Wisdom

We can never know more than the mind can assimilate and process, nor can we discuss any aspect of the world for which there is no language.

To become truly human,one has to try an release oneself from the shackles of race,religion and nationality.The quantum of humanism one acquires is inevitably filtered when one limits oneself.'-Ashoka Jahnavi Prasad(Kant Lecture,20090).

The music of revelation announces itself to the reader in somber brooding tones or in melodies light as air and one is invited to dance with the most captivating of partners: poetry.

Once you read something, you can't erase it from your brain.

Don’t speak of action [effect]. Don’t serve the action [effect]. It is a result. But serve the causes [do the causes]. Nothing will be achieved unless you serve the cause.

You are young. So you know everything. You leap into the boat and begin rowing. But, listen to me. Without fanfare, without embarrassment, without doubt,I talk directly to your soul. Listen to me.

The future is too interesting and dangerous to be entrusted to any predictable, reliable agency. We need all the fallibility we can get. Most of all, we need to preserve the absolute unpredictability and total improbability of our connected minds. That way we can keep open all the options, as we have in the past.

As we know from the study of history, no new system can impose itself upon a previous one without incorporating many of the elements to be found in the latter...

We create a better world with beautiful deeds.

In the age of ideologies, we must make up our minds about murder. If murder has rational foundations, then our period and we ourselves have significance. If it has no such foundations, then we are plunged into madness there is no way out except to find some significance or to desist.

First Cosmic Seal:(Devic Seal 333) One who has received this Cosmic Seal is empowered to control not less than 40,000 spirits.

Nothing represents a man better than his ideas.

Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.

Being crazy, for the rest of us, is a form of sanity.

Poetry from the bottom up is an act of selection: you kind of feel your way through the crowds of poems. The good ones came forward a long time ago, and the bad ones fell away.

The banalities of a great man pass for wit.

Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.

A world constructed from the familiar is the world in which there's nothing to learn.

If roses did not suffer thorns on their journey to beauty, they would lose out on becoming masterpieces.

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.