The Indian idea is that the soul is formless. Whatever is form must break some time or other.

My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation. Out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem like lions

Religion in India must be made as free and as easy of access as is God's air.

It is the duty of every person to contribute in the development and progress of India.

I am a socialist not because I think it is a perfect system, but half a loaf is better than no bread. The other system has been tried and found wanting

According to the law of nature, wherever there is an awakening of a new and stronger life, there it tries to conquer and take the place of the old and the decaying. Nature favours the dying out of the unfit and the survival of the fittest. The final result of such conflict between the priestly and the other classes has been mentioned already.

I want to start two institutions, one in Madras and one in Calcutta, to carry out my plan; and that plan briefly is to bring the Vedantic ideals into the everyday practical life of the saint or the sinner, of the sage or the ignoramus, of the Brahmin or the Pariah.