Metaphysics

"Our puny sentimentalism has caused us to forget that a human life is sacred only when it may be of some use to itself and to the world."

"The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision."

"The only real blind person at Christmas-time is he who has not Christmas in his heart.We sightless children had the best of eyes that day in our hearts and in our finger-tips. We were glad from the ch…"

"You know my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled by the iron feet of oppression. There comes a time my friends, when people get tired of being plunged across the abyss o…"

"I do not wish to suggest that because we were one nation we had no differences, but it is submitted that our leading men travelled throughout India . . . They learned one another's languages . . . the…"

"In reality there are as many religions as there are individuals.... Religions are different roads converging to the same point. What does it matter that we take different roads, so long as we reach th…"

"A general belief seems to prevail in the colony that the Indians are little better, if at all, than the savages or natives of Africa. Even the children are taught to believe in that manner, with the r…"

"Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself wort…"

"To the rational being only the irrational is unendurable, but the rational is endurable."

"This Being of mine, whatever it really is, consists of a little flesh, a little breath, and the part which governs."