Vedanta is the most impressive metaphysics the human mind has conceived.

In England if something goes wrong--say, if one finds a skunk in the garden--he writes to the family solicitor, who proceeds to take the proper measures; whereas in America, you telephone the fire department. Each satisfies a characteristic need; in the English, love of order and legalistic procedure; and here in America, what you like is something vivid, and red, and swift.

What the learned world tends to offer is one second-hand scrap of information illustrating ideas derived from another second-hand scrap of information. The second-handedness of the learned world is the secret of its mediocrity.

God is in the world, or nowhere, creating continually in us and around us. Insofar as man partakes of this creative process does he partake of the divine, of God, and that participation is his immortality.

...the only simplicity to be trusted is the simplicity to be found on the far side of complexity.

The fixed person for the fixed duties who in older societies was such a godsend, in future will be a public danger.

It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true.