The Absolute does not change, or re-evolve.

The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.

The body is the external coating and the mind is the internal coating of the Atman who is the real perceiver, the real enjoyer, the being in the body who is working the body by means of the internal organ or the mind.

Religion is the one and sole interest of the people of India.

To realize the spirit as spirit is practical religion. Everything else is good so far as it leads to this one grand idea.

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

It is the free alone which never changes, and the unchangeable alone which is free; for change is produced by something exterior to a thing, or within itself, which is more powerful than the surroundings.