It does not matter what men say in words, so long as their activities are controlled by settled instincts. The words may ultimately destroy the instincts; but until this has occurred, words do not count.

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

Philosophy is the self-correction by consciousness of its own initial excess of subjectivity.

Culture is activity of thought, and receptiveness to beauty and humane feeling. Scraps of information have nothing to do with it. A merely well informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth.

Great dreamers' dreams are never fulfilled, they are always transcended.

There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.