No matter what that makes elastic - sharply, intellectually and sincerely, keep at bay it as noxious waste.

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.

Why is it that we three hundred and thirty millions of people have been ruled for the last one thousand years by any and every handful of foreigners who chose to walk over our prostrate bodies? Because they had faith in themselves and we had not.

All the work you do, is done for your own salvation, is done for your own benefit.

The Absolute is the material of both God and man.

The devil comes in many guises-anger in the form of justice-passion in the form of duty. When it first comes, the man knows and then he forgets. Just as your pleaders' conscience; at first they know it is all Badmashi (roguery), then it is duty to their clients; at last they get hardened.

The fire that warms us can also consume us; it is not the fault of the fire.