Hinduism Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Hinduism loses its right to make a universal appeal if it closes its temples to Harijans.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Temples, Appeals, Universal

  Mahatma Gandhi (1973). “Collected Works”

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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 Hinduism must be a very poor thing if it cannot flourish even under the most adverse influence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Influence, Poor, Adverse

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• Hindu philosophy was one of the greatest beneficiaries of the advent and the teachings of the Lord Buddha. I revere Buddha as a reformer of not only Hinduism but also the world, who has given all of us a new world view and vision which is critical for the survival of all of us and the entire world.

  Narendra Modi

  Motivation, Philosophy, Teaching

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The more I study Hindu scriptures, and the more I discuss them with Brahmins, the more I feel convinced that untouchability is the greatest blot upon Hinduism.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Scripture, Study, Brahmins

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “None High: None Low”

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• Cow preservation is an article of faith in Hinduism.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Cows, Preservation, Articles

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• Idolatry is permissible in Hinduism when it sub serves an ideal.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Idolatry, Ideals

  Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Rabindranath Tagore (1968). “Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India”

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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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• If we would be pure, if we would save Hinduism, we must rid ourselves of this poison of enforced widowhood.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Would Be, Poison, Widowhood

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.213, Rajpal & Sons

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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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