Quotes by Ananda K. Coomaraswamy

“We can only suppose that Buddhism has been so much admired mainly for what it is not. A well known modem writer on the subject has remarked that Buddhism in its purity ignored the existence of a Go...”

“What we see in a democracy governed by representatives is not a government for the people but an organized conflict of interests that only results in the setting up of unstable balances of power.”

“What I have sought is to understand what has been said.”

“Those who think of their house as only a machine to live in should judge their point of view by that Neolithic man, who also lived in a house, but a house that embodied a cosmology.”

“What we see in a democracy governed by “representatives” is not a government “for the people” but an organized conflict of interests that only results in the setting up of unstable balances of power.”

“Those who think of their house as only a ‘machine to live in’ should judge their point of view by that Neolithic man, who also lived in a house, but a house that embodied a cosmology.”