If we have never been amazed by the very fact that we exist, we are squandering the greatest fact of all.

Does history warrant the conclusion that religion is necessary to morality - that a natural ethic is too weak to withstand the savagery that lurks under civilization and emerges in our dreams, crimes and wars? ... There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion.

Destroy it. There may be a redistribution of the land, but the natural inequality of men soon re-creates an inequality of possessions and privileges, and raises to power a new minority with essentially the same instincts as the old.

If a man is fortunate he will, before he dies, gather up as much as he can of his civilized heritage and transmit it to his children.

India was the motherland of our race and Samskrit the mother of Europe 's languages...Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all.

The past is not dead. Indeed, it is often not even past.

Inquiry is fatal to certainty.