You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.
The higher animals are in a sense drawn into Man when he loves them and makes them (as he does) much more nearly human than they would otherwise be.
If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Christians have burned each other, quite persuaded That all the apostles would have done as they did.
My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.
God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.
Religion is the opium of the masses.
From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
Moral indignation - jealousy with a halo.
Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that have received-only what you have given.
We must lay before him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.
You will achieve definitive self-fulfilment only in the next life.
Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honourable gentlemen were brutal savages in an unknown land, mine were priests in the Temple of Solomon.
Make sure you are doing what God wants you to do - then do it with all your strength.
I find distasteful the traditional idea of Christianity which preaches the resurrection of the body. Frankly, I see my body as more of a limitation than a virtue, and I will be glad to be free of it rather than having to continue to cart it around. I prefer to believe that souls can exist independently from bodies.
Let one who has become wealthy reign, and let one who has power renounce
In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.
The great obstacle to the conversion of the modern world is the belief that religion has no intellectual significance; that it may be good for morals and satisfying to man's emotional needs, but that it corresponds to no objective reality.
What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul.
