U.G. Krishnamurti Quotes

Nature is interested in only two things--to survive and to reproduce one like itself. Anything you superimpose on that, all the cultural input, is responsible for the boredom of man.

U.G. Krishnamurti

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• Nature is interested in only two things--to survive and to reproduce one like itself. Anything you superimpose on that, all the cultural input, is responsible for the boredom of man.

  

  U.G. Krishnamurti
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  • Nature
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