The revealed and mystic literature of mankind bears ample testimony to the fact that religious experience has been too enduring and dominant in the history of mankind to be rejected as mere illusion. There seems to be no reason, then, to accept the normal level of human experience as fact and reject its other levels as mystical and emotional.

If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.

But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.

I have never considered myself a poet. Therefore, I am not a rival of anyone, and I do not consider anybody my rival.

Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.

Though the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we may dwell.

My ancestors were Brahmins. They spent their lives in search of god. I am spending my life in search of man.