Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help.

It is because the method of physics does not satisfy the comprehension that we have to go on further.

Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two.

India has created a special momentum in world history as a country to be searched for knowledge.

The state of man's mind, or the elementary phase of mind which he so far possesses, conforms precisely to the state of the world as he so far views it

We must have a new mythology, but it must place itself at the service of ideas, it must become a mythology of reason. Mythology must become philosophical, so that the people may become rational, and philosophy must become mythological, so that philosophers may become sensible. If we do not give ideas a form that is aesthetic, i.e., mythological, they will hold no interest for people.

Reason is just as cunning as she is powerful. Her cunning consists principally in her mediating activity, which, by causing objects to act and re-act on each other in accordance with their own nature, in this way, without any direct interference in the process, carries out reason's intentions.