It is absolutely certain that God does exist.

The intellect of two thousand asses cannot bring forth a single man's thought.

But the universe, as a collection of finite things, presents itself as a kind of island situated in a pure vacuity to which time, regarded as a series of mutually exclusive moments, is nothing and does nothing.

The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.

Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.

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

Another way of judging the value of a prophet's religious experience, therefore, would be to examine the type of manhood that he has created, and the cultural world that has sprung out of the spirit of his message.