Quotes from Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

My ambition is not only to chronicle but to interpret and reveal the movement of the mind and unfold the sources of India in the profound plane of human nature.

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

His essential nature is sat-chit-ananda: (Sat) Absolute Being - He encompasses everything because there is nothing outside of him; (Chit) Absolute Consciousness - He is the complete consciousness

It is not God that is worshipped but the group or authority that claims to speak in His name. Sin becomes disobedience to authority not violation of integrity.

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

Religion is behavior and not mere belief.

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

The ultimate self is free from sin, free from old age, free from death and grief, free from hunger and thirst, which desires nothing and imagines nothing.

Just as the Atman (Soul) is the reality underlying the conscious powers of an individual, so the Supreme Soul (God) is the eternal quiet underneath the drive and activity of the universe.

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

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

Love thy neighbor as thyself because you are your neighbor. It is illusion that makes you think that your neighbor is someone other than yourself.

It is not God that is worshipped but the authority that claims to speak in His name. Sin becomes disobedience to authority not violation of integrity.

It is the intense spirituality of India, and not any great political structure or social organisation that it has developed, that has enabled it to resist the ravages of time and the accidents of history.

The idea of Plato that philosophers must be the rulers and directors of society is practiced in India.

anubhav?vas?nameva vidy? phalam. The fruit of knowledge, the fruit of vidy? is anubhava.

Discontent with the actual is the necessary precondition of every moral change and spiritual rebirth.

God lives, feels and suffers in every one of us, and in course of time, His attributes, knowledge, beauty and love will be revealed in each of us.

There is death in stagnation. There is life in movement.

Love thy neighbor as thyself because you are your neighbor. It is illusion that makes you think that your neighbor is someone other than yourself.

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

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.