Foundation
Enquiry
Philosophy begins in wonder. These passages concern the willingness to look again, to hold a question open, and to let understanding come in its own time.
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.
Thinking and being are the same.
We must close our eyes and invoke a new manner of seeing.
Our heart is restless until it rests in Thee.
Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.
All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.
To thine own self be true.
Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom.
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.
Read not to contradict and confute, but to weigh and consider.
The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
All men by nature desire to know.
Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.
I think, therefore I am.
Dare to know: have courage to use your own understanding.
To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.
He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened.
The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao.
Those who know do not speak; those who speak do not know.
From the unreal lead me to the real.
That thou art, O Svetaketu.
Who sees all beings in the Self, and the Self in all beings, hates none.
The Self is not known through study, nor through the intellect, nor through much hearing.
I am the Self seated in the hearts of all creatures.
Brahman is real; the world is appearance; the individual self is not other than Brahman.
A man's character is his fate.
I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
He who learns but does not think is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it is not the same river and he is not the same man.
It is through wonder that men now begin and originally began to philosophise.
The unexamined life is not worth living.