Where principles and heart stand in conflict with each other, let us make the law of the spirit free from the law of principles.

It is the fate of every truth to be an object of ridicule when it is first acclaimed.

As we acquire knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.

The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.

Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility with regard to everything that has life.

Reincarnation contains a most comforting explanation of reality by means of which Indian thought surmounts difficulties which baffle the thinkers of Europe.

I decided that I would make my life my argument.