Take any path you like; follow any prophet you like; but have only that method which suits your own nature, so that you will be sure to progress.

This faith in themselves was in the hearts of our ancestors, this faith in themselves was the motive power that pushed them forward and forward in the march of civilisation, and if there has been degeneration, if there has been defect, mark my words, you will find that degeneration to have started on the day our people lost faith in themselves.

I have come to this conclusion that there is only one country in the world which understands religion - it is India.

All who have actually attained any real religious experience never wrangle over the form in which the different religions are expressed. They know that the soul of all religions is the same and so they have no quarrel with anybody just because he or she does not speak in the same tongue.

Through the imparting of moral principles, good behaviour, and education we must make the Chandala come up to the level of the Brahmana.

The very idea of an infinite in place would be a contradiction in terms, as a place must begin and continue in time.

According to the law of nature, wherever there is an awakening of a new and stronger life, there it tries to conquer and take the place of the old and the decaying. Nature favours the dying out of the unfit and the survival of the fittest. The final result of such conflict between the priestly and the other classes has been mentioned already.