You see, no one can teach anybody. The teacher spoils everything by thinking that he is teaching. Thus Vedanta says that within man is all knowledge-even in a boy it is so-and it requires only an awakening, and that much is the work of a teacher.

Man is the highest being in creation, because he attains to freedom.

Man is the greatest being that ever can be.

[Perfection] is only possible if the mind of man is changed, if he, of his own sweet will, changes his mind; and the great difficulty is, neither can he force his own mind.

Let a man go down as low as possible; there must come a time when out of sheer desperation he will take an upward curve and will learn to have faith in himself.

Man is the epitome of all things and all knowledge is in him.

The same power is in every man, the one manifesting more, the other less; the same potentiality is in everyone.

Perfection is one thing and enjoyment another; these two having different ends, engage men differently.

Man is the apex of the only world we can ever know.