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Quotes from Mohandas Gandhi — George Woodcock

1912–1995 Canada

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Much in his career remains unexplained if we forget his insistence that religion and politics were bound inextricably in the common search for Truth.

Mohandas Gandhi (1971)

With an extraordinary persistence he made and kept himself one of the few free men of our time.

Mohandas Gandhi (1971)

Gandhi was a completely unofficial man. He recognized the gulf that lay between the enjoyment of freedom and the exercise of authority.

Mohandas Gandhi (1971)

Unorthodox though he might be, Gandhi fitted into the traditional pattern of the sanyassi who practices non‑attachment in the search for Truth; he was the karma yogin, the man who perfects and purifies himself through action.

Mohandas Gandhi (1971)

Truth conceived as God is of course the Absolute. Truth perceived by man must always be relative, changing according to human contacts developing as men understand better each other, their circumstances and themselves.

Mohandas Gandhi (1971)

Gandhi never set out to develop a fixed and final doctrine, but emphasized that his practice of ahimsa, or nonviolence, was always experimental, that his political struggle like his personal life was part of a continuing quest for Truth as manifested existentially, a quest that could never end because human understanding was incapable of comprehending the Absolute.

Mohandas Gandhi (1971)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: George Woodcock (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.