Hinduism Quotes - Page 6

• The basic idea underlying religion is to create an atmosphere for the spiritual development of the individual. This being the situation, it is clear that you cannot develop your personality at all in Hinduism.

  B. R. Ambedkar

  Spiritual, Ideas, Personality

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• Gods and goddesses are not what people think they are. Their names are terms with which we try to convey a certain experience, a state of consciousness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Thinking, Names, People

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• I should have been glad to acquire some sort of idea of Hindu theology, ... but the difficulties were too great.

  Mark Twain

  Should Have, Ideas, Difficulty

  Mark Twain (1925). “The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.]”

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• It was my first meeting with a philosophy that confirmed my vague speculations and seemed at once logical and boundless.

  William Butler Yeats

  Philosophy, Firsts, Logical

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. III: Autobiogra”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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• I am a Hindu, I am proud to belong to a religion which has taught the world both tolerance and universal acceptance. We believe not only in universal toleration, but we accept all religions as true.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Believe, Acceptance, Tolerance

  Opening Welcome Address at the World Parliament of Religions, delivered 11 September 1893

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• I know of no system other than Hinduism under which a class has been set apart from generation to generation for the exclusive pursuit of divine knowledge and consigned to voluntary poverty.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Class, Generations, Poverty

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

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• If untouchability is an integral part of Hinduism, the latter is a spent bullet.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Bullets, Latter, Untouchability

  Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “The Message of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• I laugh, I love, I hope, I try I hurt, I need, I fear, I cry.
  And I know you do the same things too,
  So we're really not that different, me and you.

  Collin Raye

  Love, Girlfriend, Hurt

  Song: We're Really Not That Different, Album: I Think About You, 1995

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• Religions in general have to rediscover their roots. In Hinduism and the Koran, animals are described as equals. If you walk into a cathedral and look at the decorations of early Christianity, there are vines, animals, creatures and birds thriving all over the stonework.

  Margaret Atwood

  Animal, Roots, Bird

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• Hinduism would not have been much of a religion if Rama had not steeled his heart against every temptation.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Heart, Temptation, Rama

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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• There's no half-singing in the shower, you're either a rock star or an opera diva.

  Josh Groban

  Funny, Stars, Rocks

  VH1.com, November 23, 2003.

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• Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.

  William James

  Love, Relationship, Marriage

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• The mullahs of the Islamic world and the mullahs of the Hindu world and the mullahs of the Christian world are all on the same side. And we are against them all.

  Arundhati Roy

  Motivational, Christian, Islamic

  David Barsamian, Arundhati Roy (2004). “The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile: Conversations with Arundhati Roy : Interviews”, p.145, South End Press

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• Harijan service is a duty the caste Hindus owe to themselves.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Duty, Castes

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• The only way Hinduism can convert the whole world to cow-protection is by giving an object-lesson in cow-protection and all it means.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Giving, Way

  Mahatma Gandhi, U. R. Rao (1963). “The Way to Communal Harmony”, Ahmedabad, [India] : Navajivan Publishing House

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• Hindu religious literature, indeed all religious literature, is full of illustrations to prove the truth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Religious, Illustration, Literature

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Satyagraha (non-violent Resistance)”

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• My Hindu instinct tells me that all religions are more or less true.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Instinct

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.186, Tara Publishing

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• My life is dedicated to the service of Indians through the religion of nonviolence which I believe to be the root of Hinduism.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Believe, Roots, Life Is

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.101, A&C Black

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• The untouchability of Hinduism is probably worse than that of the modern imperialists.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Modern, Untouchability

  Gandhi (Mahatma) (1924). “Collected works”

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• My whole soul rebels against the idea that Hinduism and Islam represent two antagonistic cultures and doctrines.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Ideas, Two, Soul

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.7, Rajpal & Sons

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• Untouchability is a blot on Hinduism. It is a canker eating into its vitals.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Eating, Untouchability

  Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “Gandhis India: Unity in Diversity”

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• I love working with younger people. I feel like we need to catch up with them. In South Asian art it's important to address the fact that the majority of what we see is Hindu, and based in Hinduism, and that it has a social and cultural history. Islam and Muslim culture are often now figured as these outside invaders who came into India, and this is in the service of a more right-wing nationalist discourse that is Islamophobic. And that's part of the worldwide Islamophobia moment that we're having right now.

  Chitra Ganesh

  Art, People, Islam

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• My respectful study of other religions has not abated my reverence for or my faith in the Hindu scriptures.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Scripture, Study, Respectful

  Mahatma Gandhi, U. R. Rao (1963). “The Way to Communal Harmony”, Ahmedabad, [India] : Navajivan Publishing House

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• Men like me feel that untouchability is no integral part of Hinduism, it is an excrescence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Untouchability, Feels

  Pyarelal, Mahatma Gandhi (1932). “The Epic Fast”

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• Only my death will determine whether I am 'Mohamed Gandhi', Jinnah's slave, destroyer of the Hindu religion or its servant and protector.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Jinnah, Slave, Servant

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