प्रकृति में दक्षिण और उत्तर होते हैं, क्या वैसे ही मानव स्वभाव में दो गोलार्द्ध नहीं होते — एक ओर तो सक्रिय युद्धप्रिय, और राजनीतिक और दूसरी ओर पैसिव, ध्यानी और… - Friedrich Max Müller

बौद्धिक गतिविधि का एक और भी क्षेत्र था जिसमें हिन्दू बहुत निष्णात थे — ध्यान और भावातीत — और यहाँ हम उनसे जीवन के कुछ गुण सीख सकते

If I were to look over the whole world to find out the country most richly endowed with all the wealth, power, and beauty that nature can bestow — in some parts a very paradise on earth — I should point to India. If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most full developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered on the greatest problems of life, and has found solutions of some of them which well deserve the attention even of those who have studied Plato and Kant — I should point to India. And if I were to ask myself from what literature we, here in Europe, we who have been nurtured almost exclusively on the thoughts of Greeks and Romans, and of one Semitic race, the Jewish, may draw that corrective which is most wanted in order to make our inner life more perfect, more comprehensive, more universal, in fact more truly human, a life, not for this life only, but a transfigured and eternal life — again I should point to India.

सत्य का दूसरा नाम संस्कृत में रित है, जिसका अर्थ मूलत: शायद सीधा था,