Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Quotes on Mind
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 mind, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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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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“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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“The Gita appeals to us not only by its force of thought and majesty of vision, but also by its fervor of devotion and sweetness of spiritual emotion.”
Quoted from Londhe, S. (2008). A tribute to Hinduism: Thoughts and wisdom spanning continents and time about India and her culture p 46 ff -
“[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.