Blind Faith Quotes

“Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without reason, by a miracle, and from then on to swim in it as in the brightest and least ambiguous of elements: even a glance towards land, even the thought that one perhaps exists for something else as well as swimming, even the slightest impulse of our amphibious nature — is sin! And notice that all this means that the foundation of belief and all reflection on its origin is likewise excluded as sinful. What is wanted are blindness and intoxication and an eternal song over the waves in which reason has drowned.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality

“Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They'll believe anything they see in print.”
― E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web

“The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack

“We are not sheep or cows. God didn’t create fences for us or boundaries to contain our nationalities. Man did. God didn’t draw up religious barriers to separate us from each other. Man did. And on top of that, no father would like to see his children fighting or killing each other. The Creator favors the man who spreads loves over the man who spreads hate. A religious title does not make anyone more superior over another. If a kind man stands by his conscience and exhibits truth in his words and actions, he will stand by God regardless of his faith. If mankind wants to evolve, we must learn from our past mistakes. If not, our technology will evolve without us.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Do you know, the only people I can have a conversation with are the Jews? At least when they quote scripture at you they are not merely repeating something some priest has babbled in their ear. They have the great merit of disagreeing with nearly everything I say. In fact, they disagree with almost everything they say themselves. And most importantly, they don't think that shouting strengthens their argument.”
― Iain Pears, The Dream of Scipio

“If all men are made in God's reflection, then why do some people continue to acknowledge only what is in their part of the mirror? If every man was created equal and in the image of God, then how can any man claim that one race is better than another?”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“If we seek solace in the prisons of the distant past
Security in human systems we're told will always always last
Emotions are the sail and blind faith is the mast
Without the breath of real freedom we're getting nowhere fast."

(History Will Teach Us Nothing)”
― Sting, Nothing Like the Sun

“God seemed to have become a brand, a packaging, and people purchase this trusted brand with such faith and devotion that they no longer care who the vendor is.”
― Justin Villanueva, Conversations with the Light Bearer

“It is debatable whether blind faith is truly faith at all. Faith is the perceptive gray area where scientific facts meet an individual's experiential truths - the extreme of the former is left feeling in the dark whereas the latter is caught blinded by the light. By proper scientific method, it is intellectually dishonest for me to declare the existence of God with utmost certainty, but to my individual spirit, I would be intellectually dishonest to deny the existence of God even for a second. This leaves the best of both worlds, as the believer is called to be able to give reasons for his faith, a deviation from mere fantasy.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“[He] seemed to possess, beneath it all, an immutable sense of self-assurance, but in addition to that, the look of a man ensnared by what he perceived to be his own Duty. A Duty that effervesced inside of him impatiently, dry at the mouth, shaking feverishly, and holding its breath in anticipation for—not his action, but in fact—the fruits of his actions, however distant these may have been. The goal was to satiate its thirst in as few moves as possible, instilling each action with an almost implied necessity for having a motive by which it must exist, which is to say that no action was to be wasted for anything, but only for that which was rooted in some definable and clear-cut purpose...Every action had to be a step in some direction and there could be no dillydallying, for Duty bubbling in the bloodstream for too long brought with it a kind of sickness...from which it was difficult to recover. Neither could there be any reconsideration, for the values to which one has sworn were unassailable and beyond the powers of one individual to reassess. And so, Duty, once instilled, must be allowed to carry on unabated, diverting sustenance away from other aspects of one’s character—driving them to a weakened state, brow-beaten by circumstances beyond their immediate control and relegated to their own downtrodden acquiescence to the bravado of the Parasitic Superego, and, as such, cognizant of their growing superfluity.”
― Ashim Shanker, Don't Forget to Breathe

“The...act of surrender—or devotion, as the case may be—was, to him, a kind of lifeline for those who sought a quick answer and didn’t want to stick around long enough to see their doubt through to its ultimate conclusion. A conclusion, which, of itself, was a bittersweet paradox—for how could doubt simply cease to exist by any stretch of the imagination? Doubt was, nonetheless—from his own perspective—the only inclusive insight into the nature of a Truth exclusive of conditions.”
― Ashim Shanker, Don't Forget to Breathe

“I place neither faith nor facts above the human, both must elevate human condition, or else both are equally redundant. History is full of people who were correct and cruel, history is full of people who were religious and animal.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“Women are indigenous to their bodies,
Palestinians are native to their home.
Privilege cannot buy righteousness,
nor can blind faith redraw chromosome.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Sonnet 2713

Every monkey thinks toxic masculinity is nobility,
every monkey thinks blind faith is divinity,
every ape thinks tribalism is divine fury,
and brainless loyalty is patriotic duty.

