U.G. Krishnamurti Quotes

“Those who are marching into the battlefield and are ready to be killed today in the name of democracy, in the name of freedom, in the name of communism, are no different from those who threw themselves to the lions in the arenas. The Romans watched that fun with great joy. How are we different from them? Not a bit. We love it. To kill and to be killed is the foundation of our culture.”
― U.G. Krishnamurti, U.G. Krishnamurti: Truth : There is no such thing as truth…

“The body is not interested in your perceptions. It is not interested in learning anything from you or knowing anything from you. All the intelligence that is necessary for this living organism is already there. Our attempts to teach this body, or make it function differently from the way it is programmed by nature, are what are responsible for the battle that is going on. There is a battle between what is put in by culture and what is inherent there in the body.”
― U.G. Krishnamurti, U.G. Krishnamurti: Truth : There is no such thing as truth…

“Life is simply a process of stimulus and response; and stimulus and response are one unitary movement.”
― U.G. Krishnamurti, U.G. Krishnamurti: Truth : There is no such thing as truth…

“When once we are freed from the goal [of solving problems], the question of whether it is a positive approach or a negative approach does not even arise.”
― U.G. Krishnamurti, U.G. Krishnamurti: Truth : There is no such thing as truth…