Scholars are those who have read in books, but thinkers, men of genius, world-enlighteners, and reformers of the human race are those who have read directly in the book of the world.

It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.

In the whole world there is no study so beneficial and so elevating as that of the Upanishads. It has been the solace of my life, it will be the solace of my death.

In many cases hate a person is rooted in the involuntary estimate of its virtues.

universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.

Thus also every keen pleasure is an error and an illusion, for no attained wish can give lasting satisfaction.

Genius and madness have something in common: both live in a world that is different from that which exists for everyone else.