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Nobel Prize Books
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One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 371 times as nobel-prize)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,108,200 ratings — published 1967
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 287 times as nobel-prize)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,409,595 ratings — published 1942
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 280 times as nobel-prize)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,317,322 ratings — published 1952
Blindness (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 277 times as nobel-prize)
avg rating 4.18 — 339,877 ratings — published 1995
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 244 times as nobel-prize)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,208,557 ratings — published 1954
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 229 times as nobel-prize)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,844,586 ratings — published 1937
Disgrace (Paperback)
by (shelved 211 times as nobel-prize)
avg rating 3.86 — 117,491 ratings — published 1999
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 208 times as nobel-prize)
avg rating 3.85 — 858,237 ratings — published 2005
The Remains of the Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 207 times as nobel-prize)
avg rating 4.14 — 361,570 ratings — published 1989
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 205 times as nobel-prize)
avg rating 3.98 — 491,934 ratings — published 1987
Love in the Time of Cholera (Paperback)
by (shelved 203 times as nobel-prize)
avg rating 3.94 — 548,041 ratings — published 1985
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 186 times as nobel-prize)
avg rating 3.94 — 157,090 ratings — published 2009
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 181 times as nobel-prize)
avg rating 4.08 — 879,825 ratings — published 1922
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 179 times as nobel-prize)
avg rating 4.03 — 996,596 ratings — published 1939
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 166 times as nobel-prize)
avg rating 4.02 — 316,072 ratings — published 1947
My Name Is Red (Paperback)
by (shelved 165 times as nobel-prize)
avg rating 3.87 — 61,504 ratings — published 1998
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 152 times as nobel-prize)
avg rating 4.40 — 64,991 ratings — published 1997
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 146 times as nobel-prize)
avg rating 4.44 — 642,678 ratings — published 1952
A Farewell to Arms (Paperback)
by (shelved 134 times as nobel-prize)
avg rating 3.82 — 354,598 ratings — published 1929
The Magic Mountain (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 134 times as nobel-prize)
avg rating 4.13 — 61,925 ratings — published 1924
Steppenwolf (Paperback)
by (shelved 132 times as nobel-prize)
avg rating 4.13 — 216,194 ratings — published 1927
Snow (Paperback)
by (shelved 132 times as nobel-prize)
avg rating 3.62 — 49,584 ratings — published 2002
The Golden Notebook (Paperback)
by (shelved 132 times as nobel-prize)
avg rating 3.77 — 24,741 ratings — published 1962
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 127 times as nobel-prize)
avg rating 3.65 — 386,830 ratings — published 2007
Doctor Zhivago (Paperback)
by (shelved 126 times as nobel-prize)
avg rating 4.01 — 103,199 ratings — published 1957
The Tin Drum (Paperback)
by (shelved 126 times as nobel-prize)
avg rating 3.95 — 46,776 ratings — published 1959
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 126 times as nobel-prize)
avg rating 4.13 — 302,389 ratings — published 1970
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Paperback)
by (shelved 125 times as nobel-prize)
avg rating 3.98 — 125,433 ratings — published 1962
Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Vintage International)
by (shelved 121 times as nobel-prize)
avg rating 3.97 — 237,201 ratings — published 1981
Independent People (Vintage International)
by (shelved 121 times as nobel-prize)
avg rating 4.12 — 14,708 ratings — published 1934
The Sound and the Fury (Paperback)
by (shelved 120 times as nobel-prize)
avg rating 3.86 — 196,401 ratings — published 1929
The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1)
by (shelved 120 times as nobel-prize)
avg rating 4.01 — 261,019 ratings — published 1931
The Piano Teacher (Hardcover)
by (shelved 119 times as nobel-prize)
avg rating 3.62 — 16,471 ratings — published 1983
The Sun Also Rises (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as nobel-prize)
avg rating 3.79 — 495,055 ratings — published 1926
Hunger (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as nobel-prize)
avg rating 4.04 — 65,170 ratings — published 1890
Waiting for Godot (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as nobel-prize)
avg rating 3.84 — 222,765 ratings — published 1951
Snow Country (Vintage International)
by (shelved 113 times as nobel-prize)
avg rating 3.56 — 41,576 ratings — published 1948
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Paperback)
by (shelved 112 times as nobel-prize)
avg rating 3.99 — 318,865 ratings — published 1940
Klara and the Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 110 times as nobel-prize)
avg rating 3.74 — 436,474 ratings — published 2021
