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| The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything | | Literature | |
| The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly | | Art | |
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| The horror no less than the charm of real life consists precisely in the recurrent actualization of the inconceivable | | Charm; Life | |
| The inspiring talker produces zeal, whose intensity depends not on the rationality of what is said or the goodness of the cause that is being advocated, but solely on the propagandist's skill in using words in an exciting way | | Uncategorized | |
| The investigation of nature is an infinite pasture-ground where all may graze, and where the more bite, the longer the grass grows, the sweeter is its flavor, and the more it nourishes. | | Uncategorized | |
| The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude. | | Originality | |
| The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right. | | Uncategorized | |
| The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own | | War | |
| The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not. | | Uncategorized | |
| The only completely consistent people are the dead. | | Uncategorized | |
| The Perennial Philosophy is expressed most succinctly in the Sanskrit formula, tat tvam asi ('That art thou'); the Atman, or immanent eternal Self, is one with Brahman, the Absolute Principle of all existence; and the last end of every human being, is to discover the fact for himself, to find out who he really is. | | Philosophy; Religion | |
| The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human | | Uncategorized | |
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| The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved. | | Uncategorized | |
| The religions whose theology is least preoccupied with events in time and most concerned with eternity, have been consistently less violent and more humane in political practice. Unlike early Judaism, Christianity and Mohammedanism (all obsessed with time) Hinduism and Buddhism have never been persecuting faiths, have preached almost no holy wars and have refrained from that proselytizing religious imperialism which has gone hand in hand with political and economic oppression of colored people. | | Religion | |
| The saxophones wailed like melodious cats under the moon. | | Uncategorized | |
| The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm. | | 40th birthday; Enthusiasm; Genius | |
| The smallest fact is a window through which the infinite may be seen. | | Uncategorized | |
| The traveller's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his life in trains and restaurants and know nothing of humanity at the end. To know, one must be an actor as well as a spectator. | | Actors and acting; Humanity; Travel; World | |
