Chapters 19-29

The names, qualities, pastimes, and nature of God cannot be understood by these material senses, but if we engage in God’s service, they will all be revealed.
Immanuel Kant

It is revealed knowledge. If one becomes submissive and engages in the service of the Lord and the spiritual master, all these truths will be revealed. No one can mislead a person who receives knowledge through revelation.
Immanuel Kant

Transcendental knowledge is not a matter of speculation. It is received from higher authority.
Immanuel Kant

We should be dependent on some authority, and that authority should be recognized. Then knowledge is possible. That is Vaisnavism.
Immanuel Kant

Knowledge comes from purified sense experience.
Immanuel Kant

If a material world is possible, certainly a spiritual world is possible. This is preliminary knowledge.
Immanuel Kant

Despite the different bodily changes, consciousness is enduring.
Immanuel Kant

It is unreasonable to think that matter automatically combines independent of intelligence to form the sun, moon, and other planets.
Immanuel Kant

Innate knowledge is knowledge that is already there. We say that Krsna is the caitya-guru because Krsna is within. Krsna is everything both inside and outside.
Immanuel Kant

Why agnostic? He should go to higher authorities.
Immanuel Kant

Krsna can be understood only through the grace of Krsna.
Immanuel Kant

It is not possible for a speculator to reach the vicinity of God.
Immanuel Kant

Revelation means that God opens the curtain for His devotee.
Immanuel Kant

For mental speculators, the real world is nothing more than the negation of this world. This is voidism.
Immanuel Kant

This is typical materialistic thinking. He thinks, “Since this is not truth, the opposite must be truth.
Immanuel Kant

No one wants to die; we all want to live. However, this is hopeless because the body is not eternal. Therefore, we understand that in the ideal world, the body is eternal.
Immanuel Kant

By witnessing the changes of seasons, heat and cold, happiness and distress, we can understand that there is a designer or brain behind the functionings of material nature.
Immanuel Kant

If we are very anxious to see Krsna and full in Krsna consciousness, we will be transferred to Krsna’s abode at the time of death. This is Krsna’s promise in Bhagavad-gita.
Immanuel Kant

When we begin to analyze material energy, so many complications arise.
Immanuel Kant

Everything starts out as a seed and grows from there. Now, where does the seed come from?
Immanuel Kant

How can one deny his father? How can one deny the cause? He cannot because his very existence is depending on some cause.
Immanuel Kant

There cannot be an effect without a cause.
Immanuel Kant

You may or may not understand what the cause is, but there must be a cause. Without a cause, nothing can happen.
Immanuel Kant

Faith should not be blind. If it is , it is useless.
Immanuel Kant

When we hear about God and His activities, we can also realize them because God is absolute. There is no difference between seeing Him and hearing about Him. In this way, true knowledge is attained.
Immanuel Kant

In Bhagavad-gita, God speaks about Himself and His activities, and Srimad-Bhagavatam is a record of God's activities and pastimes.
Immanuel Kant

Since religion means obedience to God, it does not refer to some sect. People are trying to understand God in different ways, but these ways are not real religion; they are methods of understanding God. Religion begins when we have understood God and are rendering Him service.
Immanuel Kant

Morality is relative. It varies according to the development of a particular society. For instance, there are many immoral acts taking place in modern society, but no one cares. People go ahead and act as they please.
Immanuel Kant

Since so many immoral activities are being accepted as moral, how else can a person know what is moral and what is not?
Immanuel Kant

Morality must have some background, otherwise it will change at any moment.
Immanuel Kant

If you believe in God and know God, you can get perfect knowledge from Him. Then you’ll become perfect.
Immanuel Kant

Because your senses are imperfect, you cannot create morality. You cannot even know what is moral. Therefore you should follow the orders of Krsna or His representative. The real categorical imperative is to obey the Supreme. That is morality, and anything else is immoral.
Immanuel Kant

We cannot think, “I am doing this for a good cause; therefore it is good.” In this way, people manufacture all kinds of creeds and act in every way. Guidance is required. We must consult a superior authority for confirmation.
Immanuel Kant

Man’s dignity is his inherent quality of obedience to the Supreme. It is that obedience that we should not sacrifice. We are not independent, but subordinate to God’s will.
Immanuel Kant

Morality may help us come to the transcendental platform, but coming to that platform is not dependent on morality. It is independent of everything. Krsna’s order is above morality.
Immanuel Kant

But there is spiritual evolution. Even though a devotee falls down, what he has earned in devotional service will never be lost. In the next life, he begins from that point.
Immanuel Kant

