Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Quotes

#1. In the literature of France Moliere occupies the same kind of position as Cervantes in that of Spain, Dante in that of Italy, and Shakespeare in that of England. His glory is more than national - it is universal.

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#2. It is not God that is worshipped but the authority that claims to speak in His name. Sin becomes disobedience to authority not violation of integrity.

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#3. True religion is a revolutionary force: it is an inveterate enemy of oppression, privilege, and injustice.

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#4. God is the Soul of all souls - The Supreme Soul - The Supreme Consciousness.

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#5. The ultimate self is free from sin, free from old age, free from death and grief, free from hunger and thirst, which desires nothing and imagines nothing.

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#6. Hinduism is not just a faith. It is the union of reason and intuition that can not be defined but is only to be experienced. Evil and error are not ultimate. There is no Hell, for that means there is a place where God is not, and there are sins which exceed his love.

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#7. I came to see that no Christian leadership can grow from the demanding of rights. And

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#8. Overnight Success Happens Only in Fairy Tales, Trashy Novels, and Bad Movies.

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#9. The main function of a university is not to grant degrees and diplomas, but to develop the university spirit and advance learning. The former is impossible without corporate life, the latter without honours and post-graduate

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#10. We need not seek a cause or a motive or a purpose for that which is, in its nature, eternally self-existent and free.

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#11. The idea of Plato that philosophers must be the rulers and directors of society is practiced in India.

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#12. His essential nature is sat-chit-ananda: (Sat) Absolute Being - He encompasses everything because there is nothing outside of him; (Chit) Absolute Consciousness - He is the complete consciousness

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#13. My ambition is to unfold the sources of India in the profound plane of human nature.

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#14. When we think we know
we cease to learn.

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#15. Before we can build a stable civilization worthy of humanity as a whole, it is necessary that each historical civilization should become conscious of its limitations and it's unworthiness to become the ideal civilization of the world.

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#16. You could be making so much money, and your bank statement gets bigger and bigger, but if you're not psyched to go to work in the morning, it doesn't matter. It sucks. So you wanna just be psyched to see the people that you work with, and have fun with. Then you've won.

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#17. Into the bosom of the one great sea Flow streams that come from the hills on every side, Their names are various as their springs And thus in every land do men bow down To one great God, though known by many names.

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#18. Hinduism is wholly free from the strange obsession of some faiths that the acceptance of a particular religious metaphysics is necessary for salvation, and non-acceptance thereof is a heinous sin meriting eternal punishment in hell.

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#19. The worst sinner has a future, even as the greatest saint has had a past. No one is so good or bad as he imagines.

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#20. It is the intense spirituality of India, and not any great political structure or social organisation that it has developed, that has enabled it to resist the ravages of time and the accidents of history.

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#21. Instead of celebrating my birthday, it would be my proud privilege if 5 September is observed as Teachers' Day.

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

#22. When you live from freelance check to freelance check, your mind is always on "What's the next piece I'm going to write, or draw, that'll pay this month's rent?" And so going out to play ball with my kids was a low priority.

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#23. Samskrit has moulded the minds of our people to the extent to which they themselves are not conscious. Samskrit literature is national in one sense, but its purpose has been universal. That was why it commanded the attention of people who were not followers of a particular culture.

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#24. Just as the Atman (Soul) is the reality underlying the conscious powers of an individual, so the Supreme Soul (God) is the eternal quiet underneath the drive and activity of the universe.

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#25. The true teachers are those who help us think for ourselves.

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#26. Religion is behavior and not mere belief.

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#27. It's something you hope doesn't happen. When you sign on to do a job, you hope you'll be able to get it done. But that's not always in your control.

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#28. Love thy neighbor as thyself because you are your neighbor. It is illusion that makes you think that your neighbor is someone other than yourself.

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#29. Man is a paradoxical being-the constant glory and scandal of this world.

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#30. God lives, feels and suffers in every one of us, and in course of time, His attributes, knowledge, beauty and love will be revealed in each of us.

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