The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
No Quran, no Bible, no Gita, no Cow, is greater than the human self.
Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery we are trying to solve.
A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.
Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
What counts now are the value-less facts, the material and the rational. All else is regarded with condescension as being of only sentimental value.
It is the mark of an educated mind, to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Worse than any severe mental illness, is the illness of bigotry.