Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi; 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was the preeminent leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India. Employing nonviolent civil disobedience, Gandhi led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. The honorific Mahatma—applied to him first in 1914 in South Africa,—is now used worldwide. He is also called Bapuin India. In common parlance in India he is often called Gandhiji. He is unofficially called the Father of the Nation...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionCivil Rights Leader
Date of Birth2 October 1869
CityPortbandar, India
CountryIndia
This belief in God has to be based on faith which transcends reason.
It is possible to reason out the existence of God to a limited extent.
Even the dog is described by the poet to have received justice under Ramarajya.
I have described Swaraj as Ramarajya and Ramarajya is an impossibility unless we have thousands of Sitas.
Islam appeals to people because it appeals also to reason.
Nothing in the Shastras, which is capable of being reasoned, can stand if it is in conflict with reason.
Faith is a kind of sixth sense which works in cases which are without the purview of reason.
The early Mussalmans accepted Islam not because they knew it to be revealed but because it appealed to their virgin reason.
The satyagrahi strives to reach reason through the heart. The method of reaching the heart is to awaken public opinion.
There is every reason for being cautious about founding new universities till India has digested Her newly acquired freedom.
And whilst he may not claim superiority by reason of learning, I myself must not withold that meed of homage that learning, wherever it resides, always commands.
Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.
Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.
Unlike the animal, God has given man the faculty of reason.