Hermann von Keyserling

"Benares is holy. Europe, grown superficial, hardly understands such truths anymore.....I feel nearer here than I have ever done to the heart of the world; here I feel everyday as if soon, perhaps even…"

"Hinduism has produced the profoundest metaphysics that we know of."

"“This philosophical nation par excellence” says Count Keyserling, “has more Sanskrit words for philosophical and religious thought than are found in Greek, Latin and German combined."

"The absolute superiority of India over the West in philosophy; poetry from the Mahabharata, containing the Bhagavad-Gita, “perhaps the most beautiful work of the literature of the world."

"Thus the unique formative power of Islam depends on the unique nature of their God. Allah deserves the name of the Master of Armies far more than Jehovah, far more than the Christian God. He is an aut…"

"Hinduism at its best has spoken the only relevant truth about the way to self-realization in the full sense of the word."

"I have not found in Europe or America, poets, thinkers or popular leaders equal, or even comparable, to those of India today."