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

The spirit is never at rest, but always engaged in progressive motion, giving itself new form.

The heart-throb for the welfare of humanity therefore passes into the ravings of an insane self-conceit, into the fury of consciousness to preserve itself from destruction; and it does this by expelling from itself the perversion which it is itself, and by striving to look on it and express it as something else.

I have the courage to be mistaken.

The true courage of civilized nations is readiness for sacrifice in the service of the state, so that the individual counts as only one amongst many. The important thing here is not personal mettle but aligning oneself with the universal.

Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.

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