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

Each human being is a more complex structure than any social system to which he belongs.

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

The worst that happened to men of science was that Galileo suffered an honorable detention and a mild reproof, before dying peacefully in his bed.

Every intellectual revolution which has ever stirred humanity into greatness has been a passionate protest against inert ideas. Then, alas, with pathetic ignorance of human psychology, it has proceeded by some educational scheme to bind humanity afresh with inert ideas of its own fashioning.

I consider Christian theology to be one of the great disasters of the human race.

An open mind is all very well in its way, but it ought not to be so open that there is no keeping anything in or out of it.