In duty the individual acquires his substantive freedom

Destiny is consciousness of oneself, but consciousness of oneself as an enemy.

Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.

Science and knowledge, especially that of philosophy, came from the Arabs into the West.

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

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.

Quite generally, the familiar, just because it is familiar, is not cognitively understood. The commonest way in which we deceive either ourselves or others about understanding is by assuming something as familiar, and accepting it on that account; with all its pros and cons, such knowing never gets anywhere, and it knows not why.... The analysis of an idea, as it used to be carried out, was, in fact, nothing else than ridding it of the form in which it had become familiar.