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

Shame on such a morality that is worthy of pariahs, and that fails to recognize the eternal essence that exists in every living thing, and shines forth with inscrutable significance from all eyes that see the sun!

The majority of men... are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and... are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.

This actual world of what is knowable, in which we are and which is in us, remains both the material and the limit of our consideration.

I observed once to Goethe that when a friend is with us we do not think the same of him as when he is away. He replied, "Yes! because the absent friend is yourself, and he exists only in your head; whereas the friend who is present has an individuality of his own, and moves according to laws of his own, which cannot always be in accordance with those which you form for yourself.

We should comfort ourselves with the masterpieces of art as with exalted personages-stand quietly before them and wait till they speak to us.

One can forget everything, everything, only not oneself, one's own being.