Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.

A work of art has an author and yet, when it is perfect, it has something which is anonymous about it.

We should do only those righteous actions which we cannot stop ourselves from doing.

Attachment is a manufacturer of illusion and whoever wants reality ought to be detached.

Compassion directed to oneself is humility.

The difference between more or less intelligent men is like the difference between criminals condemned to life imprisonment in smaller or larger cells. The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like a condemned man who is proud of his large cell.

A man whose mind feels that it is captive would prefer to blind himself to the fact. But if he hates falsehood, he will not do so; and in that case he will have to suffer a lot. He will beat his head against the wall until he faints. He will come to again