Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

Life is full of troubles and vexations, that one must either rise above it by means of corrected thoughts, or leave it.

A sense of humour is the only divine quality of man

Every genius is a great child; he gazes out at the world as something strange, a spectacle, and therefore with purely objective interest

Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but also a disruption of thought.

Education perverts the mind since we are directly opposing the natural development of our mind by obtaining ideas first and observations last. This is why so few men of learning have such sound common sense as is quite common among the illiterate.

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.