
“My actions are my only true belongings.”
Source: Understanding Our Mind: 50 Verses on Buddhist Psychology
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 622.
“My actions are my only true belongings.”
Source: Understanding Our Mind: 50 Verses on Buddhist Psychology
“It is the usual though inequitable method of the world, to pronounce an action to be either right or wrong, as it is attended with good or ill success.”
Est omnino iniquum, sed usu receptum, quod honesta consilia vel turpia, prout male aut prospere cedunt, ita vel probantur vel reprehenduntur.
Letter 9, 7.
Letters, Book V
Source: Understanding Our Mind: 50 Verses on Buddhist Psychology
“The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation.”
Unidentified episode
The Ascent of Man (1973)
Source: Pedagogia do oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) (1968, English trans. 1970), Chapter 2
1941 - 1967
Source: 'statement by the Chairman of the Jury', Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. 1951, p. 7
“I cannot contribute anything to this world because I only have one method: agony.”
Source: On the Heights of Despair (1934)
Rampart Institute, p.411
The Fundamental of Liberty (1988)
“The only true world solution today is governments guided by true religion — of the spirit.”
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965)