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Letter "R" » Rabindranath Tagore Quotes
«Your mission is proving that a love for the earth, and for the things of the earth, is possible without materialism, a love without greed... I entreat you not to be turned by the call of vulgar strength, of stupendous size, by the spirit of storage,»
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
(Essayist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
Call of, entreat, entreating, entreats, greed, mission, proving, storage, stupendous, The Call, vulgar
«The potentiality of perfection outweighs actual contradictions... Existence in itself is here to prove that it cannot be an evil.»
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
(Essayist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Existence,
Perfection
| Keywords:
contradictions, outweigh, outweighing, outweighs, potentiality
«God seeks comrades and claims love, the Devil seeksslaves and claims obedience.»
«In love all the contradiction of existence merge themselves and are lost. Only in love are unity and duality not at variance. Love must be one and two at the same time. Only love is motion and rest in one. Our heart ever changes its place till it fin»
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
(Essayist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Love
| Keywords:
at variance, contradiction, duality, ever-changing, fin, fins, merge, merging, motion, unity, variance
«Men are cruel, but Man is kind.»
«Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.»
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
(Essayist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Day
| Keywords:
blowing, candle, extinguishes, extinguishing, flame, nirvana, The Flame
«Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high; Where knowledge is free; Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls; Where words come out from the depth of truth; Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection; Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way in the dreary desert sand of dead habit; Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever widening thought and action.... into that heaven of freedom, my father, let my country awake.»
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
(Essayist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
domestic, dreary, fragments, My Country, narrow mind, stream, stretches, tireless, widen, widened, widens, without fear
«Science urges us to occupy by our mind the immensity of the knowable world; our spiritual teacher enjoins us to comprehend by our soul the infinite spirit which is in the depth of the moving and changing facts of the world; the urging of our artistic»
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
(Essayist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Science
| Keywords:
artistic, comprehend, depth, enjoin, enjoins, immensity, knowable, occupy, spiritual world, urges, urging
«We live in this world when we love it.»
«There is a moral law in this world which has its application both to individuals and organized bodies of men. You cannot go on violating these laws in the name of your nation, yet enjoy their advantage as individuals. We may forget truth for our conv»
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
(Essayist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Law and lawyers,
Morality,
Truth,
World
| Keywords:
application, organized, violating
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