Controversial Sayings
1,571 sayings found from the Early Modern era
The world is burning in the fire of desire, greed, attachment, and ego.
He who speaks truth, lives truth, and meditates on truth, he alone is pure.
Caste has no power in the hereafter; the only judge is truth.
The one who serves others, serves God.
Only by His Grace, can one be saved.
The mind is like a wild elephant; it must be tamed by the Guru's Word.
Without good deeds, there is no devotion.
To know the mighty works of God, to comprehend His wisdom and majesty and power; to appreciate, in degree, the wonderful workings of His laws, surely all this must be a pleasing and acceptable mode of worship to the Most High, to whom ignorance canno…
Yet because the novelty of the undertaking, which I knew to be contrary to the accepted views of the common people, might be regarded as absurd, I long hesitated.
Indeed, I am aware that a philosopher's thoughts are far removed from the judgment of the multitude, for his aim is to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God.
For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions from a careful and skillful study of the observations.
For the universe, wrought for us by a supremely good and orderly Creator, is from the very start constructed with the very best and most beautiful design.
The celestial sphere is finite and spherical.
It is not the earth that is the center of the universe, but the sun.
The earth, too, has other motions than that of the daily rotation.
Therefore, when I perceived that these and similar doubts arose concerning the order of the parts of the universe and the symmetry of its structure, I began to be vexed that no more definite explanation of the movements of the world machine, created …
In the middle of all sits the Sun enthroned. In this most beautiful temple, could we place this luminary in any better position from which he can illuminate the whole at once?
For the motion of the earth is a fact, and the apparent change of position of the fixed stars is due to the earth's motion and not to any motion of the stars themselves.
Thus, the sun, although it is the center of the world, is not the center of the universe.
Therefore, I think that the earth is not the center of the universe, but rather the sun.