Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge... At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom.

The light has gone out of our lives and there is darkness everywhere.

Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.

Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.

Philosophy is nothing other than the pursuit of nobility and goodness.

-- Gaius Musonius Rufus

Educate the children and it will not be necessary to punish the men.

-- Pythagoras

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fancies.

-- Hypatia

To teach superstitions as truth is a most terrible thing.

-- Hypatia

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

-- Confucius

Zen is not a system of dhyana as practised in India and by other Buddhist schools in China. It is a way of life.

-- D. T. Suzuki