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

If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.

In the first period religious life appears as a form of discipline which the individual or a whole people must accept as an unconditional command without any rational understanding of the ultimate meaning and purpose of that command.

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.

Democracy is a system where people are counted not weighed.

Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.

It may, however, be said that the level of experience to which concepts are inapplicable cannot yield any knowledge of a universal character, for concepts alone are capable of being socialized.