Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.

There is a technique, a knack, for thinking, just as there is for doing other things. You are not wholly at the mercy of your thoughts, any more than they are you. They are a machine you can learn to operate.

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

Youth is life as yet unblemished by much tragedy, but hardly by TV.

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

The true method of discovery is like the flight of an aeroplane. It starts from the ground of particular observation; it makes a flight in the thin air of imaginative generalization; and it again lands for renewed observation rendered acute by rational interpretation.

Learning preserves the errors of the past as well as its wisdom.