A science which hesitates to forget its founders is lost.

The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.

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

The learned tradition is not concerned with truth, but with the learned adjustment of learned statements of antecedent learned people.

Do not teach too many subjects and what you teach, teach thoroughly.

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. Operations of thought are cavalry charges in a battle - they are limited in number, they require fresh horses, and must only be made at decisive moments.