Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Quotes on Knowledge
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1888–1975), the philosopher who would become the second president of independent India, gave twentieth-century comparative philosophy one of its most influential syntheses in the two-volume Indian Philosophy (1923–27), The Hindu View of Life (1927), and An Idealist View of Life (1932). The framework presents the long Indian philosophical tradition as a sustained development of Vedantic insights into the ultimate unity of consciousness and reality, articulated through the comparative engagement with Western philosophical positions Radhakrishnan held had progressively converged toward the same recognition. The position remains the most influential modern Anglophone presentation of Hindu philosophical thought, though its synthetic reading has been extensively criticized by subsequent specialist scholarship.
Quotes
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Attributed to Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan:
“The end of education is character.”
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Attributed to Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan:
“When we think we know, we cease to learn.”
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Attributed to Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan:
“Reading a book gives us the habit of solitary reflection and true enjoyment.”
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“Hinduism has come to be a tapestry of the most variegated tissues and almost endless diversity of hues.”
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“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)”
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 t