Indomania Quotes
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“India has created a special momentum in world history as a country to be searched for.”
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“[Hindu philosophy] is the Ocean, we are but its clouds.... The key to everything is in India.”
“Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India.”
“We are constrained to see in this cradle of the human race the native land of the highest philosophy.”
“I am convinced that everything—astronomy, astrology, metempsychosis, etc.—comes to us from the banks of the Ganges.”
“The mythology, as well as the cosmogony of the Egyptians, Greeks and Romans, were borrowed from the doctrines of the Brahmins.”
“Auf Flügeln des Gesanges,
Herzliebchen, trag' ich dich fort,
Fort nach den Fluren des Ganges,
Dort weiß ich den schönsten Ort.”
“Here is the actual source of all languages, all the thoughts and poems of the human spirit; everything, everything without exception comes from India.”
“I believe that the influence of the Sanscrit literature will penetrate not less deeply than did the revival of Greek literature in the fifteenth century.”
“It does not behoove us, who were only savages and barbarians when these Indians and Chinese peoples were civilized and learned, to dispute their antiquity.”
“It has now become very clear to me that the Scandinavian, Egyptian, Greek, Central Asiatic, German and Slavonic gods were nearly all ... born in prehistoric India.”
“In India I found a race of mortals living upon the Earth, but not adhering to it. Inhabiting cities, but not being fixed to them, possessing everything but possessed by nothing.”
“The culture of the Indians, as is known, almost certainly came from Tibet, just as all our arts like agriculture, numbers, the game of chess, etc., seem to have come from India.”
“[From India emanated] "a torrent of light and the flow of reason and Right"... At its starting point, man arose in India, the birthplace of races and of religions, the womb of the world.”
“The literature of India makes us acquainted with a great nation of past ages, which grasped every branch of knowledge, and which will always occupy a distinguished place in the history of the civilization of mankind.”
“And O! how the mind is here washed clean of all its early ingrafted Jewish superstition ! It is the most profitable and elevating reading which is possible in the world. It has been the solace of my life, and will be the solace of my death.”
“India is the world’s cradle : thence it is that the common mother in sending forth her children, even to the utmost west has, in unfading testimony of our origin bequeathed us the legacy of her language, her laws, her morale, her literature and her religion.”
“There’s a huge public relations campaign here. Many of our friends in the other party, and including, I must say, some of the nuts in our own party, soft-heads, have jumped on, have completely bought the Indian line. And India has a very great propaganda line.”