“Solitude is a catalyst for innovation”

“Wherever you are you will always be in my heart.”

“Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.” 

“True morality consists not in following the beaten track, but in finding the true path for ourselves, and fearlessly following it.”

“We should be able to refuse to live if the price of living be the torture of sentient beings.”

“Even a single lamp dispels the deepest darkness.”

“What lies ahead of you & what lies behind you is nothing compared to what lies within you.”

“A person who believes in fighting and does not regard it as violence, though it is violence, is here being asked to kill.”

“No problem is too small or too trivial if we can really do something about it.”

“I have found by experience that man makes his plans to be often upset by God, but at the same time where the ultimate goal is the search of truth, no matter how a man’s plans are frustrated, the issue is never injurious and often better than anticipated. The”

“My difficulties lay deeper. It was more than I could believe that Jesus was the only incarnate son of God, and that only he who believed in him would have everlasting life. If God could have sons, all of us were His sons. If Jesus was like God, or God Himself, then all men were like God and could be God Himself. My reason was not ready to believe literally that Jesus by his death and by his blood redeemed the sins of the world. Metaphorically there might be some truth in it. Again, according to Christianity only human beings had souls, and not other living beings, for whom death meant complete extinction; while I held a contrary belief. I could accept Jesus as a martyr, an embodiment of sacrifice, and a divine teacher, but not as the most perfect man ever born. His death on the Cross was a great example to the world, but that there was anything like a mysterious or miraculous virtue in it my heart could not accept. The pious lives of Christians did not give me anything that the lives of men of other faiths had failed to give. I had seen in other lives just the same reformation that I had heard of among Christians. Philosophically there was nothing extraordinary in Christian principles. From the point of view of sacrifice, it seemed to me that the Hindus greatly surpassed the Christians. It was impossible for me to regard Christianity as a perfect religion or the greatest of all religions.”

“Men flocked to see it and ascended it as it was a novelty and of unique dimensions. It was the toy of the exhibition. So long as we are children we are attracted by toys, and the tower was a good demonstration of the fact that we are all children attracted by trinkets. That may be claimed to be the purpose served by the Eiffel Tower.”

“to believe in something and not live it is dishonest.”

“Joy lies in the fight, in the attempt, in the suffering involved, not in the victory itself”

“Lebe, als würdest Du morgen sterben und lerne, als ob Du ewig leben würdest.”