The vastest knowledge of today cannot transcend the buddhi of the Rishis in ancient India; and science in its most advanced stage now is closer to Vedanta than ever before.

No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

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.

There are no whole truths: All truths are half-truths.

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.

Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

...the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life.

If you have a dream no one else can see, a reward awaits you that no one else can have.

In their minds, it seems as though people don't often have the same answers, but in their hearts, they do very frequently have the same questions.

You're worse than decent. You're virtuous.

Sometimes breaking the rules is just extending the rules

I write music to please myself. Hopefully the director's enjoying it too.

I've had an amazing professional life, personal life, but at 64 to have a son who gives us that much love and enjoyment is, wow!

Ex oriente lux may still be the motto of scholars, for the Western world has not yet derived from the East all the light which itis destined to receive thence.

They can make no law which will not have its full operation on themselves and their friends, as well as on the great mass of the society.

Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy.

I always knew that there was something that made me different, and by the time I was in high school, I understood what it was.