Quotes about Hinduism
"In
the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy
of the Bhagavad Gita in comparison with which our modern world and its
literature seems puny."
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
Source:
The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau - Walden 1989. Princeton Univ. Press.
Pg 298.
"The
writers of the Indian philosophies will survive, when the British dominion
in India shall long have ceased to exist, and when the sources which
it yielded of wealth and power are lost to remembrances."
Lord Warren Hastings (1754-1826)
Source:
Philosophy of Hinduism - An Introduction By T. C. Galav Universal Science-Religion.
Pg 19.
"I owed a magnificent day to the Bhagavad-Gita. It was as if
an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy, but large, serene,
consistent, the voice of an old intelligence which in another age and
climate had pondered and thus disposed of the same questions which exercise
us."
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
Source:
Philosophy of Hinduism - An Introduction By T. C. Galav Universal Science-Religion.
Pg 65.
"So
far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man
or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun
visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing
overlooked."
"Land of religions, cradle of human race, birthplace of human
speech, grandmother of legend, great grandmother of tradition. The land
that all men desire to see and having seen once even by a glimpse, would
not give that glimpse for the shows of the rest of the globe combined."
"India had the start of the whole world in the beginning of things.
She had the first civilization; she had the first accumulation of material
wealth; she was populous with deep thinkers and subtle intellects; she
had mines, and woods, and a fruitful soul."
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
Source:
Soul of a Nation - The Hindustan Times