Ananda K. Coomaraswamy Quotes

#1. Becoming is not a contradiction of being but the epiphany of being.

Ananda K. Coomaraswamy

#2. What I have sought is to understand what has been said.

Ananda K. Coomaraswamy

#3. The life or lives of man may be regarded as constituting a curve - an arc of time-experience subtended by the duration of the individual Will to Life.

Ananda K. Coomaraswamy

#4. Those who think of their house as only a 'machine to live in' should judge their point of view by that Neolithic man, who also lived in a house, but a house that embodied a cosmology.

Ananda K. Coomaraswamy

#5. Myth embodies the nearest approach to absolute truth that can be stated in words.

Ananda K. Coomaraswamy

#6. From one point of view becoming is a humiliation, and from another a royal procession.

Ananda K. Coomaraswamy

#7. [...] Buddhism has been so much admired mainly for what it is not.

Ananda K. Coomaraswamy

#8. There is then no sacred or profane, spiritual or sensual, but everything that lives is pure and void.

Ananda K. Coomaraswamy

#9. What we see in a democracy governed by "representatives" is not a government "for the people" but an organized conflict of interests that only results in the setting up of unstable balances of power.

Ananda K. Coomaraswamy