The Anglo-Saxon genius for parliamentary government asserted itself; there was a great deal of talk and no decisive action.

Anthropology has been compared to a great region, marked out indeed as within the sphere of influence of science, but unsettled and for the most part unsubdued. Like all such hinterland sciences, it is a happy hunting-ground for adventurers.

Hinduism is synonymous with humanism. That is its essence and its great liberating quality.

The catastrophe of the atomic bombs which shook men out of cities and businesses and economic relations, shook them also out of their old-established habits of thought, and out of the lightly held beliefs and prejudices that came down to them from the past.

We're in a blessed drainpipe, and we've got to crawl along it till we die.

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

It is possible to believe that all the past is but the beginning of a beginning, and that all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. It is possible to believe that all the human mind has ever accomplished is but the dream before the awakening.