“the weak are always apt to be revengeful.”

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

“The story of the creation and similar things in it did not impress me very much, but on the contrary made me incline somewhat towards atheism.”

“It is simple impertinence for any man, or any body of men, to begin, or to contemplate, reform of the whole world.”

“Today I know that physical training should have as much place in the curriculum as mental training.”

“All have not the same capacity. I would allow a man of intellect to earn more, I would not cramp his talent.”

“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”

“I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”

“To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.”

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

“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.”

“Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.”

“Every seeker has, at one time or another, to pass through a conflict of duties, a heart-churning.”

“Perbedaan pun terbukti berguna, selama ada toleransi.”

“Our contribution to the progress of the world must, therefore, consist in setting our own house in order.”