“Failure to find the truth is perhaps an intellectual defeat, but failure to look for the truth is an intellectual surrender.”

“Believing that there is a conflict between rationality and spirituality is like believing that there is a conflict between knowledge and inspiration.”

“The ultimate foundation of spirituality is the recognition that there can't be such a thing as a purposeful life in a purposeless universe.”

“Entrepreneurship is the use of self-interest in the service of others. Politics is the use of others in the service of self-interest.”

“The surest way to damage society is to call for a "great man" to lead it. The surest way to improve society is to become a great man to lead oneself and convince others to do likewise.”

“If you want peace, prepare for ideological war with those who want others to prepare for physical war.”

“We loved with a love that was more than love.”

“The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being.”

“Love is not the absence of logicbut logic examined and recalculatedheated and curved to fitinside the contours of the heart”

“Philosophers, for example, often fail to recognize that their remarks about the universe apply also to themselves and their remarks. If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so.”

“It is so difficult - at least, I find it difficult - to understand people who speak the truth.”

“When you perceive a truth, look for the balancing truth.”

“I have little use for religion as it is practiced, or for astrology, or for belief in witchcraft or omens of good or ill-luck. I think they all stem from some insufficiency in mens minds, perhaps f...”

“It is only the innocent mind which knows what love is, and the innocent mind can live in the world which is not innocent.”

“So if you can look at all things without allowing pleasure to creep in - at a face, a bird, the colour of a sari, the beauty of a sheet of water shimmering in the sun, or anything that gives deligh...”