A man must not only have faith but intellectual faith too. To make a man take up everything and believe it, would be to make him a lunatic.

God is true. The universe is a dream. Blessed am I that I know this moment that I have been and shall be free all eternity; ... that I know that I am worshiping only myself; that no nature, no delusion, had any hold on me. Vanish nature from me, vanish these gods; vanish worship; ... vanish superstitions, for I know myself. I am the Infinite. All these - Mrs. So-and-so, Mr. So-and-so, responsibility, happiness, misery - have vanished. I am the Infinite. How can there be death for me, or birth? Whom shall I fear? I am the One. Shall I be afraid of myself? Who is to be afraid of whom?

The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which is free.

The idea of perfect womanhood is perfect independence

Through the imparting of moral principles, good behaviour, and education we must make the Chandala come up to the level of the Brahmana.

To the person who desires nothing and does not get entangled in desires, the manifold changes of nature are one panorama of beauty and sublimity.

Man's experience in the world is to enable him to get out of its whirlpool.