I dream of a Digital India where technology ensures the Citizen-Government interface is incorruptible.
There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.
Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.
All passion becomes strength when it has an outlet.
I went through the standard scientific atheist phase when I was about 14. I bought into that package deal of science equals atheism.
Take Ezra Pound's translations of poetry from Chinese. He doesn't really know Chinese, and the very strange results that he comes up with aren't all successful, but as a whole it's incredibly successful, moving us away from familiar forms and indicating other forms we might think in or express in.
The academic mind can eat away the very basis of its own assurance. . . produce contortions when it tries to bend over backward. . . allow itself to be dismayed by the picture it has created of relentless historical process.
Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time.