If you know that you are the eternal servant of Krsna, and you are serving Krsna, that service is your happiness. Even if your duty is painful, you are still happy because you know that you are acting for Krsna.
Immanuel Kant

Unless there is a Supreme, what is the value of morality?
Immanuel Kant

It is the duty of one who knows Krsna to preach about Him out of mercy. Those who are satisfied just tending to their own personal spiritual life are not as highly elevated as those who try to enlighten others.
Immanuel Kant

Our Krsna consciousness movement means applying knowledge of Krsna. If you are a devotee, you must demonstrate it.
Immanuel Kant

A neophyte should work for Krsna; otherwise he will simply be a showbottle. We have to spread Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s teachings all over the world.
Immanuel Kant

We may either accept this or not––that is all right with Krsna––but it is our business to inform everyone that Krsna is the Supreme Lord and that everyone else is His eternal servant. If we enlighten people in this way, we are engaged in Krsna’s service.
Immanuel Kant

The brahmanas advise the ksatriyas. If the brahmanas are empowered and try to administer, their philosophical qualities will be diminished. They should remain free and act only as advisors.
Immanuel Kant

Our conscience is determined according to our association.
Johann Gottlieb Fichte

The definition of God and the orders of God are standard. We cannot manufacture God or morality.
Johann Gottlieb Fichte

The material world is created for the pastimes of the conditioned soul, just as the spiritual world is manifest for the pastimes of Krsna.
Johann Gottlieb Fichte

If one follows the Vedic instructions concerning eating, sleeping, defending, and mating, he can become eligible to return to Godhead very quickly.
Johann Gottlieb Fichte

People cannot master their senses, yet they are prepared to try to master the world, or society.
Johann Gottlieb Fichte

We attain knowledge when we realize that we are not masters but the eternal servants of Krsna.
Johann Gottlieb Fichte

Duty means following the orders given by your superior, but if you have no superior, if you have no conception of the Supreme and His order, how can you know your duty?
Johann Gottlieb Fichte

If you follow the principles that are set forth specifically for each stage of life, you are doing your duty.
Johann Gottlieb Fichte

If one thinks, “This is matter, and this is spirit” he is speculating. We have to see God in relation to everything. When we do not, everything becomes material. Materialism means forgetfulness of God.
Johann Gottlieb Fichte

If we have firm faith, we will become perfect by surrendering unto Krsna. If we still have reservations, we cannot have firm faith.
Johann Gottlieb Fichte

God is there giving dictations within the heart, and we may either obey or disobey. If we obey, we become devotees.
Johann Gottlieb Fichte

It is contradictory to speak of the “impersonal Absolute.
Johann Gottlieb Fichte

As for merging or unifying with the Absolute Supreme Personality of Godhead, Bhagavan, this is not possible. It is not possible for the finite living entity to become the infinite God.
Johann Gottlieb Fichte

The fact is that there is only one energy: the superior spiritual energy.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Sometimes people criticize us for using material devices like dictaphones, typewriters, and airplanes, but we reply that these things are spiritual. If they are used for our sense gratification, they are material, but if used in realation to Krsna, they are spiritual.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Because we are part and parcel of Krsna, we have no duty other than to serve Krsna. When this consciousness comes, everything is spiritual.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

If you defy Krsna and manufacture your own religion, you are asuric, demoniac
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Reality refers to that which exists eternally.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Only rascals think that there is no purpose in life, that everything is a result of chance.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Unless you accept a personal God, there is no question of reason.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

When we understand that we are in an awkward position within this material world, we strive for liberation. Unless we understand that we are entrapped, there is no question of liberation.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The image of God worshipped in the temple is God Himself because God is Absolute.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Unless there is substance in the spiritual world, nothing could exist. In the final analysis, we have to accept the fact that everything is emanating from the substance.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Contradictory things are adjusted in Krsna; therefore we say that Krsna is inconceivable.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

It is a fact that you cannot conceive of anything that does not have existence.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

God is Absolute, and evil and good are reconciled in Him.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Since a rascal cannot understand God, God does not exist for him.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

It stands to reason that if you want to know about me and my nature, you had best take knowledge from me personally instead of speculating.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

All scriptures accept the guru, the spiritual master, as the Supreme Lord Himself because he does not concoct anything. He is the servant of God, and his knowledge is given by God.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

This is the morality we accept. The laws of man are imperfect, but God’s are perfect. Why should we accept the imperfect advice of other men?
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

