For me, my secularism is, India first. I say, the philosophy of my party is ‚Justice to all. Appeasement to none.‘ This is our secularism.

Change alone is unchanging.

I think the first duty of society is justice.

From my intimate discussions with President Obama, it is evident that India figures significantly in American geo-political, economic and strategic thinking. India is the largest democracy in the world.

It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are… than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.

Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.

I believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective.

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one’s being added to that being.

It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.

The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.

To do a great right do a little wrong.

We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.

In a way, the whole tangible universe itself is a vast residue, a skeleton of countless lives that have germinated in it and have left it, leaving behind them only a trifling, infinitesimal part of their riches.

Having nothing, nothing can he lose.

The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

On wrongs swift vengeance waits.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

No man was ever wise by chance.

Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which Philosophy distinguishes as the ‚Not Me,‘ that is, both nature and art, all other men and my own body, must be ranked under this name, ‚Nature.‘

I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be.

I believe in believing. My coach John Kavanagh is a big atheist, and he is always trying to persuade people to his way of thinking, and I think, ‚What a waste of energy.‘ If people want to believe in this god or that god, that’s fine by me; believe away. But I think we can be our own gods. I believe in myself.

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.

The good is the beautiful.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

I think being an atheist is something you are, not something you do.

If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.

I happen to believe there is evil in the world.

No obligation to do the impossible is binding.

If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?

Fortunately for India, it has got a growing economy. If it is doing the right things with taxation and focusing on the right areas for human development, it is going to have no problem, over a period of time, taking care of its own needs.

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.

I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.

Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased.

I have just got a new theory of eternity.

Truth is a pathless land.

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.

You just have to have a simple faith.

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

We will be remembered only if we give to our younger generation a prosperous and safe India, resulting out of economic prosperity coupled with civilizational heritage.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.

What we call Man’s power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

The act of dying is one of the acts of life.

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

If God dropped acid, would he see people?

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.

All generalizations are false, including this one.