My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.
People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.
And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, they cannot exist except in a certain kind of natural environment.
The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.
There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.
You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.
Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.
Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.
The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other.
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
