The world cares little for principles. They care for persons.

My children, the secret of religion lies not in theories but in practice.

Perfection does not come from belief or faith. Talk does not count for anything. Parrots can do that. Perfection comes through the disinterested performance of action.

A form comes out of a combination of force and matter.

You and I and everything in the universe are that Absolute, not parts, but the whole. You are the whole of that Absolute, and so are all others, because the idea of part cannot come into it.

All objective pleasure in the long run must bring pain, because of the fact of change or death.

Everything which has name and form must die. If there are heavens with forms, these heavens must vanish in course of time; they may last millions of years, but there must come a time when they will have to go.