"I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves."
"School was the unhappiest time of my life and the worst trick it ever played on me was to pretend that it was the world in miniature. For it hindered me from discovering how lovely and delightful and kind the world can be, and how much of it is intelligible."
"But nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to disappear and merge into something else."
"How do I know what I think until I see what I say?"
"Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon."
"The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death."