The true objection to slavery is not that it is unjust to the inferior but that it corrupts the superior.

I am prepared to maintain that Honesty is essentially an anarchistic and disintegrating force in society, that communities are held together and the progress of civilization made possible only by vigorous and sometimes even, violent Lying; that the Social Contract is nothing more or less than a vast conspiracy of human beings to lie and humbug themselves and one another for the general Good.

I do not propose to add anything to what has already been written concerning the loss of the "Lady Vain."

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

If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn't expecting it.

The idea of a world commonweal has to be established as the criterion of political institutions, and also as the criterion of general conduct in hundreds of millions of brains. It has to dominate education everywhere in the world. When that end is achieved, then the world state will be achieved.

It's no use locking the door after the steed is stolen.