On religions: He who knows one, knows none. - Friedrich Max Müller

जो सक्रिय, जुझारू और हड़पने वाला हो, बल्कि शान्त, ध्यानमय और चिन्तनशील हो? यह आश्चर्यजनक है कि जिन आर्यों ने सिन्धु और गंगा के कुछ सुखद मैदानों और घाटियों में प्रवेश किया उन्होंने जीवन को अनन्त रविवार या छुट्टी के रूप में देखा

The position which believers and unbelievers occupy with regard to their various forms of faith is very much the same all over the world. The difficulties which trouble us, have troubled the hearts and minds of men as far back as we can trace the beginnings of religious life. The great problems touching the relation of the Finite to the Infinite, of the human mind as the recipient, and of the Divine Spirit as the source of truth, are old problems indeed; and while watching their appearance in different countries, and their treatment under varying circumstances, we shall be able, I believe, to profit ourselves, both by the errors which others committed before us, and by the truth which they discovered. We shall know the rocks that threaten every religion in this changing and shifting world of ours, and having watched many a storm of religious controversy and many a shipwreck in distant seas, we shall face with greater calmness and prudence the troubled waters at home.

All one's ideas of Adam and Eve, and the Paradise, and the tower of Babel, and Shem, Ham, and Japhet, with Homer and Aeneas and Virgil too, seemed to be whirling round and round, till at last one picked up the fragments and tried to build a new world, and to live with a new historical consciousness.