It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.

The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanation of complex facts... Seek simplicity and distrust it.

Peace is self-control at its widest-at the width where the "self" has been lost, and interest has been transferred to coordinations wider than personality.

In the history of the world the prize has not gone to those species which specialized in methods of violence, or even in defensive armor. In fact, nature began with producing animals encased in hard shells for defense against the ill of life. But smaller animals, without external armor, warm-blooded, sensitive, alert, have cleared those monsters off the face of the earth.

Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise

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

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.