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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.