(193 quotes found)
“Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.”
Adolf Hitler
“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
Jorge Luis Borges
“Someone who has set out in the vehicle of a Bodhisattva should decide that `I must lead all the beings to nirvana, into that realm of nirvana which leaves nothing behind'. What is this realm of nirvana which leaves nothing behind ?”
Buddha
“A wife is a gift bestowed upon man to reconcile him to the loss of paradise”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.”
John Lancaster Spalding
“Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.”
Karl Popper
“He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end”
William Penn
“Children are the keys of paradise.”
Eric Hoffer
“Not one or two, Subhuti, not one or two, but all the beings - men, women, animals, birds, trees, rocks. All the beings in the world. One should create such a determination that `I will lead all of them into nirvana'.”
“Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.”
Laurie Anderson
