Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan quotes - page 2

In the mystic traditions of the different religions we have a remarkable unity of spirit. Whatever religion they may profess, they are spiritual kinsmen. While the different religions in their historic forms bind us to limited groups and militate against the development of loyalty to the world community, the mystics have already stood for the fellowship of humanity in harmony with the spirit of the mystics of ages gone by. (Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan)
We become more religious in proportion to our readiness to doubt and not our willingness to believe. View quote
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Asceticism is an excess indulged in by those who exaggerate the transcendent aspect of reality. Instead, the rational mystic does not recognize any antithesis between the secular and the sacred. Nothing is to be rejected; everything is to be raised. View quote
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The intolerance of narrow monotheism is written in letters of blood across the history of man from the time when first the tribes of Israel burst into the land of Canaan. The worshippers of the one jealous God are egged on to aggressive wars against people of alien cults. They invoke divine sanction for the cruelties inflicted on the conquered. The spirit of old Israel is inherited by Christianity and Islam. View quote
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To be ignorant is not the special prerogative of man; to know that he is ignorant is his special privilege. View quote
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Psychic experiences are a state of consciousness beyond the understanding of the normal, and the supernormal is traced to the supernatural. View quote
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In any concrete act of thinking the mind's active experience is both intuitive and intellectual. View quote
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We invent by intuition, though we prove by logic. View quote
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All art is the expression of experience in some medium. View quote
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If the new harmony glimpsed in the moments of insight is to be achieved, the old order of habits must be renounced. Moral intuitions result in a redemption of our loyalties and a remaking of our personalities. View quote
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The idea of God is an interpretation of experience. (Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan)
In emotional vibrancy experience is recollected not in tranquility... but in excitement. View quote
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The readjustment [of previously known facts] is so easy that when the insight is attained it escapes notice and we imagine that the process of discovery is only rational synthesis. View quote
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The moral hero, guided as he or she is by the ethical experience, who carves out an adventurous path is akin to the discoverer who brings order into the scattered elements of a science or the artist who composes a piece of music or designs buildings. View quote
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Religious intuition informs, conjoins, and transcends an otherwise fragmentary consciousness. View quote
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Logical knowledge is indirect and symbolic in its character. It helps us to handle and control the object and its workings. View quote
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Religion in terms of "personal experience is an independent functioning of the human mind, something unique, possessing and autonomous character. It is something inward and personal which unifies all values and organizes all experiences. It is the reaction to the whole of man to the whole of reality. It may be called spiritual life, as distinct from a merely intellectual or moral or aesthetic activity or a combination of them. View quote
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Creative insight is not the final link in a chain of reasoning. If it were that, it would not strike us as inspired in its origin. Intuition is not the end, but part of an ever-developing and ever-dynamic process of realization. There is continual system of "checks and balances” between intuition and the logical method of discursive reasoning. Cognitive intuitions are not substitutes for thought, they are challenges to intelligence. Mere intuitions are blind while intellectual work is empty. All processes are partly intuitive and partly intellectual. There is no gulf between the two. View quote
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It takes centuries to make a little history; it takes centuries of history to make a tradition. View quote
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The art of discovery is confused with the logic of proof and an artificial simplification of the deeper movements of thought results. We forget that we invent by intuition though we prove by logic. View quote
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Intuitions are convictions arising out of a fullness of life in a spontaneous way, more akin to sense than to imagination or intellect and more inevitable than either. (Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan)
Wars of religion which are the outcome of fanaticism that prompts and justifies the extermination of aliens of different creeds were practically unknown in Hindu India. View quote
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Religious intuition is a unique form of experience. Religious intuition is more than simply the confluence of the cognitive, aesthetic, and ethical sides of life. However vital and significant these sides of life may be, they are but partial and fragmented constituents of a greater whole, a whole which is experienced in its fullness and immediacy in religious intuition. View quote
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If philosophy of religion is to become scientific, it must become empirical and found itself on religious experience. The Hindu philosophy of religion starts from and returns to an experimental basis. Hindu thinker readily admits of other points of view than his own and considers them to be just as worthy of attention. View quote
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It is for philosophy of religion to find out whether the convictions of the religious seers fit in with the tested laws and principles of the universe. View quote
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