It is true that even across the Himalayan barrier India has sent to the west, such gifts as grammar and logic, philosophy and fables, hypnotism and chess, and above all numerals and the decimal system.

[H]istory assures us that civilizations decay quite leisurely.

Education is the transformation of civilisation

Man is an emotional animal, occasionally rational; and through his feelings he can be deceived to his heart's content.

Science tells us how to heal and how to kill; it reduces our death rate in retail and then kills us wholesale in war; but only wisdom - desire coordinated in the light of all experience - can tell us when to heal and when to kill.

Science without philosophy, facts without perspective and valuation, cannot save us from havoc and despair. Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.