Rajneesh Quotes

Spirituality is not a question of morality, it is a question of vision. Spirituality is not the practising of virtues - because if you practise a virtue it is no longer a virtue. A practised virtue is a dead thing, a dead weight. Virtue is virtue only when it is spontaneous; virtue is virtue only when it is natural, unpractised - when it comes out of your vision, out of your awareness, out of your understanding.

Deliberate virtue is never worth much: The virtue of feeling or habit is the thing.

The great man does not think beforehand of his words that they may be sincere, nor of his actions that they may be resolute- he simply speaks and does what is right.

You can't have integrity for breakfast, but try and keep it because it is perhaps the single most important word that defines not just writers but all human beings.

You know, I find people with great honesty, bodily, physical honesty, who sit just the way they like to sit, and walk the way they like to walk, and don't come into a room all pumped up, I find them elegant.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.

Underlying all the explanations, intellectual constructions and self-delusions, we can still know a good man when we see one.

He who does not need to lie is proud of not being a liar.

John McCain is never the kind of person that lies to himself. When he does something wrong he knows it and deals with it.... One of the few great men.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

If you don't have integrity, don't be in cinema.

I'm very honest, and I show that.

Somebody like CM Punk, who stands up and says he's completely sober - he doesn't even take a drink of champagne in a toast because that's just not him - he's a man that's completely full of integrity; you've got to respect that.

The virtuous will be sure to speak uprightly; but those whose speech is upright may not be virtuous.

There never was a liar that had not a spot in him where he could not help admiring truth.

Fewer possess virtue, than those who wish us to believe that they possess it.

There is no greater virtue than honesty.

If we are honest and fair, then we are known by that. If we are not, alas, we are known by that as well. What we want to do is do right, but you have to say it, you have to show it, and not stop.

Virtue is not photogenic.

The badge of honesty is simplicity.

Virtue, once bragged about, once you pride yourself upon it, ceases to be such.

A good heart cannot lye

Honest and courageous people have very little to say about either their courage or their honesty. The sun has no need to boast of his brightness, nor the moon of her effulgence.

A real man is he whose goodness is a part of himself.