The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life’s wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.

In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself – limits where minds meet, and in meeting, begin to exist.

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.

There’s nothing you can know that isn’t known.

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.

Wise men make more opportunities than they find.

Life is hard. After all, it kills you.

It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.

Every religious group, while perhaps a majority somewhere, is also inevitably a minority somewhere else. Thus, religious organizations should and do show tolerance toward members of other religious denominations.

Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

He who doesn’t pray to the Lord prays to the devil.

Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number; for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted.

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man’s being unable to sit still in a room.

The Christian’s Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.

What if nothing exists and we’re all in somebody’s dream?

Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

A witty saying proves nothing.

It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.

It’s not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren’t doing.

Knowledge is true opinion.

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.

There is no scriptural basis for segregation.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don’t throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.

Don’t gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.

I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.

The way is long if one follows precepts, but short… if one follows patterns.

Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

Find new ways to spread the word of God to every corner of the world.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

The reason why I wear gold – I wear gold for three reasons. One, when Jesus was born, three wise men came from the east: one brought frankincense, one brought myrrh, the other one brought gold. The second reason I wear gold is I can afford it. The third reason I wear it, it’s symbolic of my African heritage.

When I was very young I was sort of floored by the fact that my mother and my father and everyone I knew was going to die one day, and myself too. I had a sort of a philosophical crisis. I couldn’t believe that we were mortal.

The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.

There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.

Religion and ritual can be vehicles for entering stillness. It says in Psalm 46:10, ‚Be still, and know that I am God.‘ But they are still just vehicles. The Buddha called his teaching a raft: You don’t need to carry it around with you after you’ve crossed the river.

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

I am against nature. I don’t dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can’t touch with decay.

If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture.

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

The word ‚God‘ usually signifies ‚Lord‘, but every lord is not a God. It is the dominion of a spiritual being which constitutes a God: a true, supreme, or imaginary dominion makes a true, supreme, or imaginary God.

Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.

Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, – superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

The only thing that matters is submitting to the will of God.