You desire a popular art? Begin by having a "people" whose minds are liberated, a people not crushed by misery and ceaseless toil, not brutalized by every superstition and every fanaticism, a people of itself, and victor in the fight that is being waged today.

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

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.

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

A hero is a man who does what he can.

I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so.

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