Philosopher-Thinkers: The Power-Towers Of The Mind And Poet-Seers: The Fragrance-Hours Of The Heart In The West

by Sri Chinmoy

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First published by Agni Press in 1998.
Reprinted with permission of Sri Chinmoy.

• Preface
  • Preface...
• The Classics
  • Homer
  • Socrates
  • Plato
  • Aristotle
  • Virgil
• The Europeans
  • Dante
• The British
  • Shakespeare
  • Milton
  • William Blake
  • Shelley
  • Keats
  • Thomas Carlyle
• The Americans
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Walt Whitman
  • Emily Dickinson
  • Robert Frost
• Pearls Of Wisdom From The West-Soulful Commentaries
  • "What Is A Friend?...
  • "Wicked Men Obey From Fear; Good Men,...
  • "Poverty Is The Parent Of Revolution And...
  • "Some Men Are Just As Firmly Convinced...
  • "If The Thing Believed Is Incredible, ...
  • "He Cannot Have God For His Father...
  • "The Man Who Does Not Know What...
  • "To Choose Time Is To Save Time....
  • "A Wise Man Will Make More Opportunities...
  • "A Healthy Body Is The Guest-Chamber Of...
  • "Reading Makes A Full Man, Conference...
  • "I Take All Knowledge To Be My...
  • "You Are Not In Charge Of The...
  • "Love Seeketh Not Itself To Please, ...
  • "I Was Angry With My Friend:...
  • "A Truth That Is Told With Bad...
  • "The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell....
  • "Art Is The Tree Of Life....
  • "Love In France Is A Comedy; In...
  • Mr....
  • "I Am Travelling Too Much And I...
  • "Music Is The Fourth Great Material Want...
  • "So Free We Seem, ...
  • "Good To Forgive....
  • "Who Knows Most, Doubts Most....
  • "Nor Ear Can Hear Nor Tongue Can...
  • "I Awoke One Morning And Found Myself...
  • "Man!...
  • "If Ever Man Was God Or God...
  • "Blessed Is He Who Has Found His...
  • "I Am Not Ashamed To Confess That...
  • The Sole Function Of Art Is To...
  • "The Happiest Man Is He Who Can...
  • Many Writers Have Seen The Signature Of...
  • Darwin Says:...
  • "I Think, Therefore I Am....
  • "If I Can Stop One Heart From...
  • Dumas Says:...
  • "Life Seems To Be Divided Into Two...
  • Einstein Says:...
  • "Imagination Is More Important Than Knowledge....
  • "Our Deeds Still Travel With Us From...
  • "The Things Taught In Schools And Colleges...
  • "Ideas Must Work Through The Brains And...
  • "No Great Man Ever Complains Of Want...
  • "To Be Great Is To Be Misunderstood....
  • "An Institution Is The Lengthened Shadow Of...
  • "Jesus Is The Most Perfect Of All...
  • "Make Yourself Necessary To Somebody....
  • "It Is Not Possible To Live Pleasantly...
  • "Help Yourself And Heaven Will Help You....
  • "It Is Good To Be Charitable-But To...
  • "It Is Human Nature To Think Wisely...
  • "After Thirty Years Of Research Into The...
  • Dear Robert Frost, ...
  • "Two Roads Diverged In A Wood, ...
  • "We Are Never Deceived;...
  • "Light-More Light....
  • "Science And Art Belong To The Whole...
  • "The History Of The World Is None...
  • "I Slept And Dreamed That Life Was...
  • "Poets, The First Instructors Of Mankind....
  • "My Tastes Are Aristocratic; My Actions Are...
  • "After Silence, That Which Comes Nearest...
  • "Ignorance Is Vincible....
  • "A Man'S Worst Difficulties Begin When He...
  • "The Best Use Of Life Is To...
  • "Be Not Afraid Of Life....
  • "See Everything....
  • "I Am Glad That He Thanks God...
  • The Poet-Bird In Keats, Divinely Intoxicated,...
  • "Beauty Is Truth, Truth Beauty....
  • "A Thing Of Beauty Is A Joy...
  • Keats' Address To Art, "Thou Foster-Child...
  • "My Greatest Elevations Of Soul Every Time...
  • "Oh, East Is East, And...
  • "They Will Come Back, Come Back...
  • "Canadians Use English For Literature, ...
  • "Adversity Reminds Men Of Religion....
  • "Our Minds Are Not Made As Large...
  • "We Judge Ourselves By What We Feel...
  • "Tell Me Not, In Mournful Numbers,...
  • "It Lies Not In Our Power To...
  • "The Childhood Shows The Man, ...
  • "Better To Reign In Hell Than Serve...
  • "To Be Weak Is Miserable, ...
  • "What Is Evil?...
  • "What Is It: Is Man Only A...
  • "The Whole Wide World Is A Cathedral....
  • "Self-Conquest Is The Greatest Of Victories....
  • "We Are Bound To Our Bodies Like...
  • "Love: A Mental Disease....
  • "We Must Ask Of God Only Such...
  • Rabelais Said:...
  • "Conscience Is The Voice Of The Soul,...
  • "In All Affairs It'S A Healthy Thing,...
  • "Mysticism Is Not A Religion, But...
  • "In The Whole World There Is No...
  • "Let Us Dispense With The Emptiness Of...
  • "What Is Done Can'T Be Undone....
  • "Brevity Is The Soul Of Wit....
  • Poor God, Unillumined Men Always Take...
  • George Bernard Shaw Has Warned Us, ...
  • "Our Sweetest Songs Are Those That Tell...
  • "The Desire Of The Moth For The...
  • "I Am Not An Athenian, Or...
  • "Time Is That Which Man Always Tries...
  • "This Survival Of The Fittest....
  • "Nature Abhors A Vacuum....
  • "Man Is A Social Animal....
  • "Desire Nothing For Yourself Which You Do...
  • "All Atheists Are Rascals, And All...
  • "Thy Need Is Yet Greater Than Mine....
  • "My Strength Is As The Strength Of...
  • "'tis Better To Have Loved And Lost...
  • "A Life Of Nothing'S Nothing Worth, ...
  • "Rome Was Not Built In A Day....
  • "Whoever Serves His Country Well Has No...
  • "All The Known World, Excepting Only...
  • "Nature Has Always Had More Force Than...
  • "Christians Have Been The Most Intolerant Of...
  • "If God Is Not In Us, ...
  • "Behold!...
  • "Do I Contradict Myself?...
  • "I Say The Whole Earth And All...
  • "I Celebrate Myself....
  • "All Americans Lecture....
  • "Minds That Have Nothing To Confer...
  • "The Gods Approve...
  • "The World Is Too Much With Us;...
• Section 7
  • Transcendental Poetry