Man cannot be satisfied by wealth. Man cannot go beyond his nature, no more than you can jump out of your body.

Infinite perfection is in every man, though unmanifested. Every man has in him the potentiality of attaining to perfect saintliness, Rishihood, or to the most exalted position of an Avatâra, or to the greatness of a hero in material discoveries.

Man can think of divine things only in his own human way, to us the Absolute can be expressed only in our relative language.

Cowards only sin, brave men never, no, not even in mind.

Man can become like God and acquire control over the whole universe if he multiplies infinitely his centre of self-consciousness.

If I am a Pariah, I will be all the more glad, for I am the disciple of a man, who - the Brahmin of Brahmins - wanted to cleanse the house of a Pariah. (here "the man" means Ramakrishna)

Man as Atman is really free; as man he is bound, changed by every physical condition.

Man always is perfect, or he never could become so; but he had to realise it.

Infinite perfection is in every man, though unmanifested.