God says, “Thou shalt not kill.” If we are religious, we stop killing. However, if we understand why we should not kill, we are philosophic.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Our claim to proprietorship is false because we are neither the creators no maintainers of property.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Originally, the Bible said, “Thou shalt not kill,” but people have created a conscience by which they can think, “Yes, killing is all right.”
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Conscience means discriminating power.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

According to Vedic philosophy, if one kills an animal, he should also be prepared to be killed.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

It is nature’s law that we have to eat other living beings in order to exist; therefore we can eat fruit and vegetables. We can take these without killing the trees and plants. But if we eat animals, we have to kill them.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

If you cook for yourself, you have to take all the responsibility for your sinful activity, even if you are a vegetarian.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

We must first attain the qualifications and then work accordingly.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

If it is accepted that the state is the representative of God, the state’s first business is to make its citizens God conscious. Any state that neglects this duty should be immediately rejected as unqualified.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Because the leaders are not trained to protect the citizens, the whole world is in trouble.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The leaders in modern democratic states are concerned only with exacting taxes. It is stated in the sastras that if the leaders keep the citizens morally blind and exact taxes from them, the leaders will go to ruination.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

When a king levies taxes, he takes a share of the sinful reactions of the citizens. If the citizens are pious, both the king and the citizens will profit. If not, if it is a case of the blind leading the blind, they will lead one another to hell.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

If there is a war, the party that is God conscious will be victorious. If neither side is God conscious, it is a demonic war. It is not justified; it is just like a cat and dog fight. If we fight, we should fight on behalf of the Supreme God.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

If maya does not disturb us, what is the point of fighting?
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

We say that whatever empire comes will certainly fall. There is no need to study history to know that. A godless empire will never endure.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Since there is no past, present, and future for God, there is no history.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

If Americans spread Krsna consciousness and make their president Krsna conscious, America will be God’s empowered nation.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

It was my mission to go to America and educate the Americans in Krsna consciousness because I knew that if they become Krsna conscious, the whole world will follow.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

You should not become stagnant, thinking, “Now I have understood Krsna consciousness. Now let me sit down and just chant Hare Krsna.” This is not desired. Go spread Krsna consciousness, and in this way glorify your nation.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Religion is neither imagination nor pure thought. Religion is the order coming from the most pure. This cannot be imagined or created.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Is it perfect to say that God only has one son?
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

When we try to understand why Krsna wants us to surrender unto Him, why we are obliged to surrender unto Him, we are in the realm of philosophy. When philosophy supports religion, it is perfect.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

but if one has sex for his own sense enjoyment, that is demoniac
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Thinking, feeling, and willing are carried from this body to another body in the process of transmigration. When the body dies, the living entity is carried away by his will.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Krsna instructs that the pleasures and pains simply touch the body, not the soul.
Arthur Schopenhauer

We are spiritual, and when we will spiritual, we are Krsna conscious. When we will materially, we get different types of material bodies.
Arthur Schopenhauer

The basic principle of those who are addicted to the material world is maithuna, sexual intercourse. This strong desire for sex continues as long as we are in material existence, because that is the center of all pleasure.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Sex is animalistic. It is not love but lust. Sex means the mutual satisfaction of senses, and that is lust. All this lust is taking place under the name of love, and out of illusion, people mistake this lust for love.
Arthur Schopenhauer

The more you love, the more your surrender is perfect. When there is a lack of love, the mentality by which you can surrender will not develop.
Arthur Schopenhauer

If you are put in a dangerous position, and you know how to see yourself from it, that very danger will later give you pleasure.
Arthur Schopenhauer

One kind of willing may be stopped, but there will be another kind of willing and satisfaction. We must understand that behind the whimsical will is the spirit soul.
Arthur Schopenhauer

It is all right if the body is annihilated, but you cannot deliberately kill the body because that is hindering its progress.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Within the Vedic religion there are two basic sects: Mayavadi and Vaisnava.
Arthur Schopenhauer

While denying the will for material happiness, we must assert the will for spiritual happiness. When denying one thing, we must accept something else. No one can remain in a neutral position.
Arthur Schopenhauer

It is not our will that is to be satisfied, but the will of God.
Arthur Schopenhauer

The will cannot be killed because it is the function of the soul. Since the soul is eternal, willing is also eternal.
Arthur Schopenhauer

If we give up the ritualistic ceremonies, there is every chance that we will fall down. Even though we may be liberated, we should continue performing sacrifices, charities, and penance in order to keep our position secure.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Those who are ignorant, materially covered, sleep more, and those who are spiritually enlightened sleep less.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Sleep should be avoided, but since that is not possible, it should be adjusted to the minimum.
Arthur Schopenhauer

