Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Quotes

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

  Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

  Teacher, Thinking, Helping

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

  Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

  Teacher, My Birthday, Would Be

  "How to be a Good Teacher". Book by Rupal Jain, p. 138, 2013.

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• When we think we know
  we cease to learn.

  Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

  Thinking, Knows, Cease

  Sir Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1952). “Radhakrishnan: An Anthology”

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• 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.

  Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

  Past, Saint, Imagine

  Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Vuppuluri Kalidas (ed.) (1962). “The Radhakrishnan Number: A Souvenir Volume of Appreciations”

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• 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.

  Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

  God, Beauty And Love, Suffering

  Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Daniel E. Bassuk (1987). “Incarnation in Hinduism and Christianity: the myth of the god-man”, Humanities Press Intl

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• 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.

  Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

  Religious, Mean, Errors

  In his preface to an edition of the Bhagavad Gita,

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

  Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

  Justice, Diversity, Enemy

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• Religion is behavior and not mere belief.

  Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

  Religion, Belief, Behavior

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• My ambition is not only to chronicle but to interpret and reveal the movement of the mind and unfold the sources of India in the profound plane of human nature.

  Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

  Ambition, Profound, India

  "Learning is Continuous" by Padma Srinivasan, www.thehindu.com. September 04, 2001.

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• 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.

  Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

  Thinking, Make You Think, Illusion

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

  Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

  God, Spiritual, Soul

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• The word Atman (Soul) means the "breath of life". Atman is the principle of man's life, the Soul that pervades his being, his breath, his intellect and transcends them. Atman is what remains when everything that is not the self is eliminated. It is the unborn and immortal element in man, which is not to be confused with body, mind or intellect.

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  God, Spiritual, Confused

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• 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.

  Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

  Civilization, Humanity, Historical

  Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1949). “Kalki: Or, The Future of Civilization”

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

  Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

  Men, World, Scandal

  "Forbes Book of Quotations: 10,000 Thoughts on the Business of Life". Book by Ted Goodman, 2016.

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

  Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

  God, Self, Needs

  Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Daniel E. Bassuk (1987). “Incarnation in Hinduism and Christianity: the myth of the god-man”, Humanities Press Intl

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• 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.

  Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

  Spiritual, Grief, Self

  Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Daniel E. Bassuk (1987). “Incarnation in Hinduism and Christianity: the myth of the god-man”, Humanities Press Intl

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• 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.

  Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

  Political, India, Spirituality

  Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1969). “Radhakrishnan Reader: An Anthology: Selections from the World-famous Philosopher-statesman's 40 and Odd Books Written Over a Period of 60 Years”

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• 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.

  Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

  People, Mind, Literature

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

  Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

  Integrity, Names, Atheism

  Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, India. Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (1960). “Occasional speeches and writings, October 1952-January 1956”

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• 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.

  Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

  God, Spring, Men

  Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1927). “The Hindú View of Life: Upton Lectures Delivered at Manchester College, Oxford, 1926”

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• Homeopathy did not merely seek to cure a disease but treated a disease as a sign of disorder of the whole human organism. This was also recognized in the Upanishad which spoke of human organs as combination of body mind and spirit. Homoeopathy would pay an important part in the Public Health of the country along with other systems. Medical facilities in India are so scanty that Homoeopathy can confidently visualize a vast field of expansion.

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  Country, Mind, Important

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• The self (Soul) is the constant-witness consciousness. Through all months, seasons and years, through all divisions of time, the past, present and future the consciousness remains one and self luminous. It neither rises nor sets. 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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  God, Grief, Past

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• 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.

  Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

  God, Spiritual, Reality

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• 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.

  Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

  Religious, Acceptance, Punishment

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• 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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  God, Essentials, Consciousness

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