Author: S Radhakrishnan
Publisher: Vision/Orient paperbacks
Year: 1990
Language: English
Pages: 128
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8122200524
Description
Ideas are more potent than facts, even though the ideas may be illusions. Every great achievement is a vision in the soul before it becomes a fact of history. Ideas control the world. They triumph over the blind forces.
IF we contemplate the stupendous movement across the pages of history, we witness the power of ideas. From Plato to Gandhi, Cicero to Lincoln, great ideas have been impressing the minds and conscience of the people, setting afire their imagination, motivating them to rise to new heights, to seek newer means of endeavor, to tread new paths towards reconstruction, greatness and accomplishment.
REVIEWS
Our minds build cathedrals before the workmen have moved a stone; and our minds destroy them before the elements have worn down their arches.
-Prof Alfred N Whitehead
Radhakrishnan belongs to that rare class of scholars who command equal respect and readership in the East and the West.
-Times of India
Contents
PREFACE
New Ideas and Ideals
Knowledge for Salvation
Synthesis of Old ad New
Essence of Indian Culture
The Spirit of Youth
Uplift of Humanity
Art of Living together
Nature of Growing Secularism
Our Democratic Ethos
The Spirit of Holiness
A Commonwealth of Freedom
Keepers of Scientific Conscience
The Test of Civilised Life