The Bridge on the Drina (Bosnian Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 110 times as nobel-prize)
avg rating 4.33 — 25,263 ratings — published 1945
Dear Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 109 times as nobel-prize)
avg rating 3.74 — 40,326 ratings — published 2011
Flights (Hardcover)
by (shelved 106 times as nobel-prize)
avg rating 3.75 — 38,030 ratings — published 2007
The Feast of the Goat (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as nobel-prize)
avg rating 4.35 — 43,028 ratings — published 2000
As I Lay Dying (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as nobel-prize)
avg rating 3.72 — 187,474 ratings — published 1930
Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family (Hardcover)
by (shelved 101 times as nobel-prize)
avg rating 4.20 — 35,857 ratings — published 1901
Fatelessness (Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as nobel-prize)
avg rating 4.09 — 13,584 ratings — published 1975
Nausea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as nobel-prize)
avg rating 3.93 — 140,080 ratings — published 1938
War's Unwomanly Face (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as nobel-prize)
avg rating 4.51 — 39,192 ratings — published 1983
Waiting for the Barbarians (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as nobel-prize)
avg rating 3.93 — 35,923 ratings — published 1980
Red Sorghum (Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as nobel-prize)
avg rating 3.81 — 8,856 ratings — published 1987
“Yoga is pure science, and Patanjali is the greatest name as far as the world of yoga is concerned. This man is rare. There is no other name comparable to Patanjali. For the first time in the history of humanity, this man brought religion to the state of a science..
Yoga says experience. Just like science says experiment, yoga says experience. Experiment and experience are both the same, their directions are different. Experiment means something you can do outside; experience means something you can do inside. Experience iS an inside experiment
Yoga is not a philosophy. It is not something you can think about. It is something you will have to be; thinking won't do. Thinking goes on in your head. It is not really deep into the roots of your being; it is not your totality. It is just a part, a functional part; it can be trained.
Yoga is concerned with your total being, with your roots. It is not philosophical. So with Patanjali we will not be thinking, speculating. With Patanjali we will be trying to know the ultimate laws of being: the laws of its transformation, the laws of how to die and how to be reborn again, the laws of a new order of being. That is why I call it a science.
Patanjali is like an Einstein in the word of Buddhas. He is a phenomenon. He could have easily been a Nobel Prize winner like an Einstein or Bohr or Max Planck, Heisenberg. He has the same attitude, the same approach of a rigorous scientific mind.
And if you follow Patanjali, you will come to know that he is as exact as any mathematical formula. Simply do what he says and the result will happen. The result is bound to happen; it is just like two plus two, they become four. It is just like you heat water up to one hundred degrees and it evaporates.
That's why I say there is no comparison. On this earth, never a man has existed like Patanjali.”
― Yoga: the Alpha and the Omega, Volume 1
Yoga says experience. Just like science says experiment, yoga says experience. Experiment and experience are both the same, their directions are different. Experiment means something you can do outside; experience means something you can do inside. Experience iS an inside experiment
Yoga is not a philosophy. It is not something you can think about. It is something you will have to be; thinking won't do. Thinking goes on in your head. It is not really deep into the roots of your being; it is not your totality. It is just a part, a functional part; it can be trained.
Yoga is concerned with your total being, with your roots. It is not philosophical. So with Patanjali we will not be thinking, speculating. With Patanjali we will be trying to know the ultimate laws of being: the laws of its transformation, the laws of how to die and how to be reborn again, the laws of a new order of being. That is why I call it a science.
Patanjali is like an Einstein in the word of Buddhas. He is a phenomenon. He could have easily been a Nobel Prize winner like an Einstein or Bohr or Max Planck, Heisenberg. He has the same attitude, the same approach of a rigorous scientific mind.
And if you follow Patanjali, you will come to know that he is as exact as any mathematical formula. Simply do what he says and the result will happen. The result is bound to happen; it is just like two plus two, they become four. It is just like you heat water up to one hundred degrees and it evaporates.
That's why I say there is no comparison. On this earth, never a man has existed like Patanjali.”
― Yoga: the Alpha and the Omega, Volume 1
“I wish I had my beta-blockers handy.
[Comment when told that he had won a Nobel prize, referring to the drug he discovered for the treatment of heart disease.]”
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[Comment when told that he had won a Nobel prize, referring to the drug he discovered for the treatment of heart disease.]”
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