Man is man so long as he is struggling to rise above nature, and this nature is both internal and external.

To cowards what advice shall I offer? - nothing whatsoever have I to say.

Had I lived in Palestine, in the days of Jesus of Nazareth, I would have washed his feet, not with my tears, but with my heart's blood!

We can never lose what is really ours. Who can lose his being? Who can lose his very existence? If I am good, it is the existence first, and then that becomes colored with the quality of goodness. If I am evil, it is the existence first, and that becomes colored with the quality of badness. That existence is first, last, and always; it is never lost but ever present.

There will never be a perfectly good or bad world, because the very idea is a contradiction in terms.

Religion in India culminates in freedom.

You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.