Hermann von Keyserling Quotes
1880–1946 Germany
- Germany
- Non-fiction authors
- Philosophers
Also known as: Hermann Graf Keyserling
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Hinduism at its best has spoken the only relevant truth about the way to self-realization in the full sense of the word.
I have not found in Europe or America, poets, thinkers or popular leaders equal, or even comparable, to those of India today.
Hinduism has produced the profoundest metaphysics that we know of.
The absolute superiority of India over the West in philosophy; poetry from the Mahabharata, containing the Bhagavad-Gita, “perhaps the most beautiful work of the literature of the world".
“This philosophical nation par excellence” says Count Keyserling, “has more Sanskrit words for philosophical and religious thought than are found in Greek, Latin and German combined.”
India has produced the profoundest metaphysics that we know of … the absolute superiority of India over the West in philosophy; poetry from the Mahabharata, containing the Bhagavad Gita, perhaps the most beautiful work of the literature of the world.