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India contains the whole history of philosophy in a nutshell.

— Victor Cousin Attributed

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Religion must exist for the sake of religion, morality for the sake of morality, just as art exists for the sake of art...Beauty can be the path to neither utility, nor goodness, nor holiness; it leads only to itself.

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