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

When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interests which is thereby designated.

To be aware of limitations is already to be beyond them.

The courage of the truth is the first condition of philosophic study.

What history teaches us is that neither nations nor governments ever learn anything from it.

When individuals and nations have once got in their heads the abstract concept of full-blown liberty, there is nothing like it in its uncontrollable strength.

It strikes everyone in beginning to form an acquaintance with the treasures of Indian literature that a land so rich in intellectual products and those of the profoundest order of thought.