To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.

The sublime in art is the attempt to express the infinite without finding in the realm of phenomena any object which proves itself fitting for this representation.

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

An individual piece only has meaning when it is seen as part of the whole.

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

Too fair to worship, too divine to love.

Life has value only when it has something valuable as its object.