The influence of Vedanta on European poetry and philosophy is very great. Every good poet is a Vedantin, I find; and
whoever writes some philosophical treatise has to draw upon Vedanta in some shape or other.
Only some of them do not care to admit this indebtedness, and want to establish their complete originality, as Herbert Spencer and others, for instance.
But the majority do openly acknowledge. And how can they help it -- in these days of telegraphs and railways and newspapers?
- Swami Vivekananda,
Memoirs of European Travel
whoever writes some philosophical treatise has to draw upon Vedanta in some shape or other.
Only some of them do not care to admit this indebtedness, and want to establish their complete originality, as Herbert Spencer and others, for instance.
But the majority do openly acknowledge. And how can they help it -- in these days of telegraphs and railways and newspapers?
- Swami Vivekananda,
Memoirs of European Travel
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