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  • #1
    Abhijit Naskar
    “Perception is like painting a scenery - no matter how beautifully you paint, it will still be a painting of the scenery, not the scenery itself.”
    Abhijit Naskar, Human Making is Our Mission: A Treatise on Parenting

  • #2
    Abhijit Naskar
    “Reality is a construct of chemicals.”
    Abhijit Naskar, 7 Billion Gods: Humans Above All

  • #3
    Abhijit Naskar
    “Neurons giveth and neurons taketh away.”
    Abhijit Naskar, The Film Testament

  • #4
    “I take it as a compliment when somebody calls me crazy. I would be offended if I was one of the sheeple, one of the sleepwalkers in the matrix or part of the collective hallucination we call 'normal”
    Mohadesa Najumi

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  • #6
    Abhijit Naskar
    “Every single human being is neurologically predisposed to be biased in various walks of life. It is biologically impossible to be absolutely free from all biases, nevertheless, the more a person rigorously trains the self to be rational and conscientious, the more that self becomes strong enough to keep the biases in check, never to let them run rampant over the psyche.”
    Abhijit Naskar, We Are All Black: A Treatise on Racism

  • #7
    Abhijit Naskar
    “One way or another we are all biased, but still we have the modern cortical capacity to choose whether or not to let the harmful biases dictate our behavior.”
    Abhijit Naskar, We Are All Black: A Treatise on Racism

  • #8
    Abhijit Naskar
    “Two married partners do not just live with each other, they live in each other, neurologically speaking.”
    Abhijit Naskar, Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy

  • #9
    Abhijit Naskar
    “When two people fall in love, they not only give up their genuine authority over their own lives, but also, they become mutual authorities of the collective life that they build together.”
    Abhijit Naskar, Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy

  • #10
    Abhijit Naskar
    “Compatibility doesn't determine the fate of a marriage, how you deal with the incompatibilities, does.”
    Abhijit Naskar, Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy

  • #11
    Abhijit Naskar
    “Let me tell you a story. There was a student who asked his teacher, what is love? The teacher said go into the field and bring me the most beautiful flower. The student returned with no flower at hand and said, “I found the most beautiful flower in the field but I didn't pick it up for I might find a better one, but when I returned to the place, it was gone.”
    We always look for the best in life. When we finally see it, we take it for granted and after some time start expecting a better one, not knowing that it's the best for us.”
    Abhijit Naskar, Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy

  • #12
    Abhijit Naskar
    “Either one is promiscuous or in a relationship - it cannot be both at the same time.”
    Abhijit Naskar, Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy

  • #13
    Abhijit Naskar
    “What is the point of having a civilization, if we do not practice being civilized!”
    Abhijit Naskar, Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy

  • #14
    Abhijit Naskar
    “A relationship is not just about sex – it is much more than that. Sex is only a tool in love, not love itself.”
    Abhijit Naskar, Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy

  • #15
    Abhijit Naskar
    “What is the point of being humans, if our actions scream with more bestiality than humanity!”
    Abhijit Naskar, Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy

  • #16
    Abhijit Naskar
    “Cheating is an innate evolutionarily programmed desire, especially in men, but it is not a desire that cannot be controlled.”
    Abhijit Naskar, Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy

  • #17
    Abhijit Naskar
    “Marriage is in fact, one of the healthiest social constructs of the civilized society.”
    Abhijit Naskar, Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy

  • #18
    Abhijit Naskar
    “A good marriage, where both partners are exclusively committed to each other, keeps them healthier both physiologically and psychologically, by directly influencing the nervous system and immune system.”
    Abhijit Naskar, Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy

  • #19
    Abhijit Naskar
    “Self-regulation is not simply a moral characteristic. It is biologically healthy for both your mind and the body.”
    Abhijit Naskar, Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy

  • #20
    Abhijit Naskar
    “A human is the one, who would give up a thousand Cleopatras to be with the person he or she loves.”
    Abhijit Naskar, Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy

  • #21
    Abhijit Naskar
    “The neurons create who you are. They create your passions. They create your ambitions. They create your unique identity, based on experiences.”
    Abhijit Naskar, Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy

  • #22
    Abhijit Naskar
    “Cheating in relationship is a sign of self-regulation failure. When it happens ones, it is a mistake. When it happens twice, it is unfortunate. But when it happens thrice or more, it is a pattern indicating primitive, uncivilized inhuman behavior.”
    Abhijit Naskar, Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy

  • #23
    Abhijit Naskar
    “It is not beauty that keeps a relationship alive, it is attachment. Without attachment, a naked body is merely a lifeless sex toy.”
    Abhijit Naskar, The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality

  • #24
    Alain de Botton
    “Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.”
    Alain de Botton

  • #25
    Alain de Botton
    “There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.”
    Alain de Botton

  • #26
    Alain de Botton
    “Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.”
    Alain de Botton

  • #27
    Alain de Botton
    “People only get really interesting when they start to rattle the bars of their cages.”
    Alain de Botton

  • #28
    Alain de Botton
    “A good half of the art of living is resilience.”
    Alain de Botton

  • #29
    Alain de Botton
    “The more familiar two people become, the more the language they speak together departs from that of the ordinary, dictionary-defined discourse. Familiarity creates a new language, an in-house language of intimacy that carries reference to the story the two lovers are weaving together and that cannot be readily understood by others.”
    Alain de Botton, On Love

  • #30
    Alain de Botton
    “Everyone returns us to a different sense of ourselves, for we become a little of who they think we are.”
    Alain de Botton, On Love



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