The self is not so much linked to its ancestors, it is not so much the product, and merely the product, of all that, but rather, in the strictest sense of the word, the same thing as all that: the strict, direct continuation of it, just as the self aged fifty is the continuation of the self aged forty.

The multiplicity is only apparent. This is the doctrine of the Upanishads. And not of the Upanishads only. The mystical experience of the union with God regularly leads to this view, unless strong prejudices stand in the way.

This life of yours which you are living is not merely a piece of this entire existence, but in a certain sense the whole... Thus you can throw yourself flat on the ground, stretched out upon mother earth, with the certain conviction that you are one with her and she with you.

I belong to those theoreticians who know by direct observation what it means to make a measurement. Methinks it were better if there were more of them.

The task is not to see what has never been seen before, but to think what has never been thought before about what you see everyday.

In an honest search for knowledge, you quite often have to abide by ignorance for an indefinite period.

The total number of minds in the universe is one.