The animal man lives in the senses. If he does not get enough to eat, he is miserable; or if something happens to his body, he is miserable. In the senses both his misery and his happiness begin and end.

In one sense Brahman is known to every human being; he knows, "I am"; but man does not know himself as he is.

Only man makes Karma.

Never say any man is hopeless, because he only represents a character, a bundle of habits, which can be checked by new and better ones. Character is repeated habits, and repeated habits alone can reform character.

Man the infinite dreamer, dreaming finite dreams!

See here, how fresh is the air, there is the Ganga, and the Sadhus (holy men) are practising meditation, and holding lofty talks! While the moment you will go to Calcutta, you will be thinking of nasty stuff.

The kingdom of heaven is already in existence if we will have it, that perfection is already in man if he will see it.

Man's free agency is not of the mind, for that is bound. There is no freedom there.

Man's experience in the world is to enable him to get out of its whirlpool.