6 Quotes by Abraham Eraly

Nearly anything that can be said about Hinduism can be contradicted by something else that is equally true about it, and nothing whatever that is said about it can be entirely true or entirely false

What India expected of its artists was craft skill, not creativity; conformity to tradition, not originality

What India expected of its artists was craft skill, not creativity; conformity to tradition, not originality.

Nearly anything that can be said about Hinduism can be contradicted by something else that is equally true about it, and nothing whatever that is said about it can be entirely true or entirely false.

There is something very wrong with a people who consider that the greatest that would ever be has already been, and that the best they can do is to duplicate the past.

The pervasive attitude of fatalism among Indians of all classes was yet another factor affecting the spirit of Indian armies – victory and defeat were not in their hands, they believed; whatever was destined to happen would happen. This.