According to the Vedic plan, an old man should take the renounced order of sannyasa and completely devote his time and energy to understanding and serving God. We do not become spiritually mature just by growing old.
Arthur Schopenhauer

It is knowledge that is important, not age. If one is not educated properly, he becomes an old fool.
Arthur Schopenhauer

As one becomes more sensuous, his life span decreases. That is the law of nature.
Arthur Schopenhauer

The body never evolves, but the soul within the body evolves and transmigrates from one body to another.
Charles Robert Darwin

Scientists admit that they do not know where things are coming from, but when they see them, they suddenly claim to have invented them.
Charles Robert Darwin

When the effect is there, the cause is finished.
Charles Robert Darwin

These species are all existing now, and they were existing millions of years ago.
Charles Robert Darwin

The soul is the most important factor, and in order to understand the soul, education is required.
Charles Robert Darwin

Mere study of phenomena is childish. Real science means finding the original cause.
Charles Robert Darwin

When we speak of nature, we refer to prakrti. We refer to the universe. There are millions of universes, and Darwin has not studies them, yet he is drawing all these conclusions.
Charles Robert Darwin

The sun was not just created this morning. Within the sun, everything is existing, and if the sun is existing, other things must be existing also.
Charles Robert Darwin

According to the Vedas, the species in nature are fixed at 8,400,000. These may or may not be existing in your neighborhood, but that is not important. The number is fixed, and they are simultaneously existing.
Charles Robert Darwin

Man may or may not survive certain catastrophes; this does not affect the species.
Charles Robert Darwin

It is not that the soul is necessarily progressing from lower to higher forms.
Charles Robert Darwin

According to our mentality at the time of death, we get a certain type of apartment. In any case, the apartment is already there. It is not that I have to create it. The types of apartments are fixed at 8,400,000, and we can enter into any of them. You cannot conceive of a type of apartment beyond this number.
Charles Robert Darwin

Regardless of the amount of scientific research, the conclusions will always be imperfect because the senses are also imperfect.
Charles Robert Darwin

The soul evolves through various species according to his desires.; Material nature supplies the bodies, acting under the orders of God.
Charles Robert Darwin

The human body in particular is meant for understanding God, acting accordingly, and returning home, back to Godhead. If we do not utilize this opportunity, we regress to lower species.
Charles Robert Darwin

Darwin's theory that intellect developed is not scientific. It is merely a suggestion, a guess.
Charles Robert Darwin

All the forms have been existing since the creation.
Charles Robert Darwin

Scientific authority is always relative, just like scientific knowledge. Theories are always being contradicted by other theories.
Charles Robert Darwin

If Krsna does not want us to survive, we will not be able to survive, despite all our attempts.
Charles Robert Darwin

The body is the field of activity, and we are given license to act within this body for some time. That is all. There is no question of survival.
Charles Robert Darwin

Our evidence for a pervious Vedic civilization is sruti, spoken evidence.
Charles Robert Darwin

Even though we do not find evidence of civilization existing on this earth millions of years ago, we cannot conclude that there was no civilization.
Charles Robert Darwin

According to our cultural life, we can go to higher planetary systems, remain where we are, or go back home, back to Godhead. Therefore culture is most important.
Charles Robert Darwin

However great our scientific advancements may be, we can never put an end to birth, old age, disease, and death. The attempt is a waste of time.
Charles Robert Darwin

Material elements, ingredients, do not combine automatically. There must be a living entity who combines them.
Charles Robert Darwin

Energy must belong to the energetic.
Charles Robert Darwin

These scientists are simply searching after bones. What is more important? Valmiki's Ramayana, or a pile of bones?
Charles Robert Darwin

Material scientists are trying to understand phenomena, Krsna's energy, but they are not interested in knowing the source of this energy.
Charles Robert Darwin

They are trying to create something artificial, that's all.
Charles Robert Darwin

It is not possible to go outside the boundaries of Krsna.
Charles Robert Darwin

It is education that is really important, not language.
Thomas Henry Huxley

Animals cannot receive knowledge of God, but a human being, regardless of his language, can understand God if knowledge is properly imparted to him.
Thomas Henry Huxley

When we become Krsna conscious, we become worthy to survive. We no longer have to undergo the process of transmigration.
Thomas Henry Huxley

There is no question of combatting nature. You cannot conquer nature.
Thomas Henry Huxley

