Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Quotes on God
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan was an Indian philosopher and statesman, the second President of independent India and one of the foremost twentieth-century interpreters of Indian philosophy to the West. This page collects quotes attributed to Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan on the topic of god, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan:
“Religion is not a creed but a search for the meaning of human existence.”
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Attributed to Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan:
“True religion is a revolutionary force.”
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Attributed to Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan:
“It is not God that is worshipped but the group or authority that claims to speak in His name.”
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“In the history of the world, Hinduism is the only religion that exhibits a complete independence and freedom of the human mind, its full confidence in its own powers. Hinduism is freedom, especially the freedom in thinking about God.”
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“Hinduism is therefore not a definite dogmatic creed, but a vast, complex, but subtly unified mass of spirItual thought and realization. Its tradition of the God ward endeavor of the human spirit has been continuously enlarging through the ages.”
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“In the mystic traditions of the different religions we have a remarkable unity of spirit . Whatever religion they may profess, they are spiritual kinsmen. While the different religions in their historic forms bind us to limited groups and militate against the development of loyalty to the world community, the mystics have already stood for the fellowship of humanity in harmony with the spirit of the mystics of ages gone by.”
Remarks on Mysticism ( c . 1940), as quoted by Haile Selassie in "An address during Radhakrishnan's visit to Ethiopia " (13 October 1965), as recorded in Foreign Affairs Record Vol. 11-12 (1965-1966) by India Ministry of External Affairs, p. 266; he is also quoted as having made these remarks in The Visva-Bharati Quarterly Vol. 5 (1939-1940) -
“[Radhakrishnan describes the state of dejection he experienced as a student at Madras Christian College:] 'I was strongly persuaded of the inferiority of the Hindu religion to which I attributed the political downfall of India.... I remember the cold sense of reality, the depressing feeling that crept over me, as a causal relation between the anaemic Hindu religon and our political failure forced itself on my mind.”
Radhakrishnan, 'The Spirit of Man', quoted in Rajiv Malhotra , Indra's Net , p. 316., 1st ed. -
“Radhakrishnan, 'The Spirit of Man', quoted in Rajiv Malhotra , Indra's Net , p. 316., 1st ed.”
[Radhakrishnan describes the state of dejection he experienced as a student at Madras Christian College:] 'I was strongly persuaded of the inferiority of the Hindu religion to which I attributed the political downfall of India.... I remember the cold sense of reality, the depressing feeling that crept over me, as a causal relation between the anaemic Hindu religon and our political failure forced