Even forgiveness, if weak and passive, is not true: fight is better. Forgive when you could bring legions of angels to the victory.

The very reason for nature's existence is the education of the soul; it has no other meaning.

This life is a hard fact; work your way through it boldly, though it may be adamantine; no matter, the soul is stronger.

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

The Vedanta teaches men to have faith in themselves first.

God is cruel and not cruel. He is all being and not being at the same time. Hence He is all contradictions. Nature also is nothing but a mass of contradictions.

Two attempts have been made in the world to found social life: the one was upon religion, and the other was upon social necessity. The one was founded upon spirituality, the other upon materialism; the one upon transcendentalism, the other upon realism.