Keshab Chandra Sen

"A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking an animal's life merely for the sake of his appetite."

"The great reformers of the world turn into the great tyrants."

"Conviction is the conscience of the mind."

"We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole."

"The moment a man ceases to dream, he ceases to live."

"Knowledge is the eye of desire and can only be satisfied by beauty."

"Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active."

"Love is the bridge between you and everything."

"True education means the development of man in all his completeness."

"The body is the temple of the soul, and should be treated with reverence."

"Idleness is not the absence of work, but the absence of one's soul in the work."

"Great thoughts come from the heart."

"The true religion is the love of humanity."

"We are all architects of our own destiny."

"Friendship is the most beautiful of all relations and the most painful of all separations."

"The greatest truths are the simplest things in the world, simple as your own breathing."

"Time is the canvas on which our deeds are painted."

"Beauty is the purgation of superfluities."

"Art is the effort of man to express the idea that nature suggests."

"Science is organized knowledge."

"Music is the language of the universal."

"Hope is the pillar of the world."

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquest of it."

"Change is the law of life."

"Happiness is not in the possession of things, but in the absence of wants."

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal."

"The greatest gift is the gift of oneself."

"Family is the nucleus of civilization."

"Peace is not merely the absence of war, but the presence of justice."

"Nature is the living, visible soul of the universe."