There is no such things like reality and the real world. Nothing is aboslute. Your worst enemy's face could be my best freind's face." - The Monk who sold his ferrari, Robin sharma.
"In the world even the best things are worthless without those who
represent them: those representers, the people call great men."
"Little, do the people understand what is great- that is to say,
the creating agency. But they have a taste for all representers and
actors of great things."
"Around the devisers of new values revolveth the world:- invisibly it
revolveth. But around the actors revolve the people and the glory:
such is the course of things."
- Fredrik nietzche. [Thus spake zarathushtra]
"Everything is good..everything. Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he is happy. It's only that..thats all,thats all!! If anyone finds out, he ll become happy at once,that minute" -Fedor Dostoevsky.
"A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns" - Don corelone [the godfather,Puzo]
"Don't let others know what you think" - Don corelone
"It's queer how out of touch with truth women are. They live in a world of their own, and there has never been anything like it and never can be. It is too beautiful altogether and if they were to set it up,it would go to pieces before the first sunset." - Heart of Darkness,Joseph conrad.
A monk asked " what is buddha?"
The master said "who are you..?" - Joshu
"This is the time.This is the place.this is the vastness.right here is paradise.always,always.." - Byron katie.
"The public is like women. Women prefer to get ruled by powerful men than putting their control over weak men." - Mein kamph, Adolph hitler.
You don't need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen,simply wait.do not even wait,be quiet stil and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you unmasked.It has no choice,it will roll in ecstasy at your feet" - Franz kafka.
"My surprised reached a climax when I found incidentally that he[sherlock holmes] was ignorant of the copernicus theoiry and of the composition of the solar system. He [holmes] explained - "I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic and you have to stock it with such furnitures as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumbers of every sort that he comes across.So that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things.So that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon that.Now the skillfull workman is very careful indeed as to what he takes into his brain attic. he has nothing but the tools which may help him in doing his work, but of there he has a large assortment and all in the most perfect order. It's of high importance,therefore not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones..You say that we go round the sun.If we went round the moon,it wouldn't make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work" - Sherlock Homes, 'The study in scarlet', Arthur Conan Doyle.
"Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values" - Ayn rand.
"You talked about the first principle again,but I still don't know what it is " - I said to suzuki,
"I don't know" he said "is the first principle" - Shunryu suzuki.
"You are the truth from foot to brow,now what else would you like to know ?" -RUMI.
Ayn rand's objectivist philosophy contains a lot of 'should'. Should destructs freedom and thus makes 'individualism' impossible - Vaishak Nambiar....
Thanks...with Love...vaishak......