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Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Inspiring Quotes and Saying

Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan is a philosopher, a teacher, a statesman. He is the first Vice-President and second President of India. Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan is the man to whom India’s Teachers’ Day is dedicated on his birthday September 5 every year. He was one of the most learned minds of the country and believed.

Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan and his life

Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan holds MA in Philosophy and served as a faculty member in the Department of Philosophy at Madras Presidency College. Imparting students with the best education possible was one of his greatest aims.

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

He taught at the University of Mysore and the University of Calcutta, Oxford University. His Students respected him a lot. Once, when some of his students requested him to let them celebrate his birthday, he gently said:

Saying by Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

“Instead of celebrating my birthday separately, it would be my proud privilege, if 5th September is observed as Teachers’ Day.”
– Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

And so, September 5 is observed as Teachers’ Day in India.

The philosopher, teacher and statesman passed away on April 17, 1975. On his death anniversary, we bring you some of his inspiring quotes.

Here are inspiring quotes from Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan:

“Man is a paradoxical being — the constant glory and scandal of this world.”
-Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

Education Quotes by Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

“Teachers should be the best minds in the country. “
– Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

Learning Quotes by Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

“When we think we know we cease to learn.”
– Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

“It takes centuries to make a little history; it takes centuries of history to make a tradition.”
– Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

“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.”
– Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

“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.”
– Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

“Before we can build a stable civilization worthy of humanity as a whole, it is necessary that each historical civilization should become conscious of its limitations and it’s unworthiness to become the ideal civilization of the world.”
– Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

“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.”
– Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

“The true teachers are those who help us think for ourselves.”
– Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

“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.”
– Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

“The word Atman (Soul) means the “breath of life”. Atman is the principle of man’s life, the Soul that pervades his being, his breath, his intellect and transcends them. Atman is what remains when everything that is not the self is eliminated. It is the unborn and immortal element in man, which is not to be confused with body, mind or intellect.”
– 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.”
– Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

“The self (Soul) is the constant-witness consciousness. Through all months, seasons and years, through all divisions of time, the past, present and future the consciousness remains one and self luminous. It neither rises nor sets. 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.”
– Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

“Man is a paradoxical being – the constant glory and scandal of this world.”
-Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

“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.”
– Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

“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.”
– Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

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

“Man is a paradoxical being-the constant glory and scandal of this world.”
– Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

“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.”
– Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

“True religion is a revolutionary force: it is an inveterate enemy of oppression, privilege, and injustice.”
– Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

“God is the Soul of all souls – The Supreme Soul – The Supreme Consciousness.”
– Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

“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.”
– Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

Inspiring Quotes by Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

“Religion is behavior and not mere belief.”
– Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

“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.”
– Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

“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.”
– Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

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