21 Quotes by Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

Religion is behavior and not mere belief.

My ambition is to unfold the sources of India in the profound plane of human nature.

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. Evil and error are not ultimate. There is no Hell, for that means there is a place where God is not, and there are sins which exceed his love.

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

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.

Into the bosom of the one great sea Flow streams that come from the hills on every side, Their names are various as their springs And thus in every land do men bow down To one great God, though known by many names.

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

Hinduism is wholly free from the strange obsession of some faiths that the acceptance of a particular religious metaphysics is necessary for salvation, and non-acceptance thereof is a heinous sin meriting eternal punishment in hell.

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