
Source: Fire without Fuel - The Aphorisms of Baba Hari Dass (1986), Ch.III: Mind - Its Functions and Its Fantasies
Fire without Fuel - The Aphorisms of Baba Hari Dass, 1986
Context: A person knows what he knows. An animal knows, but doesn't know what he knows. In Yoga, "I" consciousness is called asmita klesha. It is classified as an affliction and a hindrance to attaining higher consciousness. There is always a chance for a person to break out of the cycle, but there is no such chance for an animal unless it incarnates as a human and develops "I" consciousness. (p.36-7)
Source: Fire without Fuel - The Aphorisms of Baba Hari Dass (1986), Ch.III: Mind - Its Functions and Its Fantasies
Source: How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
Quoted by Maya Angelou (quote reproduced in James L. Conyers, Andrew P. Smallwood, Malcolm X: A Historical Reader, Carolina Academic Press, 2008, p. 181 and Elaine Slivinski Lisandrelli, Maya Angelou: More than a poet, Enslow Publishers, 1996, p. 90)
Attributed
“A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.”
1940s–present, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)
Source: Detective Story (2008), p. 69.
Context: If a person resolves to fight, he ought to know what he is fighting for. Otherwise it makes no sense. A person usually fights against a power in order to gain power himself. Or else because the power in question is threatening his life.
“When a person knows and can't
make the others understand, what does he do?”
Source: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
“An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.”
As quoted in Peter's Quotations : Ideas for Our Time (1979) by Laurence J. Peter, p. 258
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