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A philosopher is a lover of wisdom, not of knowledge, which for all its great uses ultimately suffers from the crippling effect of ephemerality. All knowledge is transient, linked to the world around it and subject to change as the world changes, whereas wisdom, true wisdom is eternal, immutable. To be philosophical one must love wisdom for its own sake, accept its permanent validity and yet its perpetual irrelevance. It is the fate of the wise to understand the process of history and yet never to shape it.

Where civilization entailed the corruption of barbarian virtues and the creation of a dependent people, I was opposed to civilization...

On Gandhi: Don’t ever forget, that we were not lead by a saint with his head in clouds, but by a master tactician with his feet on the ground.

Truly the world should belong to singers and dancers.

Dissent, is like a Gurkha’s ‘khukri’ , once it emerges form its sheath it must draw blood before it can be put away again.

Bureaucracy is simultaneously the most crippling of Indian diseases and the highest of Indian art forms.

India has been born and reborn scores of times, and it will be reborn again. India is forever, and India is forever being made.

The instinctive Indian sense that nothing begins and nothing ends. We are all living in an eternal present in which what was and what will be is contained in what is, or to put it in a more contemporary idiom, that life is a series of sequel to history.

“That is the god of jihad,” she said. “That is the god of crusades. They are identical except for their names.”

The place displayed luxury without comfort, ostentation without art. I hated it.

Great wealth breeds great arrogance.

Something in their history has moved them to patience. Wise leaders do not go to war with enemies, not even evil enemies, unless they have thought it through to the end.