I do not call it religion so long as it is confined to books and dogmas.

The less passion there is, the better we work. The calmer we are the better for us and the more the amount of work we can do.

The test of progress is the amount of renunciation that one has attained.

The only saint is that soul that never weakens, faces everything, and determines to die game.

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.

Throw aside your scriptures in the Ganga and teach the people first the means of procuring their food and clothing, and then you will find time to read to them the scriptures.

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.