Ancient Teachings: Wisdom of the Siddhar Sages
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| PLATO | “Until Philosophers are kings, or kings have the spirit of Philosophy, cities will never have rest from their troubles.” |
| ARISTOTLE | “If it is in our power to act nobly, it is also in our power to do evil.” |
| EPICURUS | “No pleasure is a bad thing in itself” |
| CICERO | “Virtue is the foundation of friendship” “…We live but for a moment” |
| MARCUS AURELIUS | “…We live but for a moment” |
| SEVERINUS BOETHIUS | “The good are always strong” |
| DESIDERIUS ERASMUS | “Fortune favours the fool.” |
| THOMAS MORE | “All princes have more delights in warlike matters… than in the good feats of peace” |
| NICOLAUS COPERNICUS | “Therefore the earth is not flat.” |
| FRANCIS BACON | “if a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.” |
| REN’E DESCARTE | “Cogito, ergo sum” [I think, therefore I am] |
| THOMAS HOBBES | “…the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short” |
| BLAISE PASCAL | “Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.” |
| BARUCH SPINOZA | “all things are in God” |
| ISAAC NEWTON | “I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.” |
| JOHN LOCKE | “I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts” |
| GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZ | “the soul is the mirror of the universe” |
| GEORGE BERKELEY | “Essence IS perception” |
| DAVID HUME | “It is never possible to deduce judgements of value from matters of fact” |
| JEAN_JACQUES ROUSSEAU | “Man was born free, and everywhere he is in irons.” |
| IMMANUEL KANT | “Reason is the pupil of itself alone. It is the oldest of the sciences” |
| THOMAS PAINE | “Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one” |
| MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT | “I do not wish them to have power over men; but over themselves.” |
| G.W.F.HEGEL | “God is the absolute truth.” |
| RALPH WALDO EMERSON | “A man is a god in ruins.” |
Gratitude to my Gurus, the divine masters! aum
