Thought comes to an end. Then there is that sense of absolute silence in the brain. All the movement of thought has ended.

Identification with the rag called the national flag is an emotional and sentimental factor and for that factor you are willing to kill another - and that is called, the love of your country, love of the neighbor . . .? One can see that where sentiment and emotion come in, love is not.

I am all for changing, even if mistakes are made in the process. Mistakes do not matter.

Right education should help the student, not only to develop his capacities, but to understand his own highest interest.

Ugliness and evil are necessary for growth but they may be experienced vicariously.

There is an art of seeing things as they are: without naming, without being caught in a network of words, without thinking interfering with perception.

All outward forms of change brought about by wars, revolutions, reformations, laws and ideologies have failed completely to change the basic nature of man and therefore of society.