“India is a civilization where the principle and philosophy of sacrifice is ingrained as part of our upbringing.” PhilosophyPrinciplesSacrificeCivilizationIndiaUpbringing Author:Narendra Modi
“The tantras are ancient sacred books of India and Tibet. The tantras detail specific means for attaining liberation.” MeanBookPhilosophyIndiaSacredAncientDetailsLiberationTantraTibet Author:Frederick Lenz
“I had a teacher's degree and a degree in Oriental Philosophy from the University of Massachusetts. I thought I was going to India to study but all of a sudden, I had a career in music. It really surprised me.” PhilosophyCareersStudyTeacherDegreesIndiaUniversityMassachusetts Author:Buffy Sainte-Marie
“Good Governance cannot remain merely a philosophy. Concrete steps have to be taken for realizing its goals.” PhilosophyGoalRealizingStepsTakenIndiaConcreteGovernanceGood Governance Author:Narendra Modi
“In the west we think of yoga as an exercise programme, when actually where it's from in India it's a whole philosophy. The Asanas and the exercise programme are one tiny aspect of it, and so it really, really fascinates me.” ThinkingPhilosophyWholeExerciseYogaAspectIndiaWestTinyProgrammesAsana Author:Jayne Middlemiss
“Jan Dhan Yojana is at the core of our philosophy of 'Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas' & we will work towards its success.” PhilosophyIndiaCoreGovernance Author:Narendra Modi
“Hindu philosophy was one of the greatest beneficiaries of the advent and the teachings of the Lord Buddha. I revere Buddha as a reformer of not only Hinduism but also the world, who has given all of us a new world view and vision which is critical for the survival of all of us and the entire world.” WorldPhilosophyMotivationGivenViewsVisionLordTeachingSurvivalIndiaCriticalNew WorldHinduismAdventWorld ViewReformersBeneficiariesLord Buddha Author:Narendra Modi
“Yoga is a philosophy of discipline and meditation that transforms the spirit and makes the individual a better person in thought, action, knowledge and devotion.” PersonsPhilosophyActionSpiritIndividualMeditationDisciplineYogaIndiaDevotionBetter Person Author:Narendra Modi
“There is space in its philosophy for everyone which is one reason why India is a home to every single religion in the world.” WorldReasonPhilosophyHomeSpaceIndiaReason Why Author:H. G. Wells
“India has left a deeper mark upon the history the philosophy and the religion of mankind than any other terrestrial unit in the universe.” PhilosophyUniverseLeftMankindIndiaMarkDeeperUnits Author:George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
“The so-called Philosophy of India is even more blowsy and senseless than the metaphysics of the West. It is at war with everything we know of the workings of the human mind, and with every sound idea formulated by mankind. If it prevailed in the whole modern world we'd still be in the Thirteenth Century; nay, we'd be back among the Egyptians of the pyramid age. Its only coherent contribution to Western thought has been theosophy-and theosophy is as idiotic as Christian Science. It has absolutely nothing to offer a civilized white man.” IfsKnowsMenWorldMindHumansHas BeensStillsIdeasWarPhilosophyWholeAgeChristianSoundWhiteModernMankindCenturyOffersIndiaWestWesternContributionCivilizedHuman MindMetaphysicsWhite ManModern WorldPyramidsAbsolutely NothingIdioticChristian Science Author:H. L. Mencken
“I never really wanted to have a Guru, I was more interested in Buddhist philosophy and meditation, and had a psychological background in college, but he had so much love. To be with him, there was nowhere else to be and nothing else to do. Nothing he taught, philosophy or meditation, are the things I went to India to look for, or was interested in, but he sort of jumped into my heart and then pulled, he pried it open.” LooksHeartPhilosophyWantedMeditationTaughtCollegeMy HeartIndiaBackgroundsPsychologicalBuddhistGuruMuch LoveBuddhist Philosophy Author:Surya Das
“Although many swamis and yogis had come from India to the West, Prabhupada was the only one with the purity and devotion to establish India's ancient Krishna conscious philosophy around the world on its own terms-not watered down, but as it is.” WorldPhilosophyTermConsciousIndiaWestAncientDevotionAround The WorldPurityKrishnaYogi Author:Mukunda Goswami
“The Bhagavad-Gita is the most systematic statement of spiritual evolution of endowing value to mankind. It is one of the most clear and comprehensive summaries of perennial philosophy ever revealed; hence its enduring value is subject not only to India but to all of humanity.” PhilosophySpiritualValuesHumanityClearSubjectsMankindEvolutionIndiaEndureStatementsComprehensiveSystematicGitaSummarySpiritual Evolution Author:Aldous Huxley
“After the conversations about Indian philosophy, some of the ideas of Quantum Physics that had seemed so crazy suddenly made much more sense.” MadeIdeasPhilosophyTimeCrazyConversationIndiaPhysicsIndianHinduismQuantumQuantum PhysicsAncient India Author:Werner Heisenberg
“It is true that even across the Himalayan barrier India has sent to the west, such gifts as grammar and logic, philosophy and fables, hypnotism and chess, and above all numerals and the decimal system.” PhilosophyLogicIndiaWestChessBarriersHinduismGrammarFablesDecimalsNumerals Author:Will Durant
“India was the motherland of our race, and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages: she was the mother of our philosophy; mother, through the Arabs, of much of our mathematics; mother, through the Buddha, of the ideals embodied in Christianity; mother, through the village community, of self-government and democracy. Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all.” WaySelfPhilosophyGovernmentMotherLanguageCommunityRaceChristianityDemocracyEuropeIdealsIndiaMathematicsIndianVillageHinduismSelf-governmentRepublic DaySanskritHappy Independence Day IndiaMotherlandIndia Independence DayIndian Independence Day Author:Will Durant
“India was China's teacher in religion and imaginative literature, and the world's teacher in trignometry, quandratic equations, grammar, phonetics, Arabian Nights, animal fables, chess, as well as in philosophy, and that she inspired Boccaccio, Goethe, Herder, Schopenhauer, Emerson, and probably also old Aesop.” WorldWellsPhilosophyNightLiteratureAnimalTeacherIndiaInspiredChinaChessEquationsGrammarImaginativeFablesArabianArabian NightsPhonetics Author:Lin Yutang
“When we read with attention the poetical and philosophical monuments of the East--above all, those of India, which are beginning to spread in Europe--we discover there many a truth, and truths so profound, and which make such a contrast with the meanness of the results at which European genius has sometimes stopped, that we are constrained to bend the knee before the philosophy of the East, and to see in this cradle of the human race the native land of the highest philosophy.” HumansSometimesPhilosophyResultsRaceAttentionLandGeniusHighestEuropeIndiaPhilosophicalProfoundSpreadEastKneesHuman RaceNativeContrastMonumentCradleMeannessNative Land Book:Course of the History of Modern Philosophy Source: Course of the History of Modern Philosophy
“I do not care what philosophy you take up; only I am ready to prove here that throughout the whole of India, there runs a mutual and cordial string of eternal faith in the perfection of humanity, and I believe in it myself. And let that faith be spread over the whole land.” BelievePhilosophyWholeCareRunningFaithHumanityI BelieveLandReadyProveEternalPerfectionIndiaI Believe InSpreadMutualStrings Book:Lectures from Colombo to Almora Source: Lectures from Colombo to Almora
“The food we ate was Indian, and both my mother and father were very deep into the ancient philosophy of India, so it could well have been an Indian household.” WellsHas BeensPhilosophyMotherFatherIndiaAncientIndianHouseholdVery DeepMother And FatherAncient Philosophy Author:Amar Bose