 24
Nationality: Indian
Profession: Philosopher
No state on earth can afford to allow several authorities to co-exist next to one another.
Every time I listen back to solos of mine I'll hear something I like and then another phrase that I can't stand. You have to live with what you play. And the recording medium puts that on us. When I play live gigs I don't think so much like that.
I'd like President Bush to think maybe there's another way to think, that maybe Kissinger was wrong when he says we had to go in there because he was wrong about Vietnam.
Many of my e-mails have been maliciously taken out of context, another effort by those assaulting my career.
There are some circumstances in which the First Amendment interest comes up against another interest that is really important and in which we have to make a decision in a particular case as to which is more important.
John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student.
I'm really fascinated and you know I've been wondering about that usage of language, various breathing techniques and why in these practices language is being used in another way.
There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond eye.
There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
One man's transparency is another's humiliation.