Religion lies in being and becoming, in realization.

Renunciation is the very basis upon which ethics stands.

Is there no room for art in the spoken language? What is the use of creating an unnatural language to the exclusion of the natural one?

The forms have value only so far as they are expressions of the life within. If they have ceased to express life, crush them out without mercy.

We have none of us seen a form which had not a beginning and will not have an end.

If you are pure, if you are strong, you, one man are equal to the whole world.

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.