I do not believe in eternal progress, that we are growing on ever and ever in a straight line. It is too nonsensical to believe. There is no motion in a straight line. A straight line infinitely projected becomes a circle. The force sent out will complete the circle and return to its starting place.

Above all, India is the land of religion.

The glory of man is that he is a thinking being. It is the nature of man to think and therein he differs from animals

The whole universe is composed of name and form. Whatever we see is either a compound of name and form, or simply name with form which is a mental image.

We know how often in our lives through laziness and cowardice we give up the battle and try to hypnotise our minds into the belief that we are brave.

Thinking of objects, attachment to them is formed in a man. From attachment longing, and from longing anger grows.

The sky never changes: it is the cloud that is changing.