Every ape confuses superstition with spirituality,
every ape confuses conspiracy with curiosity,
every ape confuses fear with reverence,
every ape confuses exclusivity with supremacy.

Every ape thinks their flag is the flag of god,
every ape thinks their land is the land of god,
every ape thinks their lingo is the lingo of god,
every ape thinks their text is the text of god.

Takes a human to feel empty without others,
takes a human to feel incomplete when alone.
Absolute self-sufficiency is a mental illness,
you gotta be extremely selfish to be happy on your own.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“There is nothing above me, nothing is underneath. The day I left the ape behind, the jungle lost a sheep.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“When The Dervish Burns
(Naskaristana 2791-2794)

You cannot have a brain,
and complacent too.
You cannot have backbone,
and conformist too.

You cannot have heart,
and host prejudice too.
You cannot be human,
and popular too.

You cannot have a self,
and not burn it.
You cannot have a life,
and not sacrifice it.

You cannot have eyes,
and not see through lies.
You cannot have ears,
and not hear the tears.

You cannot have arms,
and not stretch in aid.
You cannot have feet,
and not burn the chains.

You cannot have veins,
and not boil at cruelty.
You cannot have nerves,
and not ignite at injustice.

You cannot have government,
and homelessness too.
You cannot have innovation,
and fail accessibility too.

You cannot aim for the stars,
while failing life on earth.
You have zero right to luxury,
while children suffer and starve.

You cannot have godmen,
and claim to know the truth.
You cannot be fundamentalist,
and have faith too.

You cannot have faith,
and fail tolerance.
You cannot have science,
and fail at service.

You cannot have culture,
and fail integration.
You cannot have internet,
and fail common sense.

You cannot have a society,
and fail empathy.
You cannot have language,
and fail understanding.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“Flags that sell hate deserve to be burnt, yet don't burn them, just leave them behind. Badges that strike fear among the innocents deserve to be slaughtered, yet don't slaughter, just cripple them with vigil disobedience.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Don't ask life directions from the dead.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“There is no law, only I am -
no grand design, no master clan -
no sacred script, no chosen land,
only beating hearts and helping hands.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Insaan se ucha na vatan, na khoon, na koi sanskaar, na koi kaanoon.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Na koi kaafir, na koi sant;
Na andh-vishwas in dharmgranth.
Love is my duty, brain is my flame;
I'm signpost on the cosmic lane.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Karm se hum baney Vishwaroop,
Reeti rivaaz sab andhaa jhooth.
Naam se Maanav, karm se Marham;
Dil na dekhe foreign-sanatan.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“Truth is a garden, not a factory, which means dead leaves must fall, new branches must be tendered to.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Bring your brain, heart and backbone, but leave everything else at the door, your dictionary, your scripture, your constitution, your philosophy, or do not enter, there'll be no point.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Holy people prioritize kindness, stupid people chase after magic.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“A human being in their complete wholeness is universally illegal in every nation state, because the jungle thrives on fragmentation, and any specimen that refuses to honor and obey fragmentation, is by default a national threat.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“If you want to find out if someone is truly holy, don't ask them whether they believe in god, ask them instead, what they think of other religions, and if their response is that of appreciation, then you know that their heart is truly sacred, but if they rush to blabber about their own religion, then they're no more holy than I am white.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Awake, arise, break the trance of tribe,
and the planet of apes becomes human.
Hoist your heart as a beacon of love -
confront the fear, and war loses oxygen.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Vegetables with roots are still vegetables,
animals with tradition are still animals.
Apes flying spaceships are still apes,
parasites in office are still parasites.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“If you want to find out if someone is truly holy, don't ask them whether they believe in god, ask them instead, what they think of other religions.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock