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.

There is only one heroism in the world: to see the world as it is, and to love it.

The more a man lives, the more a man creates, the more a man loves and loses those whom he loves, the more does he escape from death. With every new blow that we have to bear, with every new work that we round and finish, we escape from ourselves, we escape into the work we have created, the soul we have loved, the soul that has left us.

The theatre, like the fresco, is art fitted to its place. And therefore it is above all else the human art, the living art.

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

Most men are essentially dead by thirty.

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.