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Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Quotes

1888–1975 India

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Also known as: S. Radhakrishnan

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In the mystic traditions of the different religions we have a remarkable unity of spirit.

Remarks on Mysticism (1940)

Man is a paradoxical being-the constant glory and scandal of this world.

Instead of celebrating my birthday, it would be my proud privilege if 5 September is observed as Teachers' Day.

The red, the orange, the Bhagwa colour, represents the spirit of renunciation.

Feeling the unity of himself and the universe, the man who lives in spirit is no more a separate and self-centered individual but a vehicle of the universal spirit.

Intuition is a distinct form of experience.

The green is there, our relation to the soil, our relation to the plant life here, on which all other life depends.

Hindu maxim that theory, speculations, [and] dogma change from time to time as the facts become better understood.

The Flag links up the past and the present. It is the legacy bequeathed to us by the architects of our liberty.

All art is the expression of experience in some medium.

Here we are Putting in the very centre the white, the white of the Sun's rays. The white means the path of light.

We cannot attain purity, we cannot gain our goal of truth, unless we walk in the path of virtue. The Asoka's wheel represents to us the wheel of the Law, the wheel Dharma.

We become more religious in proportion to our readiness to doubt and not our willingness to believe.

Eminent Indians (1947)

If philosophy of religion is to become scientific, it must become empirical and found itself on religious experience.

Critical Terms for Religious Studies (2008)

The provincial cultures of the past and the present have not always been loyal to the true interests of the human race.

Kalki : or The Future of Civilization (1929)

The white means the path of light. …the ideal light, the light of truth…

The world today is tending to function as one organism.

Kalki : or The Future of Civilization (1929)

It is true that internationalism is growing. Economists warn us that war does not pay. It is bad business.

Kalki : or The Future of Civilization (1929)

The East and the West are not so sharply divided as the alarmists would make us believe.

Kalki : or The Future of Civilization (1929)

The success of art is measured by the extent to which it is able to render experiences of one dimension into terms of another.

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