Sanskrit Quotes
A curated collection of the best quotes about Sanskrit.
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“Sanskrit is the language of God.”
“The very sound of the Sanskrit is musical.”
“[Sanskrit is] the great spiritual language of the world.”
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“Sanskrit is the divine language.”
“Sanskrit and prestige go together in India.”
“The main point is that Sanskrit had long been an Indian language when it made its appearance in history.”
“Old India had a high rate of literacy, particularly because of its educational system, its Sanskrit and its gurukulams.”
“God spoke once. He spoke in Sanskrit, and that is the divine language.”
“Sanskrit should be deleted from the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution because it is a foreign language brought to the country by foreign invaders - the Aryans.”
“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 is true that the Indian is almost entirely a philosophical or rather a religious language, and perhaps none, not even excepting the Greek, is so philosophically clear and sharply defined.”
“I called up the Devil and he appeared .... He is an able diplomat and speaks eloquently of Church and State. He is somewhat pale but small's the wonder. for he is now studying Sanskrit and Hegel.”
“There are many points of great interest to the student of language, in the long history of the speech [of India]; and it has been truly said that Sanskrit is to the science of language what mathematics is to astronomy.”
“The very sound of Sanskrit words gives a prestige and a power and a strength to the race.”
“A university teaches. What does it teach? It must obviously teach all the languages in which the great literatures which have been preserved were written — Hebrew, Arabic, Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, French, Italian, German, Scandinavian, and English.”
“Since the Renaissance there has been no event of such worldwide significance in the history of culture as the discovery of Sanskrit literature in the latter part of the eighteenth century.”
“The consonantal division of the alphabet of the Sanskrit language was a more wonderful feat of human genius than any the world has yet seen.”
“The introduction of the use of Sanskrit as the lingu-franca is a turning point in the mental history of the Indian people. The causes that preceded it, the changes in the intellectual standpoint that went with it, the results that followed on both, are each of them of vital importance.”