I do not care what philosophy you take up; only I am ready to prove here that throughout the whole of India, there runs a mutual and cordial string of eternal faith in the perfection of humanity, and I believe in it myself. And let that faith be spread over the whole land.

Neither idealists nor materialists are right; we must take both idea and expression.

Modern Hinduism, modern Jainism, and Buddhism branched off at the same time. For some period, each seemed to have wanted to outdo the others in grotesqueness and humbuggism.

Above all, beware of compromises. I do not mean that you are to get into antagonism with anybody, but you have to hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others "fads" thought the greed of getting supporters.

Each nation has a theme: everything else is secondary. India's theme is religion.

In India, religious life forms the centre, the keynote of the whole music of national life.

We have none of us seen a form which had not a beginning and will not have an end.