Was there ever a sillier thing before in the world than what I saw in Malabar country? The poor Pariah is not allowed to pass through the same street as the high-caste man, but if he changes his name to a hodge-podge English name, it is all right; or to a Mohammedan name, it is all right.

Even the greatest fool can accomplish a task if it were after his or her heart. But the intelligent ones are those who can convert every work into one that suits their taste.

This caste system had grown by the practice of the son always following the business of the father.

Have faith in yourself, all power is in you, be conscious and bring it out

We first observe facts, then generalise, and then draw conclusions or principles.

If you think that you are bound, you remain bound; you make your own bondage. If you know that you are free, you are free this moment. This is knowledge, knowledge of freedom. Freedom is the goal of all nature.

Man can think of divine things only in his own human way, to us the Absolute can be expressed only in our relative language.