It is not God's fault. It is our fault that we suffer. Whatever we sow we reap.

Man is greater than the gods.

Body is the name of a stream of matter continuously changing.

Religion in India must be made as free and as easy of access as is God's air.

The coward, afraid of the lash, with one hand wipes his eyes and gives with the other. Of what avail are such gifts?

It is the nature of the brute to remain where he is (not to progress); it is the nature of man to seek good and avoid evil; it is the nature of God to seek neither, but just to be eternally blissful. Let us be God!

You of the West are practical in business, practical in great inventions, but we of the East are practical in religion. You make commerce your business; we make religion our business.