“If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.”
More from Jiddu Krishnamurti on Philosophy
“What we are trying to do is to understand this confusion and not cover it up with quotations.”
“A man who knows what it is to have humility is a vain man.”
“Analysis does not transform consciousness.”
“If, living in the world, you refuse to be a part of it, you will help other out of this chaos - not in the future, not tomorrow, but now.”
“Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.”
“Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.”
“Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.”
“The word 'innocence' means a mind that is incapable of being hurt.”
“The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another.”
“One of the fundamental causes of the disintegration of society is copying, which is the worship of authority.”
Others on Philosophy
Ludwig Wittgenstein
22 quotes“The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.”
Christopher Hitchens
22 quotes“How much vanity must be concealed – not too effectively at that – in order to pretend that one is the personal object of...”
Nietzsche
22 quotes“One does not hate as long as one has a low esteem of someone, but only when one esteems him as an equal or a superior.”
Carl Jung
21 quotes“The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.”
Immanuel Kant
20 quotes“Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.”
Heraclitus
19 quotes“All things flow nothing abides.”
H. L. Mencken
17 quotes“We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.”
C.S. Lewis
15 quotes“[Consciousness] is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
14 quotes“Consciousness is man's greatest misfortune, still I know that man loves it and will not exchange it for any satisfaction...”
Samuel Beckett
14 quotes“The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.”
Napoleon
14 quotes“Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.”
Isaac Asimov
13 quotes“Society is much more easily soothed than one's own conscience.”