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 […]
India Quotes
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
The ant-heap behavior of modern human society, with its soul-destroying mechanical routine and organized aggression and violence, is only one of the negative aspects of the present crisis. Thorough discontentment with the inherited Western – Christian – tradition, especially with the ‘God out there’ dogma, has kindled a large-scale authentic search for truth in the […]
Indians love to reduce the prosaic to the mystic.
India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to do for herself and the human peoples. And that which must seek now to awake is not anglicised oriental people, docile pupil of the West and doomed to repeat the cycle of the […]
The story of India’s journey to independence and division remains a contentious and hugely sensitive area of history. In Britain it is viewed as an embarrassment, in Bangladesh as a betrayal, in India as a mixed blessing, and in Pakistan as a matter too tender even to be seriously discussed.
