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Quotes from Freedom from the Known — Jiddu Krishnamurti

1895–1986 India

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16 quotes

To understand yourself is the beginning of wisdom.

Freedom from the Known (1969)

You cannot depend upon anybody. There is no guide, no teacher, no authority. There is only you — your relationship with others and with the world — there is nothing else.

Freedom from the Known (1969)

We are afraid of the known and afraid of the unknown.

Freedom from the Known (1969)

That is the first thing to learn — not to seek.

Freedom from the Known (1969)

We are a strange mixture of hate, fear and gentleness; we are both violence and peace.

Freedom from the Known (1969)

Each one of us is the storehouse of all the past. The individual is the human who is all mankind.

Freedom from the Known (1969)

The human being is not a local entity. He is everywhere.

Freedom from the Known (1969)

For centuries we have been spoon-fed by our teachers, by our authorities, by our books, our saints.

Freedom from the Known (1969)

The individual is the little conditioned, miserable, frustrated entity, satisfied with his little gods and his little traditions, whereas a human being is concerned with the total welfare, the total misery and total confusion of the world.

Freedom from the Known (1969)

Violence is not merely killing another. It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person, when we obey because there is fear.

Freedom from the Known (1969)

Man has throughout the ages been seeking something beyond himself, beyond material welfare — something we call truth or God or reality, a timeless state — something that cannot be disturbed by circumstances, by thought or by human corruption.

Freedom from the Known (1969)

We are the result of all kinds of influences and there is nothing new in us, nothing that we have discovered for ourselves; nothing original, pristine, clear.

Freedom from the Known (1969)

Thought is matter as much as the floor, the wall, the telephone, are matter. Energy functioning in a pattern becomes matter. That is all life is … Matter and energy are interrelated.

Freedom from the Known (1969)

The world accepts and follows the traditional approach. The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another; we mechanically follow somebody who will assure us a comfortable spiritual life.

Freedom from the Known (1969)

It is important to understand from the very beginning that I am not formulating any philosophy or any theological structure of ideas or theological concepts. It seems to me that all ideologies are utterly idiotic.

Freedom from the Known (1969)

Violence is much more subtle, much deeper, and we are inquiring into the very depths of violence.
When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent.

Freedom from the Known (1969)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Jiddu Krishnamurti (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.