I always feel that I have two duties to perform with a parting guest: one, to see that he doesn't forget anything that is his; the other, to see that he doesn't take anything that is mine.

Science repudiates philosophy. In other words, it has never cared to justify its truth or explain its meaning.

It is a safe rule to apply that, when a mathematical or philosophical author writes with a misty profundity, he is talking nonsense.

It belongs to the self-respect of intellect to pursue every tangle of thought to its final unravelment.

Our rate of progress is such that an individual human being, of ordinary length of life, will be called on to face novel situations which find no parallel in his past. The fixed person, for the fixed duties, who, in older societies was such a godsend, in the future will be a public danger.

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.

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