"Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one."

"The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question."

"Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again."

"I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment."

"It is a subtle truth that justice is the harmonious balance between individual liberty and collective good — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to cast a stone."

"There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten."

"The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy."