If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.

I am certain and have always stressed that the destination of mankind is to become more and more humane. The ideal of humanity has to be revived.

I have given up the ambition to be a great scholar. I want to be more- simply a human. . . . We are not true humans, but beings who live by a civilization inherited from the past, that keeps us hostage, that confines us. No freedom of movement. Nothing. Everything in us is killed by our calculations for our future, by our social position and cast. You see, I am not happy-yet I am happy. I suffer, but that is part of life. I live, I don't care about my existence, and that is the beginning of wisdom.

Most men are scantily nourished on a modicum of happiness and a number of empty thoughts which life lays on their plates. They are kept in the road of life through stern necessity by elemental duties which they cannot avoid.

That's my private ant. You're liable to break its legs.

The spirit of the age is filled with the disdain for thinking.

Reverence for life brings us into a spiritual relation with the world which is independent of all knowledge of the universe.