Daya Krishna Quotes on Time
Daya Krishna was an Indian philosopher and the most influential figure in the post-independence Indian philosophical scene, professor of philosophy at the University of Rajasthan and the founding editor of the Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research. This page collects quotes attributed to Daya Krishna on the topic of time, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Daya Krishna:
“The Indian philosopher of the present must not be the curator of a museum, but a living thinker in conversation with the past.”
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Attributed to Daya Krishna:
“To recover an argument from the past is to make oneself its contemporary.”
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“In fact, the very large proliferation of the shakhas [‘branches’, channels of transmission], at least as mentioned in the tradition, testifies to the fact that the Rishis of those days treated their Vedic patrimony with a degree of freedom that seems sacrilegious when viewed in the perspective of attitudes with which the Vedas have been traditionally looked at for a long time. (…) the Vedas were regarded in a totally different way in Vedic times. (p.84)”
Indian Philosophy, quoted in An Indian sceptic, 2012 -
“If, for example, one chooses the second century AD, one would discover that ‘the major systems extant at that time – Samkhya, Mimansa, Nyaya and Vaisesika, Jainism, the several schools of Buddhism, and Carvaka – are none of them theistic’. But ‘if one slices instead at, say, the fourteenth century AD, one finds that Nyaya-Vaisesika has become pronouncedly theistic, that Buddhism and Carvaka had disappeared, and that several varieties of theistic Vedanta have come into prominence.’ (p.40) I”
Indian Philosophy, quoted in An Indian sceptic, 2012