Alok

“You are waiting for me to describe what this silence is so that you can compare it, interpret it, carry it away and bury it. It cannot be described. What can be described is the known, and the freedom from the known can come into being only when there is a dying every day to the known, to the hurts, the flatteries, to all the images you have made, to all your experiences – dying every day so that the brain cells themselves become fresh, young, innocent.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti, Freedom from the Known

“हमारे आचरण की तुलना में हमारे विचार और उद्गार इतने ऊँचे हैं कि उन्हें देखकर आश्चर्य होता है। बातें तो हम शान्ति और अहिंसा की करते हैं, मगर, काम हमारे कुछ और होते हैं। सिद्धान्त तो हम सहिष्णुता का बघारते हैं, लेकिन भाव हमारा यह होता है कि सब लोग वैसे ही सोचें, जैसे हम सोचते हैं और जब भी कोई हमसे भिन्न प्रकार से सोचता है, तब हम उसे बर्दाश्त नहीं कर सकते। घोषणा तो हमारी यह है कि स्थितप्रज्ञ बनना अर्थात् कर्मों के प्रति अनासक्त रहना हमारा आदर्श है, लेकिन काम हमारे बहुत नीचे के धरातल पर चलते हैं और बढ़ती हुई अनुशासनहीनता हमें, वैयक्तिक और सामाजिक, दोनों ही क्षेत्रों में नीचे ले जाती है।”
― Ramdhari Singh Dinkar, Sanskriti Ke Chaar Adhyay

“But we do not ask. We want to be told. One of the most curious things in the structure of our psyche is that we all want to be told because we are the result of the propaganda of ten thousand years. We want to have our thinking confirmed and corroborated by another, whereas to ask a question is to ask it of yourself. What I say has very little value. You will forget it the moment you shut this book, or you will remember and repeat certain phrases, or you will compare what you have read here with some other book – but you will not face your own life. And that is all that matters – your life, yourself, your pettiness, your shallowness, your brutality, your violence, your greed, your ambition, your daily agony and endless sorrow – that is what you have to understand and nobody on earth or in heaven is going to save you from it but yourself.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti, Freedom from the Known

“It's the intellectual who transforms the concept of the world into the problem of meaning.”
― Max Weber, Social Psychology