Source: The Sunset Limited
“When a person knows and can't
make the others understand, what does he do?”
Source: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
“The only person who never makes mistakes is the person who never does anything.”
1990s, Long Walk to Freedom (1995)
“What kind of a person does Enlightenment produce?”
Said the Master:
"To be public-spirited and belong to no party,
to move without being bound to any given course,
to take things as they come,
have no remorse for the past,
no anxiety for the future,
to move when pushed,
to come when dragged,
to be like a mighty gale,
like a feather in the wind,
like weeds floating on a river,
like a mill-stone meekly grinding,
to love all creation equally
as heaven and earth are equal to all
— such is the product of Enlightenment."
On hearing these words one of the younger disciples cried, "This sort of teaching is not for the living but for the dead," and walked away, never to return.
Rejection
One Minute Wisdom (1989)
“To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.”
Source: The Alchemist (1988), p. 158.
Source: Moby-Dick: or, the Whale (1851), Ch. 17 : The Ramadan
Context: I have no objection to any person’s religion, be it what it may, so long as that person does not kill or insult any other person, because that other person don’t believe it also. But when a man’s religion becomes really frantic; when it is a positive torment to him; and, in fine, makes this earth of ours an uncomfortable inn to lodge in; then I think it high time to take that individual aside and argue the point with him.
“It is not easy to become an educated person.”
Methods of Mathematics Applied to Calculus, Probability, and Statistics (1985)
[Ghatak, Ritwik, Cinema and I, 1987, Ritwik Memorial Trust, 65]
