What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational. On this conviction the plain man like the philosopher takes his stand,and from it philosophy starts in its study of the universe of mind as well as the universe of nature.

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.

The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk.

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

The History of the world is not the theatre of happiness. Periods of happiness are blank pages in it, for they are periods of harmony--periods when the antithesis is in abeyance.

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

History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it.