A fool is one who goes on trusting; a fool is one who goes on trusting against all his experience. You deceive him, and he trusts you; and you deceive him again, and he trusts you; and you deceive him again, and he trusts you. Then you will say that he is a fool, he does not learn. His trust is tremendous; his trust is so pure that nobody can corrupt it. Be a fool in the Taoist sense, in the Zen sense. Don't try to create a wall of knowledge around you. Whatsoever experience comes to you, let it happen, and then go on dropping it. Go on cleaning your mind continuously; go on dying to the past so you remain in the present, herenow, as if just born, just a babe. In the beginning it is going to be very difficult. The world will start taking advantage of you...let them. They are poor fellows. Even if you are cheated and deceived and robbed, let it happen, because that which is really yours cannot be robbed from you, that which is really yours nobody can steal from you. And each time you don't allow situations to corrupt you, that opportunity will become an integration inside. Your soul will become more crystallized.

Osho

A man who lives through conscience becomes hard. A man who lives through consciousness remains soft. Why?--because a man who has some ideas about how to live, naturally becomes hard. He has continuously to carry his character around himself. That character is like an armor; his protection, his security; his whole life is invested in that character. And he always reacts to situations through the character, not directly. If you ask him a question, his answer is ready-made. That is the sign of a hard person--he is dull, stupid, mechanical. He may be a good computer, but he is not a man. You do something and he reacts in a well- established way. His reaction is predictable; he is a robot. The real man acts spontaneously. If you ask him a question, your question gets a response, not a reaction. He opens his heart to your question, exposes himself to your question, responds to it....

Osho

Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.

~ Plato

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.

~ Spinoza

The hottest love has the coldest end.

~ Socrates

This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

~ Plato

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This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector. ~ Plato

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For Zen, man is the goal; man is the end unto himself. God is not something above humanity, God is something hidden within humanity. Man is carrying God in himself as a potentiality.

Osho











Enlightenment is the understanding that this is all, that this is perfect, that this is it. Enlightenment is not an achievement, it is an understanding that there is nothing to achieve, nowhere to go.


Osho











A fool is one who goes on trusting; a fool is one who goes on trusting against all his experience. You deceive him, and he trusts you; and you deceive him again, and he trusts you; and you deceive him again, and he trusts you. Then you will say that he is a fool, he does not learn. His trust is tremendous; his trust is so pure that nobody can corrupt it. Be a fool in the Taoist sense, in the Zen sense. Don't try to create a wall of knowledge around you. Whatsoever experience comes to you, let it happen, and then go on dropping it. Go on cleaning your mind continuously; go on dying to the past so you remain in the present, herenow, as if just born, just a babe. In the beginning it is going to be very difficult. The world will start taking advantage of you...let them. They are poor fellows. Even if you are cheated and deceived and robbed, let it happen, because that which is really yours cannot be robbed from you, that which is really yours nobody can steal from you. And each time you don't allow situations to corrupt you, that opportunity will become an integration inside. Your soul will become more crystallized.


Osho







A man who lives through conscience becomes hard. A man who lives through consciousness remains soft. Why?--because a man who has some ideas about how to live, naturally becomes hard. He has continuously to carry his character around himself. That character is like an armor; his protection, his security; his whole life is invested in that character. And he always reacts to situations through the character, not directly. If you ask him a question, his answer is ready-made. That is the sign of a hard person--he is dull, stupid, mechanical. He may be a good computer, but he is not a man. You do something and he reacts in a well- established way. His reaction is predictable; he is a robot. The real man acts spontaneously. If you ask him a question, your question gets a response, not a reaction. He opens his heart to your question, exposes himself to your question, responds to it....


Osho












A master in Zen is not simply a teacher. In all the religions there are only teachers. They teach you about subjects which you dont know, and they ask you to believe because there is no way to bring those experiences into objective reality. Neither has the teacher known them - he has believed them; he transfers his belief to somebody else. Zen is not a believers world. It is not for the faithful ones; it is for those daring souls who can drop all belief, unbelief, doubt, reason, mind, and simply enter into their pure existence without boundaries. But it brings a tremendous transformation. Hence, let me say that while others are involved in philosophies, Zen is involved in metamorphosis, in a transformation. It is authentic alchemy: it changes you from base metal into gold. But its language has to be understood, not with your reasoning and intellectual mind but with your loving heart. Or even just listening, not bothering whether it is true or not. And a moment comes suddenly that you see it, which has been eluding you your whole life. Suddenly, what Gautam Buddha called "eighty-four thousand doors" open.


Osho

Curiosity is the lust of the mind.

~ Thomas Hobbes

Plato was a bore.

~ Nietzsche

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

~ Nietzsche

Skepticism is the highest duty and blind faith the one unpardonable sin.

~ Thomas Henry Huxley

Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

~ Thomas Hobbes

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

~ Sartre

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

~ Martin Heidegger

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

~ Nietzsche

What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!

~ Nietzsche

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

~ Epictetus

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

~ Aristotle

Nothing is to be preferred before justice.

~ Socrates

The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.

~ Rousseau

Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

~ Plato

Skepticism is the highest duty and blind faith the one unpardonable sin.


~ Thomas Henry Huxley

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. ~ Plato

We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.

~ Schopenhauer

Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.

~ Martin Heidegger

Silence is a true friend who never betrays.

~ Confucius

Enjoy yourself -- it's later than you think.

~ Socrates

From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.

~ Friedrich Engels

Bad men are full of repentance.

~ Aristotle

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

~ Nietzsche

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

~ Aristotle

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

~ Rousseau

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

~ Plato

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

~ Nietzsche

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

~ Plato

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

~ Nietzsche

Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.

~ Saint Augustine

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.

~ Epictetus

There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.

~ Leibniz

What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.

~ Nietzsche

Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.

~ Rousseau

Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.

~ Sartre

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

~ Aristotle

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

~ Schopenhauer

The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.

~ Schopenhauer

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

~ Plato

Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.

~ Chapman Cohen

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

~ Spinoza

Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy. ~ Plato

Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's? ~ Nietzsche

The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow. ~ Socrates

Ascetic: one who makes a necessity of virtue. ~ Nietzsche

The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust. ~ Schopenhauer

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point. ~ Nietzsche

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

~ Seneca

Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond. ~ Hegel

The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity. ~ Sartre

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it. ~ Nietzsche

The essential function of the universe, which is a machine for making gods ~ Henri Bergson

Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it. ~ Montesquieu

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows. ~ Epictetus

I have no need for good souls: an accomplice is what I wanted. ~ Sartre

Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost. ~ Schopenhauer

Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.

~ Nietzsche

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues. ~ Descartes

Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire. ~ Confucius

Silence is safer than speech. ~ Epictetus