Passion is like genius: a miracle.

Love of my country does not demand that I shall hate and slay those noble and faithful souls who also love theirs.

Skepticism, riddling the faith of yesterday, prepared the way for the faith of tomorrow.

Take possession of the air, submit the elements, penetrate the last redoubts of nature, make space retreat, make death retreat.

The friend who understands you, creates you.

The true Vedantic spirit does not start out with a system of preconceived ideas. It possesses absolute liberty and unrivalled courage among religions with regard to the facts to be observed and the diverse hypotheses it has laid down for their coordination. Never having been hampered by a priestly order, each man has been entirely free to search wherever he pleased for the spiritual explanation of the spectacle of the universe.

I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries.