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Rabindranath Tagore Berühmte Zitate

„Es ist sehr einfach, glücklich zu sein, aber es ist sehr schwierig, einfach zu sein.“

Rabindranath Tagore

„Ich schlief und träumte, das Leben sei Freude.
Ich erwachte und sah, das Leben war Pflicht.
Ich handelte, und siehe, die Pflicht war Freude.“

Rabindranath Tagore

„Sie können das Meer nicht einfach überqueren, indem Sie stehen und auf das Wasser starren.“

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„Wolken schweben aus anderen Tagen in mein Leben, nicht länger, um Regen oder Sturm abzuwerfen, sondern um meinem Sonnenuntergangshimmel Farbe zu verleihen.“

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„Weine nicht, wenn die Sonne aus deinem Leben untergeht, denn die Tränen lassen dich die Sterne nicht sehen.“

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„Wenn du Tränen vergießt, wenn du die Sonne vermisst, vermisst du auch die Sterne.“

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Rabindranath Tagore Zitate und Sprüche

„Ich bereiste die ganze Erde, um die Flüsse und Berge zu sehen, und ich gab viel Geld aus. Ich unternahm große Anstrengungen. Ich sah alles, aber ich vergaß, gleich vor meinem Haus einen Tautropfen auf einem kleinen Grashalm zu sehen, einen Tautropfen, der in seiner Konvexität die ganze Welt um dich herum spiegelt.“

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Eintrag in Satyajit Rays Poesiealbum (1928)
Engl.: "I have travelled all round the world to see the rivers and mountains, and I have spent a lot of money. I have gone to great lengths. I have seen everything but I forgot to see just outside my house a dewdrop on a little blade of grass, a dewdrop which reflects in its convexity the whole universe around you." - Satyajit Rays Übersetzung aus dem Bengalischen, zitiert nach Prabodh Maitra: 100 Years of Cinema, Nandan, Kalkutta 1995, S. 163, Google Books https://books.google.de/books?id=wwdlAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22I+have+travelled%22

Anstrengung , Über Geld , Berg , Über die Welt

„Ich will jedoch nicht zögern, das Große in Europa anzuerkennen, denn Großes hat es ohne Zweifel. Wir können nicht anders als es von Herzen lieben und bewundern – dies Europa, von dem sich in Kunst und Literatur ein unerschöpflicher Strom von Schönheit und Wahrheit ergießt, alle Länder und Zeiten befruchtend; dies Europa, das mit titanischem Geiste in nie ermüdender Kraft die Höhen und Tiefen des Weltalls durchmißt, das unendlich Große und unendlich Kleine mit seinem Wissen umfaßt und alle Kräfte von Herz und Verstand dazu verwendet, die Kranken zu heilen und all das Elend zu mildern, das wir bis jetzt in hoffnungsloser Resignation hinnahmen, dies Europa, das die Erde dahin bringt, uns mehr Frucht zu spenden, als möglich schien, indem es mit Güte und Gewalt alle großen Kräfte der Natur in den Dienst des Menschen zwingt.“

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Nationalismus, Neuer Geist-Verlag, Leipzig 1918, S. 77 f., Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/nationalismusdeu00tago/page/77
Original engl.: "I must not hesitate to acknowledge where Europe is great, for great she is without doubt. We cannot help loving her with all our heart, and paying her the best homage of our admiration, – the Europe who, in her literature and art, is pouring an inexhaustible cascade of beauty and truth fertilizing all countries and all time; the Europe who, with a mind which is titanic in its untiring power, is sweeping the height and the depth of the universe, winning her homage of knowledge from the infinitely great and the infinitely small, applying all the resources of her great intellect and heart in healing the sick and alleviating those miseries of man which up till now we were contented to accept in a spirit of hopeless resignation; the Europe who is making the earth yield more fruit than seemed possible, coaxing and compelling the great forces of nature into man's service." - Nationalism, The Macmillan Company, New York 1917, S. 82 f., Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/nationalism00tagogoog/page/n89

Über Universum , Über Schönheit , Zeit , Über Kunst

„DER GLEICHE Strom des Lebens, // der Tag und Nacht durch meine Adern // fließt, fließt durch die Welt und tanzt in // rhythmischen Maßen.“

Rabindranath Tagore buch Gitanjali

Gitanjali (Sangesopfer), Kurt Wolff Verlag, München o. J., Nr. 69, Projekt Gutenberg-DE http://gutenberg.spiegel.de/buch/gitanjali-6916/2
Engl.: "[The] same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures." - Gitanjali (Song Offerings), Macmillan & Co., London 1913, Nr. 69, Wikisource

Nacht , Über Leben , Über die Welt

„Müde schlief ich auf müßigem Bette // Im Wahn, daß die Arbeit ein Ende hätte. // Am Morgen, da wachte ich auf und fand, // Daß mein Garten voll Blumenwundern stand.“

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Geheimes Wachsen, in: Lyrik des Ostens, Carl Hanser Verlag, München 1952, S. 223, Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.286211/page/n221
Engl.: "I was tired and sleeping on my idle bed and imagined all work had ceased. In the morning I woke up and found my garden full with wonders of flowers." - Gitanjali (Song Offerings), Macmillan & Co., London 1913, Nr. 81, Wikisource

„Das Hauptziel des Lehrens ist nicht, Bedeutungen zu erklären, sondern an die Tür des Geistes zu klopfen.“

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Jivansmriti (Meine Lebenserinnerungen), zitiert nach Christine Kupfer: Bildung zum Weltmenschen. Rabindranath Tagores Philosophie und Pädagogik, Transcript, Bielefeld 2014, ISBN 978-3-8376-2544-8, S. 303, Google Books https://books.google.de/books?id=ur7WBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA303&dq=%22das+hauptziel%22
Engl.: "The main object of teaching is not to explain meanings, but to knock at the door of the mind." - My Reminiscences, The Macmillan Company, New York 1917, S. 116, Internet Archive https://archive.org/stream/MyReminiscences-English-RabindranathTagore/tagorememory#117

Rabindranath Tagore: Zitate auf Englisch

“The fountain of death makes the still water of life play.”

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Stray Birds (1916)

“My debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy; yet I come to ask for my good, I quake in fear lest my prayer be granted.”

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Gitanjali http://www.spiritualbee.com/gitanjali-poems-of-tagore/ (1912)

“Do not say, "It is morning," and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a new-born child that has no name.”

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“According to the Upanishads, the complete aspect of Truth is in the reconciliation on the finite and the infinite, of everchanging things and the eternal spirit of perfection. When in our life and work the harmony between these two is broken, then either our life is thinned into a shadow, or it becomes gross with accumulations.”

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"Talks in China",1924. Reprinted in Rabindranath Tagore and Mohit K. Ray, Essays (2007, p. 735).

“God, the Great Giver, can open the whole universe to our gaze in the narrow space of a single land.”

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Jivan-smitri

“I touch God in my song
as the hill touched the far-away sea
with its waterfall.”

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Fireflies (1928)

“I thought that my invincible power would hold the world captive, leaving me in a freedom undisturbed. Thus night and day I worked at the chain with huge fires and cruel hard strokes. When at last the work was done and the links were complete and unbreakable, I found that it held me in its grip.”

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Gitanjali http://www.spiritualbee.com/gitanjali-poems-of-tagore/ (1912)

“The wise man warns me that life is but a dewdrop on the lotus leaf.”

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The Gardener http://www.spiritualbee.com/love-poems-by-tagore/ (1915)

“He who wants to do good knocks at the gate; he who loves finds the gate open.”

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“The light of the stars travels millions of miles to reach the earth, but it cannot reach our hearts — so many millions of miles further off are we!”

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Glimpses of Bengal http://www.spiritualbee.com/tagore-book-of-letters/ (1921)

“The truth comes as conqueror only because we have lost the art of receiving it as guest.”

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The Fourfold Way of India (1924); this has become paraphrased as "Truth comes as conqueror only to those who have lost the art of receiving it as friend."

“The idea of the Nation is one of the most powerful anaesthetics that Man has invented. Under the influence of its fumes the whole people can carry out its systematic programme of the most virulent self-seeking without being in the least aware of its moral perversion,-in fact feeling dangerously resentful if it is pointed out.”

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"Nationalism in the West", 1917. Reprinted in Rabindranath Tagore and Mohit K. Ray, Essays (2007, p. 465). Also cited in Parmanand Parashar, Nationalism: Its Theory and Principles in India (1996, p. 212), and Himani Bannerji, Demography and Democracy: Essays on Nationalism, Gender and Ideology. (2011, p.179).

“What India has been, the whole world is now. The whole world is becoming one country through scientific facility. And the moment is arriving when you also must find a basis of unity which is not political. If India can offer to the world her solution, it will be a contribution to humanity. There is only one history — the history of Man. All national histories are merely chapters in the larger one.”

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"Nationalism in the West", 1917. Reprinted in Rabindranath Tagore and Mohit K. Ray, Essays (2007, p. 492).

“Knowledge is partial, because our intellect is an instrument, it is only a part of us, it can give us information about things which can be divided and analysed, and whose properties can be classified part by part. But Brahma is perfect, and knowledge which is partial can never be a knowledge of him.”

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Sādhanā : The Realisation of Life http://www.spiritualbee.com/spiritual-book-by-tagore/ (1916)

“I saw, all of a sudden, an odd-looking bird making its way through the water to the opposite bank, followed by a great commotion. I found it was a domestic fowl which had managed to escape impending doom in the galley by jumping overboard and was now trying frantically to swim across. It had almost gained the bank when the clutches of its relentless pursuers closed on it, and it was brought back in triumph, gripped by the neck. I told the cook I would not have any meat for dinner. I really must give up animal food. We manage to swallow flesh only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing we do. There are many crimes which are the creation of man himself, the wrongfulness of which is put down to their divergence from habit, custom, or tradition. But cruelty is not of these. It is a fundamental sin, and admits of no argument or nice distinctions. If only we do not allow our heart to grow callous, its protest against cruelty is always clearly heard; and yet we go on perpetrating cruelties easily, merrily, all of us ⎯ in fact, any one who does not join in is dubbed a crank. … if, after our pity is aroused, we persist in throttling our feelings simply in order to join others in their preying upon life, we insult all that is good in us. I have decided to try a vegetarian diet.”

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Glimpses of Bengal http://www.spiritualbee.com/tagore-book-of-letters/ (1921)

“While God waits for his temple to be built of love, men bring stones.”

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Fireflies (1928)

“To Indians the idea of the transmigration of the soul from animal to man, and man to animal, does not seem strange, and so from our scriptures pity for all sentient creatures has not been banished as a sentimental exaggeration. When I am in close touch with Nature in the country, the Indian in me asserts itself and I cannot remain coldly indifferent to the abounding joy of life throbbing within the soft down-covered breast of a single tiny bird.”

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Glimpses of Bengal http://www.spiritualbee.com/tagore-book-of-letters/ (1921)

“The fish in the water is silent, the animal on the earth is noisy, the bird in the air is singing, But Man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth and the music of the air.”

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Stray Birds (1916)

“In this playhouse of infinite forms I have had my play, and here have I caught sight of him that is formless.”

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Gitanjali http://www.spiritualbee.com/gitanjali-poems-of-tagore/ (1912)

“A very important factor which is making it almost impossible for Hindu-Muslim unity to become an accomplished fact is that the Muslims can not confine their patriotism to any one country. I had frankly asked (the Muslims) whether in the event of any Mohammedan power invading India, they (Muslims) would stand side by side with their Hindu neighbours to defend their common land. I was not satisfied with the reply I got from them… Even such a man as Mr. Mohammad Ali (one of the famous Ali brothers, the leaders of the Khilafat Movement-the compiler) has declared that under no circumstances is it permissible for any Mohammedan, whatever be his country, to stand against any Mohammedan.”

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Rabindranath Tagore, Interview of Rabindranath Tagore in `Times of India', 18-4-1924 in the column, `Through Indian Eyes on the Post Khilafat Hindu Muslim Riots http://hindusamhati.blogspot.com/2013/05/thoughts-of-rabindranath-tagore-on.html Also in A. Ghosh: "Making of the Muslim Psyche" in Devendra Swamp (ed.), Politics of Conversion, New Delhi, 1986, p. 148. And in S.R. Goel, Muslim Separatism – Causes and Consequences (1987).