Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

The result of teaching small parts of a large number of subjects is the passive reception of disconnected ideas, not illumed with any spark of vitality.

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

Governments are best classified by considering who are the 'somebodies' they are in fact endeavouring to satisfy.

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.

What the learned world tends to offer is one second-hand scrap of information illustrating ideas derived from another second-hand scrap of information. The second-handedness of the learned world is the secret of its mediocrity.

No reason can be given for the nature of God, because that nature is the ground of rationality.