The traditional Indian mind has been for centuries, and still is, first religious, and then everything else.

God is nature's anti-dote to misery.

The only measure of judging a human being is through that person's character, because character is not determined by race, religion, gender or social status. And one who recognizes this simple fact of human life behaves the same with the scientist, the janitor and the sex-worker.

In a society of thinking humanity, it should always be, humans first, and then Gods, Krishna or otherwise.

As a species, wise, harmonious progress is our mission.

It is usually the case with most men that their nature is so constituted that they pity those who fare badly and envy those who fare well.

All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.

Nature her custom holds, Let shame say what it will.

What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing-to live in accord with his own nature.

The dictum that human nature cannot be changed is one of those tiresome platitudes that conceal from the ignorant the depths of their own ignorance.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

To be natural means to dare to be as immoral as Nature is.

Human nature, if it changes at all, changes not much faster than the geological face of the earth.

... human beings are better and lazier than their rules and instructions ...

People always get tired of one another. I grow tired of myself whenever I am left alone for ten minutes, and I am certain that I am fonder of myself than anyone can be of another person.

God showers upon us his gifts-more than enough for all; But like swine scrambling for food, we tread them in the mire, and rend each other.

I think that man can live more simply than any other thing, and that this is one of his most striking characteristics. An idea like wanting to live the life of a stone could occur only to a man.

Verily man was created avid of gain; when evil befalls him, apt to grieve; when good befalls him, grudging.

When people have peace, they hate it and long for excitement, and when they have excitement, they want peace.

We are what we pretend to be.