Akshay Deshpande

“Prudens quæstio dimidium scientiæ—to know what to ask is already to know half.”
― Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy

“O, how incomprehensible everything was, and actually sad, although it was so beautiful. One knew nothing. One lived and ran about the earth and rode through forests, and certain things looked so challenging and promising and nostalgic: a star in the evening, a blue harebell, a reed-green pond, the eye of a person or a cow. And sometimes it seemed that something never seen yet long desired was about to happen, that a veil would drop from it all; but then it passed, nothing happened, the riddle remained unsolved, the secret spell unbroken, and in the end one grew old and looked cunning . . . or wise . . . and still one knew nothing perhaps, was still waiting and listening.”
― Peter Matthiessen, The Snow Leopard

“Human behavior, says Plato, flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.”
― Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy

“A true experience of prajna corresponds to “enlightenment” or liberation—not change, but transformation—a profound vision of his identity with universal life, past, present, and future, that keeps man from doing harm to others and sets him free from fear of birth-and-death. In”
― Peter Matthiessen, The Snow Leopard