More from Rabindranath Tagore

  1. Man's abiding happiness is not in getting anything but in giving himself up to what is greater than himself, to ideas which are larger than…
  2. Men are cruel, but Man is kind.
  3. Man is immortal; therefore he must die endlessly. For life is a creative idea; it can only find itself in changing forms.
  4. Music fills the infinite between two souls. This has been muffled by the mist of our daily habits.
  5. Man has a fund of emotional energy which is not all occupied with his self-preservation. This surplus seeks its outlet in the creation of a…
  6. Music is the purest form of art... therefore true poets, they who are seers, seek to express the universe in terms of music... The singer h…
  7. Man goes into the noisy crowd to drown his own clamour of silence.
  8. Nationality is respectable only when it is on the defence, when it is waging wars of liberation it is sacred; when those of domination it i…

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