The material attempt to conquer or control nature is man disease, his attempt to imitate Krsna. Such imitation is never perfection.
Thomas Henry Huxley

Although the governments are promising people more and more, the people are becoming more miserable.
Thomas Henry Huxley

When you can actually dictate to material nature, then you can survive.
Thomas Henry Huxley

The Sankarites mistakenly think that the individual soul merges with the Supreme and becomes the Supreme, but this is not the case. In all cases, he retains his individuality.
Thomas Henry Huxley

As long as the individual soul acts according to bodily designations, he is not free.
Thomas Henry Huxley

When you act for Krsna, you act in freedom, and when you act for yourself, you are bound by karma.
Thomas Henry Huxley

Nature cannot be rational out of its own accord any more than a piece of wood can become a table without a carpenter.
Thomas Henry Huxley

We don't try to attain knowledge of God by speculating, nor do we try to get knowledge of God from fools, rascals, and philosophers. We take knowledge directly from God Himself.
Thomas Henry Huxley

One who is God conscious is a true mystic.
Henri Bergson

We cannot accept anything manufactured by human beings; we must take our information directly from God, as it is given in Srimad-Bhagavatam, Bhagavad-gita and other scriptures.
Henri Bergson

Oneness means that I agree with God.
Henri Bergson

The ksatriyas, the administrators, have forgotten the real objective of human life. Now they are thinking only of caring for the body, living comfortably, and gratifying their senses. But that is not the real purpose of human civilization.
Henri Bergson

Man has the opportunity afforded by nature to understand the instructions of the Vedas and the spiritual master. Only a suicidal civilization remains in darkness, concerned only with the bodily necessities.
Henri Bergson

Once we understand that we are not the body, our struggle to maintain the body stops.
Henri Bergson

If God interferes with our independence, we are no longer living entities. We become dead stones. Therefore God does not interfere; He gives us full freedom.
Henri Bergson

In this material world, we see that everybody is trying to be happy, but everyone is constantly being frustrated. This is because material happiness ultimately means frustration. This is maya's way of kicking.
Henri Bergson

Yes, the same amount of spiritual energy is everywhere, in the ant and in the elephant.
Henri Bergson

We see the dead body, and this is called perception. The we understand that there is something intangible that is absent, and we call that the soul. This is the process of intuition.
Henri Bergson

The cerebral mechanism is a machine, just like this microphone.
Henri Bergson

Because the living entity has independence, he can misuse that independence and fall down again. A man is not permanently free just because he's released from prison. He can return to prison again. There is no guarantee.
Henri Bergson

Forgetting Krsna, God, people are thinking that they are masters of everything. Many so-called scientists are decrying God, and claiming that they can do everything independently. This attitude is demoniac.
Henri Bergson

If we surrender to Krsna, He will put an end to all the reactions of karma. So we do not have to continue to suffer the reactions of our past activities.
Henri Bergson

Consciousness is also eternal, but it is changing according to the circumstances, association, time, place, and personalities involved. Good association is required, because by it, our consciousness can be changed from material to spiritual.
Henri Bergson

According to your work, your body will be selected. It is not that you select your body. Because you have acted in a certain way, superior authorities select your body according to your activities.
Henri Bergson

According to nature's process, everything is calculated at the time of death.
Henri Bergson

After death, we are completely under natures's control. We cannot dictate. Since people cannot or will not understand this, they conclude that there is no life after death.
Henri Bergson

If we stay on the Brahman platform, there is no degradation. We are trying to do this by engaging ourselves every moment in Krsna consciousness.
Henri Bergson

Realization means arriving at the truth.
Henri Bergson

The forms are changing, but the person within the forms is permanent. When he identifies with the body, he thinks that he is changing.
Henri Bergson

You are immortal by constitution, but you are changing bodies. The progress is creative in the sense that you create your own body or your next body as you desire.
Henri Bergson

Why is there a search for individuality? We are all naturally individuals.
Henri Bergson

We are perpetually individuals, and God is also an individual. It is incorrect to think that by killing individuality, we become one with God. Our individuality is retained.
Henri Bergson

This cosmic manifestation is a temporary creation to give the individual soul a chance to develop his consciousness. If he does not do so, and there is universal annihilation, he must remain in an unconscious position. When there is creation, he again comes to consciousness. This is the cycle that is going on. But God is always there.
Henri Bergson

This is what is called nature's course. First of all, something is created, it develops, stays for a while, leaves some by-products, grows old, dwindles, and finally vanishes. These are the changes that all material things are subject to.
Henri Bergson

