Tao Te Ching
Rabindranath Tagore
1861 – 1941 CE
Author, painter, “the greatest poet India has produced,” and song writer of over 2000 songs including the national anthems for India, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka; Tagore was the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. A universal internationalist, he was strongly against nationalism and introduced Indian culture to the West as well as Western culture to India. A close friend of Gandhi, he renounced his British knighthood and gave voice to the deeper wisdom within all strata of society: rich and poor, powerful and humble.
Eras
Western
Post-Romantic Age (1850 – 2018 CE)Gilded Age (1860 – 1900 CE)
Great Depression (1929 – 1941 CE)
Victorian (1837 – 1901 CE)
Roaring Twenties (1920 – 1929 CE)
Chinese
Qing dynasty (1644 – 1912 CE)Unlisted Sources
Stray Birds (1916)
Quotes by Rabindranath Tagore (10 quotes)
“Beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love.”
Chapters:
54. Planting Well
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“Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.”
Chapters:
24. Unnecessary Baggage
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“He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.”
Chapters:
52. Cultivating the Changeless
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“I will not buy glass for the price of diamonds, and I will never allow patriotism to triumph over humanity.”
Chapters:
78. Water
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“The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.”
Chapters:
49. No Set Mind
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“God Respects Me When I Work, He Loves Me When I Sing”
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“Will Durant has taken trouble in this book [The Case For India], trouble to know. The miserable conditions of the country he has seen with his own eyes, but, what is rare with most tourists, he has explored the history of our misfortune. Will Durant treated us with the respect due to human beings. I noticed in his book a poignant note of pain at the suffering and indignity of the people who are not his kindred, an indignant desire to be just to the defeated race. I know that the author will have small chance to reward in popularity from his readers but he, I am sure, has his noble compensation in upholding the best tradition of the West in its championship of freedom and fair play.”
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“The world as an art is the play of the Supreme Person reveling in image-making. You may call it maya and pretend to disbelieve it; but the great artist, the Mayavin, is not hurt. For art is maya, it has no other explanation but that it seems to be what it is.”
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“Men are cruel, but Man is kind.”
from Stray Birds (1916)
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“Mahavira proclaimed in India that religion is a reality and not a mere social convention. It is really true that salvation can not be had by merely observing external ceremonies. Religion cannot make any difference between man and man.”
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Quotes about Rabindranath Tagore (1 quotes)
“In all his writing, he ranged himself on the side of freedom—political, social, personal. But the surest sign of his genius was the paradoxical way in which he imagined a metaphysical freedom... for Tagore, it was life that meant confinement in subjectivity, while death was liberation into the free play of being.”
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