Occupation: Member Of The London School Board Birth: October 1, 1847 Death: September 20, 1933
There can be no wise politics without thought beforehand..
The birth of science rang the death-knell of an arbitrary and constantly interposing Supreme Power..
I have ever been the queerest mixture of weakness and strength, and have paid heavily for the weakness..
Isaiah is by far the finest and least objectionable of the seventeen prophets whose supposed productions form the latter part of the Old Testament. A….
There is much, of course, in the exclusive claims of Christianity which make it hostile to other faiths..
A myth is far truer than a history, for a history only gives a story of the shadows, whereas a myth gives a story of the substances that cast the sha….
The orthodox believers in God are divided into two camps, one of which maintains that the existence of God is as demonstrable as any mathematical pro….
There is far more misunderstanding of Islam than there is, I think, of the other religions of the world. So many things are said of it by those who d….
Someone ought to do it, but why should I? Someone ought to do it, so why not I? Between these two sentences lie whole centuries of moral evolution..
Muhammadan law in its relation to women, is a pattern to European law. Look back to the history of Islam, and you will find that women have often tak….
The Roman Catholic Church, had it captured me, as it nearly did, would have sent me on some mission of danger and sacrifice and utilised me as a mart….
Every form, not being the whole, must, of necessity, be imperfect; less than the whole, it cannot be identical with the whole, and being less than th….
For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women ….
It is not monogamy when there is one legal wife, and mistresses out of sight..
Evil is only imperfection, that which is not complete, which is becoming, but has not yet found its end..
The highest Hindu intellectual training was based on the practice of yoga, and produced, as its fruit, those marvellous philosophical systems, the si….
Yoga is a science, and not a vague dreamy drifting or imagining. It is an applied science, a systematized collection of laws applied to bring about a….
Let Indian history be set side by side with Europe history with what there is of the latter century by century and let us see whether India need blus….
Socialism is the ideal state, but it can never be achieved while man is so selfish..
The destruction of India's village system was the greatest of England's blunders..
Death consists, indeed, in a repeated process of unrobing, or unsheathing. The immortal part of man shakes off from itself, one after the other, its ….