The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained liberation from the self.

The true value of a human being can be found in degrees to which he has attained liberation from the self.

Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world.

Common sense is merely the deposit of prejudice laid down in the human mind before the age of 18

There was this huge world out there, independent of us human beings and standing before us like a great, eternal riddle, at least partly accessible to our inspection and thought. The contemplation of that world beckoned like a liberation.

Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for insects as well as for the stars. Human beings, vegetables or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance.