True modernism is freedom of mind, not slavery of taste. It is independence of thought and action, not tutelage under European schoolmasters. It is science but not its wrong application to life.

Quote by Rabindranath Tagore

Topics: Freedom Quotes, Science Quotes

Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.

Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.

Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims

Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims

From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust,...

From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust,...

God seeks comrades and claims love, the Devil seeks slaves and claims obedience.

God seeks comrades and claims love, the Devil seeks slaves and claims obedience.

We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.

We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.

Our nature is obscured by work done by the compulsion of want or fear. The...

Our nature is obscured by work done by the compulsion of want or fear. The...

Nationality is respectable only when it is on the defense, when it is waging wars...

Nationality is respectable only when it is on the defense, when it is waging wars...

Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive...

Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive...

Those who have everything but thee, my God, laugh at those who have nothing but...

Those who have everything but thee, my God, laugh at those who have nothing but...

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.

We [poets] set men free from their desires.

We [poets] set men free from their desires.

Death belongs to life as birth does. The walk is in the raising of the...

Death belongs to life as birth does. The walk is in the raising of the...

Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are...

Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are...

In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.

In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.

I'm lost in the middle of my birthday. I want my friends, their touch, with...

I'm lost in the middle of my birthday. I want my friends, their touch, with...

In the dualism of death and life there is a harmony. We know that the...

In the dualism of death and life there is a harmony. We know that the...

Truth cannot afford to be tolerant where it faces positive evil.

Truth cannot afford to be tolerant where it faces positive evil.

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but...

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but...

Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.