Top 500 Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “Peace is of the heart, not of the mind. To know peace you have to find out what beauty is.”

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202. “When the mind goes beyond the thought of ‘the me,’ the experiencer, the observer, the thinker, then there is a possibility of a happiness that is incorruptible.”

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203. “The very attention given to finding out if the mind can be completely quiet is quietness.”

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204. “It is astonishingly beautiful and interesting, how thought is absent when you have an insight. Thought cannot have an insight.”

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205. “There are two kinds of freedom: one is the freedom from something, which is a reaction; and the other is not a reaction, it is “being free.””

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206. “We never see anything completely. We never see a tree, we see the tree through the image that we have of it, the concept of that tree; but the concept, the knowledge, the experience, is entirely different from the actual tree.”

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207. “Control exists only when there is action of will, positively or negatively. Will is resistance. When the mind is learning, there is no resistance.”

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208. “It seems to me that the real problem is the mind itself, and not the problem which the mind has created and tries to solve.”

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209. “When you identify yourself with a group of people or a set of ideas, aren’t you separating yourself?”

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210. “Silence is difficult and arduous, it is not to be played with.”

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211. “The bliss of truth comes when the mind is not occupied with its own activities and struggles.”

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212. “Only when the mind is completely alone can it know what is beauty, and not in any other state.”

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213. “If I do not understand myself, the whole complexity of myself, I have no basis for thinking.”

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214. “Governments want efficient technicians, not human beings, because human beings become dangerous to governments – and to organized religions as well. That is why governments and religious organizations seek to control education.”

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215. “You have been overcome; and whether you are overcome by envy or by a so-called noble influence, you are still a slave, you are not free.”

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216. “If you are lucky and work very hard, you may someday get to experience freedom from the known.”

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217. “My only concern is to set men absolutely, unconditionally free.”

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218. “Love is not of the mind, it is not in the net of thought, it cannot be sought out, cultivated, cherished; it is there when the mind is silent and the heart is empty of the things of the mind.”

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219. “A mind that is innocent means a mind that is incapable of being hurt. Because it is incapable of being hurt, it will not hurt another.”

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220. “What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.”

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221. “Throughout life, from childhood, from school until we die, we are taught to compare ourselves with another; yet when I compare myself with another I am destroying myself.”

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222. “Did you ever sit quietly with your back straight, not moving, just only cherishing the beauty of silence?”

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223. “It is intelligence that brings order, not discipline.”

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224. “The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is.”

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225. “Our conflict is in relationship, at all levels of our existence; and the understanding of this relationship, completely and extensively, is the only real problem that each one has.”

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226. “Discipline is necessary to curb the mind, otherwise there is no peace.”

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227. “The becoming still can never be the being still; only with the death of becoming is there being.”

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228. “There is no such thing as living alone, for all living is relationship; but to live without direct relationship demands high intelligence, a swifter and greater awareness for self-discovery.”

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229. “Those who play a safe game die very safely.”

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230. “Thought comes to an end. Then there is that sense of absolute silence in the brain. All the movement of thought has ended.”

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231. “Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery.”

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232. “The intellect is not the means of creation, and creation does not take place through the functioning of the intellect; on the contrary, there is creation when the intellect is silent.”

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233. “Surely, life is not merely a job, an occupation; life is something extraordinarily wide and profound, it is a great mystery, a vast realm in which we function as human beings.”

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234. “The fact is one thing and the idea about the fact is another.”

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235. “Thought nourishes, sustains and gives continuity to fear and pleasure.”

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236. “The significance of life is living.”

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237. “When you once see something as false which you have accepted as true, as natural, as human, then you can never go back to it.”

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238. “There is not first understanding and then action. When you understand, that very understanding is action.”

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239. “I have only one purpose: to make people free, to urge them towards freedom, to help them to break away from all limitations, for that alone will give them eternal happiness, will give them the unconditional realization of Self.”

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240. “And the point is, is it possible for the mind to be totally free from suffering and yet not become indifferent, callous, irresponsible, but to have that passion, the intensity, the energy that freedom brings, freedom from suffering.”

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241. “You may be ignorant of all the books in the world, and I hope you are, of all the latest theories, but that is not ignorance.”

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242. “What sex gives you momentarily is the total abandonment of yourself, then you are back again with your turmoil, so you want a repetition over and over again of that state in which there is no worry, no problem, no self.”

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243. “The end is the beginning of all things, Suppressed and hidden, Awaiting to be released through the rhythm Of pain and pleasure.”

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244. “Life is both pleasure and pain, is it not? But why should we cling to pleasure and avoid pain? Why not merely live with both? If you cling to pleasure what happens? You get attached, do you not?”

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245. “Freedom comes with self-knowledge, when the mind goes above and beyond the hindrances it has created for itself.”

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246. “But inwardly we are as corrupt as the person who sits in an office and plans war-because, we want to be somebody in the family, in a group, in society, in the nation.”

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247. “We are very defensive, and therefore aggressive, when we hold on to a particular belief, a dogmas, or when we worship our particular nationality, with the rag that is called the flag.”

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248. “Self-knowledge is only from moment to moment, and therefore there is a creative happiness from moment to moment.”

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249. “Only in relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction, and certainly not in isolation.”

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250. “To die every day to every problem, every pleasure, and not carry over any problem at all; so the mind remains tremendously attentive, active, clear.”

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