“Many love humanity only in order to forget God with a clear conscience.”

“Modern man is a prisoner who thinks he is free because he refrains from touching the walls of his dungeon.”

“Faith is not knowledge of an object but communion with it.”

“To be right is just one more reason not to achieve any success.”

“In the intelligent man faith is the only remedy for anguish.The fool is cured by reason, progress, alcohol, work.”

“Swimming against the current is not idiotic if the waters are racing toward a waterfall.”

“To be of value to humanity, start by thinking for yourself.”

“Love is not an emotion. It is your very existence.”

“The General belonged to the learned type of military men who believed that liberal and humane views can be reconciled with their profession. But being by nature a kind and intelligent man, he soon ...”

“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...”