India has created a special momentum in world history as a country to be searched for knowledge.

We learn from history that we do not learn from history

To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.

Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two.

Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.

What history teaches us is that neither nations nor governments ever learn anything from it.

I have the courage to be mistaken.

All education is the art of making men ethical (sittlich), of transforming the old Adam into the new Adam.

To be aware of limitations is already to be beyond them.

Africa has no history and did not contribute to anything that mankind enjoyed.

. . . most martial artists want to know how A technique is done, A seasoned Sensei will demonstrate why

Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism. It is actually the opposite of Conservatism, since it is a devotion to something that is always changing and yet is felt to be mystically the same.

Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength.

My father never raised his hand to any one of his children - except in self-defense.

All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.

The head best leaves to the heart what the heart alone divines.

Why should architecture or objects of art in the machine age, just because they are made by machines, have to resemble machinery?

We will have to wait a little longer to see if Armageddon has arrived.

I try to make images that have the immediate presence we take for granted in objects - a chair, a shoe, a book, a Judd - and compose them like sentences.

If we can develop the ability to be aware of the present moment, we can use the past as a guide for ordering our actions in the future, so that we may attain our goal.