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  • So too, monks, I saw the ancient path, the ancient road traveled by the Perfectly Enlightened Ones of the past. And what is that ancient path, that ancient road? It is just this Noble Eightfold Path; that is, right view, right intention, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, right concentration.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Past Quotes , Views Quotes
  • Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world, and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary. You may argue against it but you should no more treat it with disrespect than a perfectly cultivated writer would treat (say) the Catholic Church or the Church of Luther no matter how much he disliked them.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Past Quotes , Disrespect Quotes
  • The human mind moves always forward, alters its viewpoint and enlarges its thought substance, and the effect of these changes is to render past systems of thinking obsolete or, when they are preserved, to extend, to modify and subtly or visibly to alter their value.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Sri Aurobindo Quotes , Moving Quotes , Past Quotes
  • The future will be like the past, in the sense that, no matter how amazing or technologically advanced a society becomes, the basic human rhythm of petty malevolence, sordid moneygrubbing, and official violence, illuminated by occasional bursts of loyalty or desire or tenderness, will go on.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Adam Gopnik Quotes , Loyalty Quotes , Past Quotes
  • Every one of course represents the spirit of his age, but there is an eternal aspect of the Spirit of every age which may be caught. To recreate the past from the mutilated fragments of the present is the task of the Historian.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Past Quotes , Age Quotes