Kanada Quotes
Kanada was an Indian philosopher and the founder of the Vaiseshika school of orthodox Hindu philosophy, traditionally dated to the second or third century BC, whose Vaiseshika Sutras laid out one of the earliest systematic atomist and naturalist philosophies in any tradition. The Vaiseshika offered an austere realism in which all reality is exhaustively classified under six categories of substance, quality, motion, universal, particular, and inherence, while the world of macroscopic objects is understood as the combination of indivisible atoms of the four elements under the ordering of an eternal divine intellect. The quotes below are attributed to Kanada, organized by topic.
Kanada on Knowledge
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Attributed to Kanada:
“Reason proceeds by the analysis of the visible into the invisible that explains it.”
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“Will Durant , Our Oriental Heritage : India and Her Neighbors.”
Two systems of Hindu thought propound physical theories suggestively similar to those of Greece . Kanada, founder of the Vaisheshika philosophy, held that the world was composed of atoms as many in kind as the various elements . The Jains more nearly approximated to Democritus by teaching that all atoms were of the same kind, producing different effects by diverse modes of combination. Kanada beli -
“Will Durant , Our Oriental Heritage : India and Her Neighbors.”
As Gautama is the Aristotle of India, so Kanada is its Democritus. His name, which means the “atom-eater,” suggests that he may be a legendary construct of the historical imagination. The date at which the Vaisheshika system was formulated has not been fixed with excessive accuracy: we are told that it was not before 300 B.C. , and not after 800 A.D. Its name came from vishesha, meaning particular -
“He has rightly brought out the rationality and application of Sanskrit literature in diverse fields”
In physics , the thinker Kanada , explained light and heat as different aspects of the same element, thus anticipating Clarke Maxwell 's Electro-magnetic Theory , which unified different forms of radiant energy . Sankaracharya , in his Advaita thought expanded the concept of unity of matter and energy. Vacaspati recognized light as composed of minute particles emitted by substances, anticipating N -
“H. P. Blavatsky , The Secret Doctrine , Vol. 1 Section V. The Masks of Science. Physics Or Metaphysics?, p. 565 (1888)”
To be at the height of their calling, men of Science have to reject the very possibility of Materialistic doctrines having aught to do with the Atomic Theory; and we find that Lange, Butlerof, Du Bois Reymond—the last probably unconsciously—and several others, have proved it. And this is, furthermore, demonstrated by the fact, that Kanâda in India, and Leucippus and Democritus in Greece, and after -
“John Maxson Stillman , The Story of Alchemy and Early Chemistry (1924)”
The atomistic theory of matter appears in well established and elaborated form in various systems of Hindu philosophy... The oldest of these systems... appears to be that of the Vaiseshika , attributed to Kanada ... Whether or no the... theory antedated Democritus... is... uncertain. Professor Garbe's opinion is that beyond a doubt the Indian theory is a long time after the theory of Leucippus and
Kanada on Nature
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Attributed to Kanada:
“Whatever exists falls under one of six categories: substance, quality, motion, universal, particular, or inherence.”
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Attributed to Kanada:
“The world we see is the gross result of imperceptible atoms in motion.”
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Attributed to Kanada:
“What is composite is impermanent; what is atomic is permanent.”
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Attributed to Kanada:
“Distinct things are distinct because they have particularities at the foundation of their being.”
Kanada on Virtue
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“In: Aruna Goel Good Governance and Ancient Sanskrit Literature , Deep and Deep Publications, 1 January 2003, p. 16-17”
In physics , the thinker Kanada , explained light and heat as different aspects of the same element, thus anticipating Clarke Maxwell 's Electro-magnetic Theory , which unified different forms of radiant energy . Sankaracharya , in his Advaita thought expanded the concept of unity of matter and energy. Vacaspati recognized light as composed of minute particles emitted by substances, anticipating N