Cognitive Blindness Quotes

“Pride is poison.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Time to Save Medicine

“Too must sentiment and no reason, destroys both the path and the pedestrian.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Giants in Jeans: 100 Sonnets of United Earth

“Replacing one tyrannical paradigm with another is not progress, it's only recurring regress.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Revolution Indomable

“Neuroscience of Ideology (The Sonnet)

No matter the intention of origin,
No ideology can stand uncorrupt through time.
Even the perfect of theories fall apart, because,
The brain can't pledge obedience without being blind.
To maintain the grandeur of an ideology,
The mind chooses to switch off certain faculties.
Thus the mind starts digging its own grave,
As well as for the world, without even knowing it.
Ideology relevant today won't be relevant tomorrow,
But the ideology itself isn't aware of this.
Thus in the guise of savior it keeps raising sheep,
Who then turn defensive and ruin all possibility of peace.
Borders don't preserve peace, borders only breed war.
All peace is fiction till we treat every border
as Donald Trump's wall.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans

“Biases are inevitable, prejudice is optional.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Humanitarian Dictator

“Just as there is such a thing as blinded by light, there is such a thing as blinded by reason. Just as there is such a thing as poisoned by oxygen, there is such a thing as poisoned by belief.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim

“You cannot develop consciousness without correcting your biases.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology