Laxmi Prasad Devkota: Man

Laxmi Prasad Devkota was Nepali poet. Explore interesting quotes on man.

Laxmi Prasad Devkota: 98 quotes27 likes

“A man's greatness is determined by his heart not by the caste and the lineage he brings.”

मुनामदन (Munamadan)

“The energy to manufacture Art doesn't come merely from the superficial darshan (philosophy) of objects; nor from mere intellect and knowledge; but it comes from those subtle conscience, which finds emotional caressing from divine experience climbing above bestial eyes. The beast merely looks and remains satisfied, but man tries to touch the heart of everything. The superficial understandings do not satisfy him, in the world containing form-relation and conscience he cannot remain satisfied though philosophy. He tries to connect the things seen and experienced in his mind and outer nature with eternal and true and tries to touch them with the help of relation and support of chief reason.”

Laxmi Prasad Devkota

कला र जीवन (Art and Life)
Art and Life

“The beasts don't have Art, neither do plants! But man, full of spiritual nature who can remember and know the information of World Artist, has been endowed with a energy to imitate a little of divine working.”

Laxmi Prasad Devkota

कला र जीवन (Art and Life)
Art and Life
Context: The uprising of Art happens from the talents of the eternal conscience of man. The beasts don't have Art, neither do plants! But man, full of spiritual nature who can remember and know the information of World Artist, has been endowed with a energy to imitate a little of divine working.

“I see the blind man as the people's guide,”

Laxmi Prasad Devkota

Lunatic. 6
पागल (The Lunatic)
Context: I see the blind man as the people's guide, the ascetic in his cave a deserter; those who act in the theater of lies I see as dark buffoons. Those who fail I find successful, and progress only backsliding. am I squint-eyed, Or just crazy? Friend, I'm crazy. Look at the withered tongues of shameless leaders, The dance of the whores At breaking the backbone on the people's rights. When the sparrow-headed newsprint spreads its black lies In a web of falsehood

“Among various games of man created to engage his mind, gambling is the most interesting and which comes the nearest to life's gain-loss, rise-fall.”

Laxmi Prasad Devkota

जूवा (Gambling)

“Science cannot satisfy his curiosity and Man searches for glimpses beyond the Sciences through the magic of emotional and imaginative world, where man feels self-satisfied as if he is near the truth.”

Laxmi Prasad Devkota

कला र जीवन (Art and Life)
Art and Life

“I call education that, which makes man a complete human, which teaches to utilize time…manufactures belief…”

Laxmi Prasad Devkota

शिक्षा (Education)

“That we usually call Education is making man stupid.”

Laxmi Prasad Devkota

शिक्षा (Education)