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“He who walking on the sea could calm the bitter waves, who gives life to the dying seeds of the earth; he who was able to loose the mortal chains of death, and after three days darkness could bring again to the upper world the brother for his sister Martha: he, I believe, will make Damasus rise again from the dust.”

“He who want to be great must first be a servant.”

“He who wants, therefore, to prove God’s existence (in a different sense than simply to illuminate the concept of God, and without the reservatio finalis, that we have pointed out, that existence emerges from the proof by means of a leap), he proves something else instead, something that perhaps does not always need a proof, and in any case never something better, because the fool says in his heart that there is no God; but he who says in his heart, or to others: wait a minute and I will prove it—is he not a rare sage! If it is not, in the moment when he must begin the proof, undecided whether God exists, then he does not prove it; and if it is like this at the beginning, then he will never really be able to begin, partly out of fear that he might not succeed, because God may not exist, and partly because he has nothing with which to begin.— In ancient times one was hardly preoccupied with such things. At least Socrates, who is said to have produced the physico-teleological proof for God’s existence, did not concern himself with such things. He constantly assumed God existed and, operating on this assumption, endeavoured to permeate existence with the idea of purpose. If one had asked him why he conducted himself in this way, then he would surely have explained that he did not have the courage to venture upon such a voyage of discovery without having the security behind him that God existed. On the basis of God’s word he, so to speak, casts the net in order to capture the idea of purpose; because nature finds many subterfuges and ways to frighten in order to disturb the inquirer.”

“He who wants to educate himself in Chess must evade what is dead in Chess... the habit of playing with inferior opponents; the custom of avoiding difficult tasks; the weakness of uncritically taking over variations or rules discovered by others; the vanity which is self-sufficient; the incapacity for admitting mistakes; in brief, everything that leas to standstill or to anarchy.”

“He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.”

“He who was Shri Rama, whose stream of love flowed with resistless might even to the Chandala (the outcaste); Oh, who ever was engaged in doing good to the world though superhuman by nature, whose renown there is none to equal in the three worlds, Sita's beloved, whose body of Knowledge Supreme was covered by devotion sweet in the form of Sita. (part of A Hymn To Shri Ramakrishna)”