We can keep from a child all knowledge of earlier myths, but we cannot take from him the need for mythology.

The more uncertain I have felt about myself, the more there has grown up in me a feeling of kinship with all things.

Caution has its place, no doubt, but we cannot refuse our support to a serious venture which challenges the whole of the personality. If we oppose it, we are trying to suppress what is best in man - his daring and his aspirations. And should we succeed, we should only have stood in the way of that invaluable experience which might have given a meaning to life.

Nothing is more repulsive than a furtively prurient spirituality; it is just as unsavoury as gross sensuality.

We often dream about people from whom we receive a letter by the next post. I have ascertained on several occasions that at the moment when the dream occurred the letter was already lying in the post-office of the addressee.

But India did not pass me by without a trace: it left tracks which lead me from one infinity to another infinity.

Sensation tell us a thing is. Thinking tell us what it is this thing is. Feeling tells us what this thing is to us.