Today is the most special day for teachers as well as students : Teacher’s day. As we all know, today is the birthday of Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan. He was a scholar of philosophy, an eminent teacher and our second president.
Here are the top 10 quotes of Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan.
1) When we think we know we cease to learn.
2) The true teachers are those who help us think for ourselves.
3) 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.
4) Religion is behavior and not mere belief.
5) 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.
6) 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.
7) 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
8) 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.
9) Man is a paradoxical being – the constant glory and scandal of this world.
10) 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.