“The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.”

Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions.

Another way of judging the value of a prophet’s religious experience, therefore, would be to examine the type of manhood that he has created, and the cultural world that has sprung out of the spirit of his message.

Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.

The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.

Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement; and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth of other modes of knowledge.

I lead no party; I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature.

Become dust – and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone – and they will throw thee on glass.

Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.

God is not a dead equation!

Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world.

Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.

Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul’s contact with the body.

Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.

Words, without power, is mere philosophy.

The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.

It is the lot of man to share in the deeper aspirations of the universe around him and to share his own destiny as well as that of the universe, now by adjusting himself to its forces, now by putting the whole of his energy to his own ends and purposes.

From Calcutta has gone forth a living stream of knowledge in many branches of study. It is inspiring to think of the long succession of scholars, both Indian and European, who have lived in this city, made it their own, and given it of their best.

It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.

Make a decision that from now on, your thoughts do not run you, you run your thoughts. From now on, your mind is not the captain of your ship, you are the captain of the ship, and your mind works for you.

From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations

An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.

Got two kids; one’s a record producer who lives just up the road from me – great guitarist and piano player, too.

The life of faith is not only totally different from, but also diametrically opposite to, a life of feeling.

I went straight from high school to ‘Gossip Girl,’ and both were very structured, scheduled environments, so I never had freedom to explore and carve my own path.