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Ananda Coomaraswamy Quotes on Truth

Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy was a Sri Lankan-born philosopher of art and metaphysics and one of the principal exponents of the Traditionalist school of thought in the twentieth century. This page collects quotes attributed to Ananda Coomaraswamy on the topic of truth, drawn from across the philosopher's works.

Quotes

  • Attributed to Ananda Coomaraswamy:

    “The traditional artist is not an individual but a vehicle of tradition.”

  • Attributed to Ananda Coomaraswamy:

    “Beauty is the radiance of order.”

  • Attributed to Ananda Coomaraswamy:

    “Art is a proper means of religious knowledge.”

  • Attributed to Ananda Coomaraswamy:

    “Time is reckoned by the mind in motion; eternity is the mind at rest.”

  • Attributed to Ananda Coomaraswamy:

    “All philosophies are at last one philosophy.”