If we are trained in our perpetual duty, we can put an end to bodily changes, remain in our eternal, spiritual body, and return home, back to Godhead.
Henri Bergson

It is ultimately up to the spirit soul whether to surrender to Krsna or not. The living entity has the right to accept or reject. If he takes the right path, he progresses, but if he rejects this path, he will regress.
Henri Bergson

Since it's birth, this universe has been increasing in volume, and that is material change. This has nothing to do with the spiritual.
Henri Bergson

We feel isolated because we are individuals.
Henri Bergson

Since God is there, why not communicate with Him? There is no point in communicating with other planets. Other living entities cannot help us. If we communicate with God, Krsna, we automatically understand everything else.
Henri Bergson

If people come to Krsna consciousness, there is no longer isolation because everyone is engaged in the Lord's service.
Henri Bergson

It is a fact that the universe is increasing, but not perpetually. It increases to a certain extent, stops, dwindles, and vanishes.
Henri Bergson

The temporary covering of the body is just like a dream, and as soon as you come to Krsna consciousness, you wake up. When you are awake, the dream has no value.
Henri Bergson

In maya, a man is diseased, and in his delirium, he speaks all kinds of nonsense.
Henri Bergson

There is no difference between a demigod and a man. A demigod is in a better position, that's all.
Henri Bergson

The devotees are not interested in becoming demigods. After all, the demigods are also rotting in this material world.
Henri Bergson

If we are God conscious, we can tell what is real morality.
Henri Bergson

Our process is sadhu, guru, sastra.
Henri Bergson

The scriptures are already there. We have to read them and understand how they have been realized and followed by saintly persons. If there is any difficulty in understanding, we should inquire from the spiritual master. In this way, sadhu, guru, and sastra confirm one another.
Henri Bergson

The father is there. Fact is fact, whether anyone perceives it or not. You may not have seen my father, but you know that I had a father. You do not have to perceive him directly to know that he is a fact.
Samuel Alexander

If we accept the fact that we are eternal, it is very natural to assume that we have an eternal house, an external home.
Samuel Alexander

You cannot create anything. You can only transform.
Samuel Alexander

Invention and discovery practically convey the same idea because nothing is new.
Samuel Alexander

We have often said that philosophy without religion is mental speculation, and religion without philosophy is sentiment. The combination of the two is most desirable.
Samuel Alexander

The living soul is valuable because he is part and parcel of god.
Samuel Alexander

We can understand the presence of god in nature, and we can certainly see His presence there.
Samuel Alexander

If all authorities accept Krsna as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, what further evidence do we need? No further argument is necessary.
Samuel Alexander

The mind is not satisfied with creating something final. The mind by nature is creative. It creates something, then thinks, “Oh, this is not perfect,” and then begins again. That is the mind's business: accepting and rejecting.
Samuel Alexander

Motion means that there must be someone there to push.
Samuel Alexander

Everything has a personal identity and individuality differentiating it from every other thing.
Samuel Alexander

We are occupying space, and since the mind is within us, the mind also occupies space.
Samuel Alexander

At night, when we are dreaming, the subtle body also extends and comes back again.
Samuel Alexander

Of course, the old order changes and yields to the new, but from our past experience we know what will be there.
Samuel Alexander

What evidence do we have that life is coming from inorganic matter? If that is the case, why don't they manufacture life in the laboratory?
Samuel Alexander

In any case, life never comes from matter.
Samuel Alexander

These evolutionists propose that life evolves from the lowest to the highest, but we believe that it begins with the highest, with Visnu.
Samuel Alexander

What evidence do we have of a dead stone giving birth to a man or animals?
Samuel Alexander

There are millions of planets with super-human beings.
Samuel Alexander

When we are within a suit, the suit moves. Bodies are selected according to the soul's desires.
Samuel Alexander

As far as your spiritual development is concerned, you must understand that you are spirit soul. Then you can qualify yourself to return to the spiritual world. There you can associate with the Lord and engage in spiritual activities.
Samuel Alexander

In nature, there are many millions of living entities without business or profession, yet they are living, eating, sleeping, mating, and defending. These things will come automatically. Our endeavor should be for spiritual emancipation.
Samuel Alexander

An animal eats just as man eats, but a man should have sufficiently developed consciousness to understand that what he is eating is given by Krsna.
Samuel Alexander

Theosophists and others think that everything goes up, progresses. They don't even have the common sense to look around them.
Samuel Alexander

