Each man must learn his own ideal and try to accomplish it: that is a surer way of progress than to take the ideas of another.

It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails.

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.

Religious faith in the case of the Hindus has never been allowed to run counter to scientific laws, moreover the former is never made a condition for the knowledge they teach, but there are always scrupulously careful to take into consideration the possibility that by reason both the agnostic and atheist may attain truth in their own way. Such tolerance may be surprising to religious believers in the West, but it is an integral part of Vedantic belief.

There is no joy other than the joy of creating. There is no man who is truly alive other than one who is creating. All others are just shadows on the earth with nothing to do with being alive. The joy of living, whether it is love or action, is the joy of creating.

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

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