Hermann von Keyserling

Quotes

• ““This philosophical nation par excellence” says Count Keyserling, “has more Sanskrit words for philosophical and religious thought than are found in Greek, Latin and German combined.””
• “Hinduism at its best has spoken the only relevant truth about the way to self-realization in the full sense of the word.”
• “Hinduism has produced the profoundest metaphysics that we know of.”
• “The absolute superiority of India over the West in philosophy; poetry from the Mahabharata, containing the Bhagavad-Gita, “perhaps the most beautiful work of the literature of the world".”

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Key dates

Born

1880

Died

26 April 1946

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Alexander

Gender

male

Citizenship

Russian Empire

Place of birth

Kõnnu

Place of death

Innsbruck

Child

Arnold Keyserling

Occupation

naturalist

Educated at

Imperial University of Dorpat

Languages spoken

German

Family

Keyserlingk

Noble title

count

Field of work

philosophy

Image

Hermann Graf Keyserling 1919. Foto von Richard Wörsching (cropped).jpg

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