Test everything, try everything, and then believe it, and if you find it for the good of many, give it to all.

We know there is no progress in a straight line.

If you have not even a little imagination, you are simply a brute. So you must not lower your ideal, neither are you to lose sight of practicality. We must avoid the two extremes.... You must try to combine in your life immense idealism with immense practicality.

The Buddha is not a person but a (state of) realization to which anyone can attain.

[The seers call him wise] whose every attempt is free, without any desire for gain, without any selfishness.

What is marriage but the renunciation of unchastity? The savage does not marry. Man marries because he renounces.

The Upanishads do not reveal the life of any teacher, but simply teach principles.