Every race, every art has its hypocrisy. The world is fed with a little truth and many lies.

Everyone, deep down within, carries a small cemetery of those he has loved.

Discussion is impossible with someone who claims not to seek the truth, but already to possess it.

History furnishes to politics all the arguments that it needs, for the chosen cause.

If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India.

As a result of all his education, from everything he hears and sees around him, the child absorbs such a lot of lies and foolish nonsense, mixed in with essential truths, that the first duty of the adolescent who wants to be a healthy man is to disgorge it all.

Any man who is really a man must learn to be alone in the midst of others, to think alone for others, and, if necessary, against others.