For an ant, a bird is a deity; for a bird, a cat is a deity, and so on according to one's position. And if you continue searching, you will find someone who has no one to worship. The ant must worship the bird, the bird worship the cat, and so on, but when we arrive at a person who has no one to worship, we have arrived at God.
Samuel Alexander

Having developed consciousness, the human being has the power of discrimination.
Samuel Alexander

When we don't want to serve God, we are sent to maya to serve her. Man's position as a subordinate remains the same, but in maya he thinks, “I am the master.”
Samuel Alexander

Everyone wants a higher position because everyone is trying to be master. That is the whole problem.
Samuel Alexander

The only business of animals is eating, sleeping, mating, and defending. You may call this the struggle for existence. They are simply trying to live, they have no other ambition. If a man, having attained the human stage, is interested only in these things, he is no better than an animal.
Samuel Alexander

It is the spirit of material enjoyment that brings about the disease of materialistic life.
Samuel Alexander

You can see how everyone is working hard day and night in order to enjoy. Everyone is thinking that he will be happy if he just becomes a millionaire.
Samuel Alexander

If you understand Krsna, you understand everything.
Samuel Alexander

It is incorrect to think of God's deity as one of the deities within this material world. A person who thinks in this way is condemned as a mudha.
Samuel Alexander

The living entity forgets, but God does not.
Samuel Alexander

Just as the sunshine depends on the sun itself, so the entire cosmic manifestation depends on God.
Samuel Alexander

Just as a king talks with his immediate officers and ministers and not with the ordinary man in the street, God personally talks to His devotees but not to the nondevotees or atheists.
Samuel Alexander

The devotees are acting on behalf of God to deliver conditioned souls.
Samuel Alexander

Even when people attain the highest levels of human life wherein their karma is regulated and they possess knowledge and yogic abilities, they still will not surrender to Krsna.
Samuel Alexander

When man is prepared to cooperate with God, he has already attained the highest position.
Samuel Alexander

In a state, a citizen also cooperates in two ways. When he does not break the law, he cooperates as a free citizen, and when he breaks the law, he cooperates by going to prison. He either cooperates by free will or by force.
Samuel Alexander

In the Vaikuntha planets, cooperation is voluntary, and here in this material world, cooperation is forced.
Samuel Alexander

Automatic cooperation is bhakti, and forced cooperation is karma.
Samuel Alexander

Unfortunately, in the material world, no one likes the truth. At least in this age, the majority of people are not truthful.
Samuel Alexander

The hard fact is that truth is not accepted by ordinary men. Truth is truth. Either it is in your mind or not; truth is absolute. Only highly elevated persons can understand the truth. Out of many truthful men, perhaps only one can understand Krsna as He is.
Samuel Alexander

What is really good for man is Krsna bhakti. Nothing else.
Samuel Alexander

Whatever the situation, somehow or other, we must engage our mind in Krsna.
Samuel Alexander

In this material world, everyone is envious.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Until we come to the spiritual platform, there is no possibility of escaping from envy and pride by so-called power.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

These forces that drive men are six in number: speech, the tongue, mind, anger, belly, and genitals. A Gosvami can control these forces.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Due to the urges of the tongue, people have become addicted to drinking, smoking, meat eating and frivolous conversation.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

We should utilize anger at the proper place and in the proper circumstances.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

In the material world, everyone is certainly after power, but the real superman is not after power for himself.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The conclusion is that power for Krsna’s service is very valuable, and power for our own sense gratification is to be condemned.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Power is required for Krsna’s service, not for sense gratification. One who can act according to this principle is a superman.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Even though Christ was crucified, that scene in his life should not be emphasized.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

It is a basic principle in the Vedic religion that we should not be envious of anyone.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Everyone is trying to be a great man, but one’s greatness is accepted when he becomes God realized.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

We become supermen if we engage in the service of the Supreme Person.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

As soon as you become a devout servant of God, many people will follow you. Separate endeavor is not required.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

This material world is created for the conditioned soul, who is put here in order to learn his position as the eternal servant of God.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The point is that anyone can take advantage of the Vedic instructions and go back to Godhead. Unfortunately, the conditioned living entities are so attached to the material world that they repeatedly want to take up material bodies. In this way, history repeats.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Under maya’s influence, we think that we will again return in these same bodies and do the same things.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The living entities combine for some sense gratification, and they get it, be it this husband or that wife. The purpose is the same, though the minute details are different.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

A man is called a rational animal; he has a rational nature and an animal nature.
John Stewart Mill

You can better the world by bringing people to Krsna concsciousness and delivering the message of Krsna to whomever you meet. This is the best social activity you can preform.
John Stewart Mill

