One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved.

The greatest human ideal is the great cause of bringing together the thoughts of Europe and Asia; the great soul of India will topple our world.

Discussion is impossible with someone who claims not to seek the truth, but already to possess it.

I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so.

Skepticism, riddling the faith of yesterday, prepared the way for the faith of tomorrow.

The true Vedantic spirit does not start out with a system of preconceived ideas. It possesses absolute liberty and unrivalled courage among religions with regard to the facts to be observed and the diverse hypotheses it has laid down for their coordination. Never having been hampered by a priestly order, each man has been entirely free to search wherever he pleased for the spiritual explanation of the spectacle of the universe.