The great are strongest when they stand alone,A God-given might of being is their force.
The soul attracted leaned to the Abyss:It longed for the adventure of Ignorance
For what the Spirit sees becomes a truthAnd what the soul imagines is made a world
Pain is the hammer of the Gods to break a dead resistance in the mortal’s heart
Live according to Nature, runs the maxim of the West; but according to what nature, the nature of the body or the nature which exceeds the body? This first we ought to determine.
… for we perceive that this miraculous development is not the result of our own efforts: an eternal Perfection is moulding us into its own image.
The existence of poverty is the proof of an unjust and ill-organised society, and our public charities are but the first tardy awakening in the conscience of a robber.
What the soul sees and has experienced, that it knows; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion.
Watch the too indignantly righteous. Before long you will find them committing or condoning the very offence which they have so fiercely censured.
When I had the dividing reason, I shrank from many things; after I had lost it in sight, I hunted through the world for the ugly and the repellant, but I could no longer find them.
She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is, truths which have only recently begun to be seen in Europe and seem even now too great for its common intelligence.
That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.