In Shankaracharya we saw tremendous intellectual power, throwing the scorching light of reason upon everything.

Whatever had form or shape must be limited, and could not be eternal.

He who is alone is happy. Do good to all, like everyone, but do not love anyone. It is a bondage, and bondage brings only misery. Live alone in your mind - that is happiness. To have nobody to care for and never minding who cares for one is the way to be free.

Man is the best mirror, and the purer the man, the more clearly he can reflect God.

To be good and to do good-that is the whole of religion.

Gita and Ganga constitute the essence of Hinduism; one its theory and the other its practice.

Love for yourselves means [in the end] love for everything.