Top 29 Nanamoli Thera Quotes
#1. It is in the company of others that one can be really lonely, for then one's personality is forced openly to try to express what it's separate individuality is.
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#2. When we are young the noise of general conversation seems much the most fun. When we grow up we discover the possibilities of the tete-a-tete. In maturity the monologue habit sets is. But now at last there is the chance to investigate the rich depth of the silence when the monologue is suspended.
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#3. What the scientists are apt to forget: the difference between quantity and quality is one of quality, not of -quantity.
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#4. Authoritative people bore me: but what bores me even more are those swarms of little people who love authority and in virtue of whom the authority of the authoritative can be exercised.
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#5. It is no ipso facto escape from dogma to assert (knowingly or not) non-dogmatism dogmatically.
It is no ipso facto escape from credulity to believe in one's own scepticism.
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#6. The five senses offer us five different ways of shutting out reality. What is intuition and what does it perceive?
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#7. I was the future and shall be the past - I am a timeless, everlasting Now, so short I have no end, so long I have no duration.
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#8. Forgetting is a very useful kind of ignorance: it wipes the bad sums off our slates.
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#9. Ignorance screens the truth. It is on that screen that people paint pictures and write underneath their labels "god" and "not-god" and "theism.' and "atheism" .
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#10. Just as one can arrange bits of iron, etc, into a hermetically sealed box which imprison other pieces of matter, so one can arrange thoughts into a box too, which effectively imprisons other thoughts.
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#11. What we are not at all interested in may be what we are.
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#12. Odd how people interested in religion spend so much time trying to convert the obvious meaning of their texts that are their authority.
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#13. If you are not master of the facts they will beat you down with opinions. If you are not master of the void they will beat you down with facts.
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#14. Absolute Truth would be incompatible with life as absolute light would be with vision
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#15. Two demons: one who insists that what is to be inferred by verbal processes must correspond to experience; and one who 'insists that what cannot be arrived at by verbal processes cannot correspond to experience.
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#16. Certainty is absence of infinity, infinity is presence of uncertainty.
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#17. Interpretative thoughts settle on a bare sensory perception like a swarm of blue-bottles on an open wound.
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#19. The basic Irrational Act which is renewed every moment of life, is not to commit suicide.
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#20. I have always felt doubtful about those people who try to get one to give up one's own bunkum and accept their debunkum instead.
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#21. Where would I be (and what would happen to me), if I could see all round me and above and below at once ?
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#22. Civilisation is the art of living in contact with other persons with the minimum of discomfort.
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#23. How does the body come to be apprehended as a body? Why does it not fall apart into the seen and the heard, the smelt, the tasted and the touched?
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#24. A thought for this Damocletian Age: the trouble with justice is it just isn't it?
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#25. Much of what is asserted as true is so asserted, not as a declaration of what the speaker knows but rather as a defence against doubt in the hope that the opposite proposition may be thereby excluded.
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#26. How is it I have the strength to carry my own weaknesses?
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#27. As electricity is made up of positive and negative current - so is human life a system of attraction and repulsion. - Turn off the current if you want quiet. - Yes, but where is the switch?
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#28. All the questions asked about death are wrongly put.
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#29. It is our eyes that blind us and our ears that deafen us.
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