He was a Sunnyasi – a houseless, wandering mendicant, depending on his neighbors for his daily bread; and so long as there is a morsel to divide in India neither priest nor beggar starves.
India Quotes
The Mohammedan Conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization is a precarious thing, whose delicate complex of order and liberty, culture and peace may at any time be overthrown by barbarians invading from without or multiplying within. The Hindus had […]
It is at Bombay that the smell of All Asia boards the ship miles off shore, and holds the passenger’s nose till he is clear of Asia again.
India was the motherland of our race, and Sanskrit the mother of Europe’s languages: she was the mother of our philosophy; mother, through the Arabs, of much of our mathematics; mother, through the Buddha, of the ideals embodied in Christianity; mother, through the village community, of self-government and democracy. Mother India is in many ways […]
The Indians I met loved to talk glowingly about their great, wise civilization, but none of that grandiloquent respect for the whole seemed to be accorded to the human constituents… It seemed that we had fled newfangled cruelties to find old ones, traded atom bombs for blight, the indifference bred by alienation for the indifference […]
We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.
A special charm of studying Indian philosophy today is that it is more truly Western, in the modern, scientific sense, than any system of philosophy that the West has produced. Whereas Western rationalism has broken down under the impact of scientific discoveries, Indian thought cheerfully rides the crest of the wave, and is only pushed […]
In the great books of India, an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy, but large, serene, consistent, the voice of an old intelligence, which in another age and climate had pondered and thus disposed of the questions that exercise us.
Your Hindus certainly sound delightful. But what do they deny? That’s always been my trouble with Indians – to find any proposition they would pronounce false. But truth must surely involve exclusions?
The people of India, even the “ignorant masses” are by centuries of training nearer to the inner realities, than even the cultured elite anywhere else
