Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan: Trending quotes (page 3)

“A stone is not self any more than a self is a stone.”

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

Eminent Indians (1947)

“While no tradition coincides with experience, every tradition is essentially unique and valuable. While all traditions are of value, none is finally binding.”

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

“My ambition is to unfold the sources of India in the profound plane of human nature.”

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

Quotations by 60 Greatest Indians, Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology http://resourcecentre.daiict.ac.in/eresources/iresources/quotations.html,

Nature

“Hindu maxim that theory, speculations, [and] dogma change from time to time as the facts become better understood.”

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Change , Time

“The challenge of Christian critics impelled me to make a study of Hinduism and find out what is living and what is dead in it. My pride as a Hindu, roused by the enterprise and eloquence of Swami Vivekananda, was deeply hurt by the treatment accorded to Hinduism in missionary institutions.”

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

Source: Donald Mackenzie Brown The Nationalist Movement: Indian Political Thought from Ranade to Bhave http://books.google.co.in/books?id=WgwpwG_XspsC&pg=PA153, University of California Press, 1970, p.153.

Study , Hurt , Dead

“Religion is a kind of life or experience.”

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Life , Religion

“The disciples surrounded with cheap marvels and wonders the lonely figure of that serene Soul, simple and austere in his yellow robes, walking with bared feet and bowed head towards Benares.”

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

His views on why the role of Buddhism diminished in India
Eminent Indians (1947)

Soul

“[The moral hero is] fighting for the reshaping of his own society on sounder lines [his] behavior might offend the sense of decorum of the cautious conventionalist.”

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Behavior , Sense , Fight

“The experience or the vision is the artist’s counterpart to the scientific discovery of a principle or law. What the scientist does when he discovers a new law is to give a new ordering to observed facts. The artist is engaged in a similar task. He gives new meaning to our experience and organizes it in a different way due to his perception of subtler qualities in reality.”

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Law , Way , Reality

“Even in the act of composition, the poet is in a state in which the reflective elements are subordinated to the intuitive. The vision, however, is not operative for so long as it continues, its very stress acts as a check on expression.”

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

“Knowledge when acquired must be thrown into logical form and we are obliged to adopt the language of logic since only logic has a communicable language.”

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Knowledge

“If philosophy of religion is to become scientific, it must become empirical and found itself on religious experience.”

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

As quoted in Critical Terms for Religious Studies (2008) http://books.google.co.in/books?id=fSICAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA100 by Mark C. Taylor, p.100

Religion

“The Vedanta is not a religion, but religion itself in its most universal and deepest significance.”

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Religion , Universe

“We can see objects without the medium of the senses and discern relations spontaneously without building them up laboriously. In other words, we can discern every kind of reality directly.”

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Reality , Sense

“Poets and prophets do not go into committees.”

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

Eminent Indians (1947)

“The marginalization of intuition and the abandonment of the experimental attitude in matters of religion has lead Christianity to dogmatic stasis. It is an unfortunate legacy of the course which Christian theology has followed in Europe that faith has come to connote a mechanical adherence to authority. If we take faith in the proper sense of truth or spiritual conviction, religion is faith or intuition.”

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Truth , Faith , Religion , Sense

“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.”

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

Words of Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, quoted by Haile Selassie in an address http://www.jah-rastafari.com/selassie-words/show-jah-word.asp?word_id=radhakrishan during the Indian President's state visit to Ethiopia (13 October 1965), quoted in Foreign Affairs Record Vol. 11-12 (1965-1966) by India Ministry of External Affairs, p. 266; Radhakrishnan is also quoted as having made these remarks in The Visva-Bharati Quarterly Vol. 5 (1939-1940)

Age , World , Religion , Communication

“We become more religious in proportion to our readiness to doubt and not our willingness to believe.”

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

Eminent Indians (1947)