I stand for truth. Truth will never ally itself with falsehood. Even if all the world should be against me, Truth must prevail in the end.

Every human being has the right to ask the reason, why, and to have his question answered by himself, if he only takes the trouble.

Books are infinite in number and time is short. The secret of knowledge is to take what is essential. Take that and try to live up to it.

As soon as extreme attachment comes, a man loses himself, he is no more master of himself, he is a slave.

Man never dies, nor is he ever born; bodies die, but he never dies.

I believe that the Hindu faith has developed the spiritual in its devotees at the expense of the material, and I think that in the Western world the contrary is true. By uniting the materialism of the West with the spiritualism of the East I believe much can be accomplished. It may be that in the attempt the Hindu faith will lose much of its individuality.

Satisfied is no test of truth. Actuality is steadily far from idiosyncratic secure.