The point about zero is that we do not need to use it in the operation of daily life. No one goes out to buy zero fish.
If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
The misconception which has haunted philosophic literature throughout the centuries is the notion of ‘independent existence.’ There is no such mode of existence; every entity is to be understood in terms of the way it is interwoven with the rest of the universe.
From the very beginning of his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery.
Dogmatism is the anti-Christ of learning.
Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.
Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.
Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.
There are no whole truths: All truths are half-truths.
Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise.
The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit.
In all education the main cause of failure is staleness.
Ideas won’t keep. Something must be done about them.
In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows, for details are swallowed up in principles. The details for knowledge which are important, will be picked up ad hoc in each avocation of life, but the habit of the active utilization of well-understood principles is the final possession of WISDOM.
It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true.
Vedanta is the most impressive metaphysics the human mind has conceived.
Learning preserves the errors of the past as well as its wisdom.
The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention.
The fixed person for the fixed duties who in older societies was such a godsend, in future will be a public danger.
The worship of God is not a rule of safety – it is an adventure of the spirit, a flight after the unattainable.