...this our world, which is so real, with all its suns and milky ways is-nothing.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Man is the only animal who causes pain to others with no other object than wanting to do so.

In truth the most striking figure for the relation of the two is that of the strong blind man carrying the sighted lame man on his shoulders.

Our religions will never at any time take root; the ancient wisdom of the human race will not be supplanted by the events in Galilee. On the contrary, Indian wisdom flows back to Europe, and will produce a fundamental change in our knowledge and thought.

Poverty and slavery are thus only two forms ofthe same thing, the essence of which is that a man's energies are expended for the most part not on his own behalf but on that of others.

Knowledge is to certain extent a second existence.