The material disease is an impediment to happiness. The disease has to be cured.
John Stewart Mill

Bhagavad-gita is the grand summation of all Vedic literature,
John Stewart Mill

If you try to find out the cause of this and that, and conduct research, that is called darsana, which means “to find the cause.” Therefore philosophy is called darsana-sastra, which means “finding the cause of the cause.”
John Stewart Mill

The ultimate cause has full independence to do anything and everything beyond our calculation. Everything that we see is but an effect of His original push.
John Stewart Mill

We are advised to see through the sastras because we cannot see directly. Since our senses are defective, direct perception has no value.
John Stewart Mill

If the living entity is overly addicted to misuse his freedom, he is punished. This punishment is a consequence of the living entity’s desire.
John Stewart Mill

Evil is not desired by God, yet it is created because it is necessary.
John Stewart Mill

There is no question of fighting with God. He is omnipotent.
John Stewart Mill

Whenever there is a fight between the demons and the demigods, God takes the side of the demigods.
John Stewart Mill

A demon is one who rejects God’s rules, and a demigod is one who accepts them.
John Stewart Mill

There is no question of God struggling. He doesn’t even have to fight. His various agents can easily enough kill all the evil elements in the world.
John Stewart Mill

In all circumstances, God is good and worshipable. It is not that we subject God to our judgement, saying, “Oh yes, You are good, but not so good.” Fools think, “I am better than God. I can create my own God.” God creates us; we cannot create God.
John Stewart Mill

You can neither defy nor deny real authority. We are presenting our Krsna consciousness movement on this principle.
John Stewart Mill

Morality means abiding by the orders of God. That is real morality. Other moralities are manufactured, and they differ in different countries.
John Stewart Mill

It is our duty to receive instructions from higher personalities. If we do not, how can we know our duty?
John Stewart Mill

In any case, we must accept some authority, be it Christ or Krsna. Our duty lies in following the orders of the higher authority.
John Stewart Mill

We have daily experience of how the soul continues, even though the body changes.
John Stewart Mill

First of all, we must understand what we are. If we do not, we will surely be wrongly directed. We will take care of the body just as a foolish man might take care of a bird cage, and neglect the bird within it.
John Stewart Mill

Krsna came and gave Arjuna instructions, and those instructions are recorded.
John Stewart Mill

One who is not God conscious is necessarily bad, and one who is God conscious is good.
John Stewart Mill

When you have quality, the quantity naturally decreases.
John Stewart Mill

Generally, since conditioned souls are fools, the pleasure that is most popular is the one followed by the greatest number of fools.
John Stewart Mill

This Krsna consciousness movement, for instance, cannot be understood by the masses. Only a few who are fortunate can understand.
John Stewart Mill

A man who is wise does not want pleasure that lasts only a few minutes but pleasure that continues perpetually.
John Stewart Mill

The pleasures of the body are transient and are sought by rascals. If one identifies with the body, he naturally seeks bodily pleasure.
John Stewart Mill

Even if one falls down from Krsna consciousness, he still gains from what little he has experienced. On the other hand, if one works according to the varnasrama dharma but does not take to devotional service. All his labors go in vain.
John Stewart Mill

We may desire something that is harmful for us, and not desire the good.
John Stewart Mill

It is not that science is above metaphysics; rather, real scientific knowledge is metaphysical.
August Comte

God is the ultimate controller of everything, and although He may act through different agents, the ultimate decision is given by Him.
August Comte

Unless we know the end, all our theorizing will not help. All their humanitarian work will never be successful because they have missed the main point: Krsna.
August Comte

Human intelligence is meant for searching out the ultimate source of everything. It is useless to try to improve man’s material situation.
August Comte

No one can become independent by atheistic speculation.
August Comte

One who does not or cannot know says, “It doesn’t matter,” but if you are serious about knowledge, it matters.
August Comte

Higher knowledge has no value for an ordinary man.
August Comte

If you try to force uniformity, you will create dissatisfaction.
August Comte

This is a natural distinction between men and women. How can it be changed?
August Comte

Women should never be given independence, but they should be given protection.
August Comte

A man is meant to work hard, and a woman is meant to give comfort and love in the home.
August Comte

Generally, women are interested in a comfortable home life. That is their nature. They are not spiritually very advanced or interested,
August Comte

Human life is meant for progressing spiritually, and people must first of all know that the spirit soul is at the basis even of material life. The body is built upon the soul.
August Comte

Worship is reserved for God only, and is not meant for others.
August Comte