“Though the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we may dwell.”

The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.

A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego.

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

But the perception of life as an organic unity is a slow achievement, and depends for its growth on a people’s entry into the main current of world-events.

I, therefore, demand the formation of a consolidated Muslim State in the best interest of India and Islam.

Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile.

I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon.

If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.

Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.

Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions…

The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects.

It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.

The possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller realization of certain basic ideas regarding the nature of life and time.

But the universe, as a collection of finite things, presents itself as a kind of island situated in a pure vacuity to which time, regarded as a series of mutually exclusive moments, is nothing and does nothing.

God is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience.

Thus passing through the infinite varieties of space we reach the Divine space which is absolutely free from all dimensions and constitutes the meeting point of all infinities.

I pray before I go into the operating room for every case, and I ask him to give me wisdom, to help me to know what to do – and not only for operating, but for everything.

I’ve heard of their curing syphilis by giving the patient malaria, but I’ve never heard of their curing malaria by giving the patient syphilis.

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.

He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.

Conservatism is not about leaving people behind. Conservatism is about empowering people to catch up, to give them the tools at their disposable that make it possible for them to access all the hope, all the promise, all the opportunity that America offers. And our programs to help them should reflect that.

Here is all I ask of a book- give me everything. Everything, and don’t leave out a single word.

The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.

You cannot give up on the American dream. We cannot allow our fears and our disappointments to lead us into silence and into inaction.