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.

Table of contents:

• Preface
  1. Preface...
• The Classics
  1. Homer
  2. Socrates
  3. Plato
  4. Aristotle
  5. Virgil
• The Europeans
  1. Dante
• The British
  1. Shakespeare
  2. Milton
  3. William Blake
  4. Shelley
  5. Keats
  6. Thomas Carlyle
• The Americans
  1. Ralph Waldo Emerson
  2. Walt Whitman
  3. Emily Dickinson
  4. Robert Frost
• Pearls Of Wisdom From The West-Soulful Commentaries
  1. "What Is A Friend?...
  2. "Wicked Men Obey From Fear; Good Men,...
  3. "Poverty Is The Parent Of Revolution And...
  4. "Some Men Are Just As Firmly Convinced...
  5. "If The Thing Believed Is Incredible, ...
  6. "He Cannot Have God For His Father...
  7. "The Man Who Does Not Know What...
  8. "To Choose Time Is To Save Time....
  9. "A Wise Man Will Make More Opportunities...
  10. "A Healthy Body Is The Guest-Chamber Of...
  11. "Reading Makes A Full Man, Conference...
  12. "I Take All Knowledge To Be My...
  13. "You Are Not In Charge Of The...
  14. "Love Seeketh Not Itself To Please, ...
  15. "I Was Angry With My Friend:...
  16. "A Truth That Is Told With Bad...
  17. "The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell....
  18. "Art Is The Tree Of Life....
  19. "Love In France Is A Comedy; In...
  20. Mr....
  21. "I Am Travelling Too Much And I...
  22. "Music Is The Fourth Great Material Want...
  23. "So Free We Seem, ...
  24. "Good To Forgive....
  25. "Who Knows Most, Doubts Most....
  26. "Nor Ear Can Hear Nor Tongue Can...
  27. "I Awoke One Morning And Found Myself...
  28. "Man!...
  29. "If Ever Man Was God Or God...
  30. "Blessed Is He Who Has Found His...
  31. "I Am Not Ashamed To Confess That...
  32. The Sole Function Of Art Is To...
  33. "The Happiest Man Is He Who Can...
  34. Many Writers Have Seen The Signature Of...
  35. Darwin Says:...
  36. "I Think, Therefore I Am....
  37. "If I Can Stop One Heart From...
  38. Dumas Says:...
  39. "Life Seems To Be Divided Into Two...
  40. Einstein Says:...
  41. "Imagination Is More Important Than Knowledge....
  42. "Our Deeds Still Travel With Us From...
  43. "The Things Taught In Schools And Colleges...
  44. "Ideas Must Work Through The Brains And...
  45. "No Great Man Ever Complains Of Want...
  46. "To Be Great Is To Be Misunderstood....
  47. "An Institution Is The Lengthened Shadow Of...
  48. "Jesus Is The Most Perfect Of All...
  49. "Make Yourself Necessary To Somebody....
  50. "It Is Not Possible To Live Pleasantly...
  51. "Help Yourself And Heaven Will Help You....
  52. "It Is Good To Be Charitable-But To...
  53. "It Is Human Nature To Think Wisely...
  54. "After Thirty Years Of Research Into The...
  55. Dear Robert Frost, ...
  56. "Two Roads Diverged In A Wood, ...
  57. "We Are Never Deceived;...
  58. "Light-More Light....
  59. "Science And Art Belong To The Whole...
  60. "The History Of The World Is None...
  61. "I Slept And Dreamed That Life Was...
  62. "Poets, The First Instructors Of Mankind....
  63. "My Tastes Are Aristocratic; My Actions Are...
  64. "After Silence, That Which Comes Nearest...
  65. "Ignorance Is Vincible....
  66. "A Man'S Worst Difficulties Begin When He...
  67. "The Best Use Of Life Is To...
  68. "Be Not Afraid Of Life....
  69. "See Everything....
  70. "I Am Glad That He Thanks God...
  71. The Poet-Bird In Keats, Divinely Intoxicated,...
  72. "Beauty Is Truth, Truth Beauty....
  73. "A Thing Of Beauty Is A Joy...
  74. Keats' Address To Art, "Thou Foster-Child...
  75. "My Greatest Elevations Of Soul Every Time...
  76. "Oh, East Is East, And...
  77. "They Will Come Back, Come Back...
  78. "Canadians Use English For Literature, ...
  79. "Adversity Reminds Men Of Religion....
  80. "Our Minds Are Not Made As Large...
  81. "We Judge Ourselves By What We Feel...
  82. "Tell Me Not, In Mournful Numbers,...
  83. "It Lies Not In Our Power To...
  84. "The Childhood Shows The Man, ...
  85. "Better To Reign In Hell Than Serve...
  86. "To Be Weak Is Miserable, ...
  87. "What Is Evil?...
  88. "What Is It: Is Man Only A...
  89. "The Whole Wide World Is A Cathedral....
  90. "Self-Conquest Is The Greatest Of Victories....
  91. "We Are Bound To Our Bodies Like...
  92. "Love: A Mental Disease....
  93. "We Must Ask Of God Only Such...
  94. Rabelais Said:...
  95. "Conscience Is The Voice Of The Soul,...
  96. "In All Affairs It'S A Healthy Thing,...
  97. "Mysticism Is Not A Religion, But...
  98. "In The Whole World There Is No...
  99. "Let Us Dispense With The Emptiness Of...
  100. "What Is Done Can'T Be Undone....
  101. "Brevity Is The Soul Of Wit....
  102. Poor God, Unillumined Men Always Take...
  103. George Bernard Shaw Has Warned Us, ...
  104. "Our Sweetest Songs Are Those That Tell...
  105. "The Desire Of The Moth For The...
  106. "I Am Not An Athenian, Or...
  107. "Time Is That Which Man Always Tries...
  108. "This Survival Of The Fittest....
  109. "Nature Abhors A Vacuum....
  110. "Man Is A Social Animal....
  111. "Desire Nothing For Yourself Which You Do...
  112. "All Atheists Are Rascals, And All...
  113. "Thy Need Is Yet Greater Than Mine....
  114. "My Strength Is As The Strength Of...
  115. "'tis Better To Have Loved And Lost...
  116. "A Life Of Nothing'S Nothing Worth, ...
  117. "Rome Was Not Built In A Day....
  118. "Whoever Serves His Country Well Has No...
  119. "All The Known World, Excepting Only...
  120. "Nature Has Always Had More Force Than...
  121. "Christians Have Been The Most Intolerant Of...
  122. "If God Is Not In Us, ...
  123. "Behold!...
  124. "Do I Contradict Myself?...
  125. "I Say The Whole Earth And All...
  126. "I Celebrate Myself....
  127. "All Americans Lecture....
  128. "Minds That Have Nothing To Confer...
  129. "The Gods Approve...
  130. "The World Is Too Much With Us;...
• Section 7
  1. Transcendental Poetry