The world is shocked, or amused, by the sight of saintly old people hindering in the name of morality the removal of obvious brutalities from a legal system.

Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.

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

No man of science wants merely to know. He acquires knowledge to appease his passion for discovery. He does not discover in order to know, he knows in order to discover.

In this modern world, the celibacy of the medieval learned class has been replaced by a celibacy of the intellect which is divorced from the concrete contemplation of the complete facts.

Aristotle discovered all the half-truths which were necessary to the creation of science.

The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue.