Lala Har Dayal > Quotes

“Every change and every event must have a cause. This relation converts chaos into a cosmos and makes knowledge possible.”
― Lala Har Dayal, Hints for Self Culture

“Intellect should be employed chiefly as an instrument of growth, and social service.”
― Lala Har Dayal, Hints for Self Culture

“As T. H. Huxley said: "Science is trained and organized common sense.”
― Lala Har Dayal, Hints for Self Culture

“And ‘tis my faith that every flower Enjoys the air it breathes.”
― Lala Har Dayal, Hints for Self Culture

“You may believe that mathematics is a dull subject but it is you who are dull, not the mathematics.”
― Lala Har Dayal, Hints for Self Culture

“We learn Virtue by spontaneous inspiration, not through dull exhortation.”
― Lala Har Dayal, Hints for Self Culture

“civil and domestic....”
― Lala Har Dayal, Hints for Self Culture

“Astronomy is the sure cure for mental and spiritual anaemia.”
― Lala Har Dayal, Hints for Self Culture

“Great art is the product of great social ideals”
― Lala Har Dayal, Hints for Self Culture

“Progress is thus the gift bestowed on us by all the eager, active forward- looking men and women, who have lived and died during five hundred centuries or more.”
― Lala Har Dayal, Hints for Self Culture