"Benares is holy. Europe, grown superficial, hardly understands such truths anymore. I feel nearer"

"The absolute superiority of India over the West in philosophy; poetry from the Mahabharata, containing the Bhagavad-G…"

"Benares is holy. Europe, grown superficial, hardly understands such truths anymore.....I feel nearer here than I have…"

"I have not found in Europe or America, poets, thinkers or popular leaders equal, or even comparable, to those of Indi…"

"“This philosophical nation par excellence” says Count Keyserling, “has more Sanskrit words for philosophical and reli…"

"Hinduism at its best has spoken the only relevant truth about the way to self-realization in the full sense of the word."

"Thus the unique formative power of Islam depends on the unique nature of their God. Allah deserves the name of the Ma…"

"India has produced the profoundest metaphysics that we know of … the absolute superiority of India over the West in p…"

"Was mich hinaustreibt in die weite Welt, ist eben das, was so viele ins Kloster getrieben hat: die Sehnsucht nach der…"

"Vernichtung allein bahnt den Weg zu radikaler Erneuerung."