Education should be so revolutionized as to answer the wants of the poorest villager, instead of answering those of an imperial exploiter.
Persistent questioning and healthy inquisitiveness are the first requisite for acquiring learning of any kind.
True education must correspond to the surrounding circumstances or it is not a healthy growth.
What is really needed to make democracy function is not knowledge of facts, but right education.
It has often occurred to me that a seeker after truth has to be silent.
Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and therefore, were not all those who sanctioned, engineered and conducted wars, war criminals?
Real beauty is my aim.
War is an unmitigated evil. But it certainly does one good thing. It drives away fear and brings bravery to the surface.
A friendly study of the world’s religions is a sacred duty.
Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
So far as I can see the atomic bomb has deadened the finest feeling that has sustained mankind for ages.
Everyone has faith in God though everyone does not know it. For everyone has faith in himself and that multiplied to the nth degree is God. The sum total of all that lives is God. We may not be God, but we are of God, even as a little drop of water is of the ocean.
Many could forgo heavy meals, a full wardrobe, a fine house, etcetera. It is the ego they cannot forgo.
If we take care of the means, we are bound to reach the end sooner or later. When once we have grasped this point, final victory is beyond question. Whatever difficulties we encounter, whatever apparent reverses we sustain, we may not give up the quest for truth.
Life is an aspiration. Its mission is to strive after perfection, which is self-realization. The ideal must not be lowered because of our weaknesses or imperfections.
Love has more force than a besieging army.
Life and death are but phases of the same thing, the reverse and obverse of the same coin. Death is as necessary for man’s growth as life itself.
God comes to the hungry in the form of food.
Those with the greatest awareness have the greatest nightmares.
The hardest metal yields to sufficient heat. Even so must the hardest heart melt before sufficiency of the heat of non- violence. And there is no limit to the capacity of non-violence to generate heat.