When you look back on your life, it looks as though it were a plot, but when you are into it, it's a mess: just one surprise after another. Then, later, you see it was perfect.

Honour is external conscience, and conscience is inward honour.

Vedas are the most rewarding and the most elevating book which can be possible in the world.

Every hero is a Samson. The strong man succumbs to the intrigues of the weak and the many; and if in the end he loses all patience he crushes both them and himself.

At bottom, every state regards another as a gang of robbers who will fall upon it as soon as there is an opportunity.

Philosophy ... is a science, and as such has no articles of faith; accordingly, in it nothing can be assumed as existing except what is either positively given empirically, or demonstrated through indubitable conclusions.

The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.