Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Quotes

Instead of celebrating my birthday, it would be my proud privilege if 5 September is observed as Teachers’ Day.

We need not seek a cause or a motive or a purpose for that which is, in its nature, eternally self-existent and free.

Sanskrit literature is national in one sense, but its purpose has been universal.

Man is a paradoxical being – the constant glory and scandal of this world.

God is the Soul of all souls – The Supreme Soul – The Supreme Consciousness.

Atman is what remains when everything that is not the self is eliminated.

Religion is behavior and not mere belief.

True religion is a revolutionary force: it is an inveterate enemy of oppression, privilege, and injustice.

Hinduism is not just a faith. It is the union of reason and intuition that can not be defined but is only to be experienced.

The worst sinner has a future, even as the greatest saint has had a past. No one is so good or bad as he imagines.

The true teachers are those who help us think for ourselves.

Tolerance is the homage which the finite mind pays to the inexhaustibility of the Infinite.

When we think we know we cease to learn.

The greatest gift of life is the dream of a higher life.

Peace can come not by political or economic changes but through a change in human nature.

Knowledge gives us power, love gives us fullness. ……

A life of joy and happiness is possible only on the basis of knowledge and science.

Wealth, power and efficiency are the appurtenances of life and not life itself.

One has to achieve not merely technical efficiency but greatness of Spirit.

Spiritual life is the genius of India.

Human life as we have it is only the raw material for human life as it might be.

Books are the means by which we build bridges between cultures.

All our world organizations will prove ineffective if the truth that love is stronger than hate does not inspire them.

A literary genius, it is said, resembles all, though no one resembles him.