Swami Sivananda Quotes

It can't be Nature, for it is not sense.

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

Eyesight should learn from reason.

In what we really understand, we reason but little.

Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

Our reason arises, at the very least, from this twofold lesson of sensuous revelations and human testimonies.

Common sense is not so common.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

Some like to understand what they believe in. Others like to believe in what they understand.

Intuition does not denote something contrary to reason, but something outside of the province of reason.

Knowledge is awareness, and to it there are many paths, not all of them paved with logic.

The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.

The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.

Instinct is the nose of the mind.

When we examine the opinions of men, we find that nothing is more uncommon than common sense; or, in other words, they lack judgment to discover plain truths or to reject absurdities and palpable contradictions.

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

The farther reason looks the greater is the haze in which it loses itself.

There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind

Common sense is the foundation of all authorities, of the laws themselves, and of their construction

A form of reason that in some way wished to strip itself of beauty would be diminished; it would be a blinded reason.

Since a thing cannot be known directly or totally, one can only attune to it, with greater or lesser degrees of intimacy.