Philosophy Quote by Rabindranath Tagore — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.”

“Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.”

“Deliverance is not for me in renunciation. I feel the embrace of freedom in a thousand bonds of delight.”

“Let your life lightly dance on the edges of”

“We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.”

“The young student sits with his head bent over his books, and his mind straying in youth's dreamland; where prose is prowling on the desk and poetry hiding in the heart.”

“If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.”

“Calvin:"It says here that 'religion is the opiate of the masses.'...what do you suppose that means?”

“A Paradox, the doughnut hole. Empty space, once, but now they've learned to market even that. A minus quantity; nothing, rendered edible. I wondered if they might be used-metaphorically, of course-to demonstrate the existence of God. Does naming a sphere of nothingness transmute it into being?”

“We must think beyond ourselves”

“Calling sex by its name thereafter [the 17th c.] became more difficult and more costly. As if in order to gain mastery of it in reality, it had first been necessary to subjugate it at the level of language, control its free circulation in speech, expunge it from the things that were said, and extinguish the words that rendered it too visibly present.”

“Imagine that one day you are out for a walk in the woods. Suddenly you see a small spaceship on the path in front of you. A tiny Martian climbs out the spaceship and stands on the ground looking up at you…”