"Nature is busy creating absolutely unique individuals, whereas culture has invented a single mold to which all must conform. It is grotesque."

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Source : "Mind is a Myth: Disquieting Conversations with the Man Called U.G". Book by U.G. Krishnamurti, 1987.

U.G. Krishnamurti

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“Sometimes it's just enough to smile sincerely”

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“The Wire' really is an American classic, and I think that's something to be very proud of.”
“I am also atheist or agnostic (I don't even know the difference). I've never been to church and prefer to think for myself.”
“To say that majorities, as such, have a right to rule minorities, is equivalent to saying that minorities have, and ought to have, no rights, except such as majorities please to allow them.”

Source : Lysander Spooner (1867). “No Treason: No. 1-”, p.8
“Every golfer has a little monster in him. It's just that type of sport.”
“You should have seen Willie Wells play shortstop: as good as Ozzie Smith and a better hitter. How I wish people could have seen Ray Dandridge play third base, as good as Brooks Robinson and Craig Nettles and all of those. He was bowlegged; a train might go through there, but not a baseball.”
“For true devotion must issue from the heart, and consist in the truth and substances alone of what is represented by spiritual things; all the rest is affection and attachment proceeding from imperfection; and in order that one may pass to any kind of perfection it is necessary for such desires to be killed.”
“Aspiration gets stuck in some people. It's difficult to think yes. Or up. When all you feel is fight or run.”

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