At the same time I should like to emphasis that I have never built up a philosophy of my own or wished to establish a new school of thought. Perhaps the greatest thing I have learnt is never to think for myself; I fully agree with Andre Gide that “Toutes choses sont dites deja” (All things are already known), and what I have sought is to understand what has been said, while taking no account of the “inferior philosophers”. Holding with Heraclitus that the Word is common to all, and that Wisdom is to know the Will whereby all things are steered, I am convinced with Jeremias that the human cultures in all their apparent diversity are but the dialects of one and the same language of the spirit, that there is a “common universe of discourse” transcending the differences of tongues.
Ananda Coomaraswamy, after-dinner speech on the occasion of his 70th birthday 1947
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