Original Thinking Quotes

“We cannot solve the problems that our ancestors couldn't by thinking and acting like them - and more importantly, we cannot solve the problems that our ancestors created by thinking and acting like them - we must think original and act out of that originality.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neden Türk: The Gospel of Secularism

“Cut off all allegiance to the dead and dark, as new humans build your own moral arc.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Giants in Jeans: 100 Sonnets of United Earth

“Sonnet 1480

If you can't say anything but
my religion says this,
my religion says that,
I got no interest in hearing you.

If you can't say anything but
science says this,
science says that,
I got no interest in hearing you.

If you can't say anything but
philosophy says this,
philosophy says that,
I got no interest in hearing you.

If you can't say anything but
psychology says this,
psychology says that,
I got no interest in hearing you.

If you can't utter a single word
without parroting second-hand thought,
my phone deserves more attention than you.
But grow up and muster one original idea,
I'll put aside my writing to listen to you.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“People like illogical quotes rather than original thinking.”
― Sanjay Grover, A Multilingual FreeBook

“Today you pay for services of AI, tomorrow you'll pay for AI-free service.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“Monkey see, monkey imitate -
Human challenge is to find yourself.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“I have an uncompromising principle against the use of AI in literature.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“Refurbished laptops are useless no more, refurbished awareness is awareness no more.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Divine Refugee

“Second hand mind is antithesis of mind.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Divine Refugee

“Don't Hide Your Past (The Sonnet)

The first few minutes of my first
stage talk were absolute disaster.
First few books were mere intellectual
commentary, lacking in original Naskar.

Don't beat yourself up for the
follies of your early years.
Doesn't matter, you made mistakes,
what counts is, you outgrew your errors.

If a life claims a flawless history,
rest assured, it's a concoction of lies.
Flawlessness is mark of lifelessness,
to be alive means to be battered by cries.

Mistakes are the cornerstones of clarity,
they wire your unique perception in place.
Absence of error is the end of living sanity,
to fabricate your past is to obliterate yourself.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Humanitarian Dictator

“Clockwork mice and clockwork minds both can run great distances with no sense of why?”
― Abhijit Naskar, Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim

“Chatgpt is just a glorified xerox machine.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience

“While I was starting out I had no idea on how the world of writing and publishing worked. I had no mentor, no guide, no support of any kind whatsoever. I had to learn everything on my own, through trial and error. And the most important point here to note is that, at that point I was completely unaware of my own gift - I had no inkling. Naturally, in those early days I often borrowed ideas from other scientists and philosophers.

However, quite unexpectedly, once my true voice and tone started to awaken, I slowly started cutting ties with all external authority, except, of course, for occasional requirements of specific empirical data. Heck, this self-made and self-sustained legend was so damn proud of his inexhaustible vastness, that he wouldn't even quote his own old works in new ones, let alone others! Every new work must be unapologetically new - or I'd rather not publish at all. That's what conscience does to you - it takes away the slightest inclination of compromise, and turns you into an incorruptible beacon of pure conviction.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“Gateway to Enlightenment (Sonnet 2025)

My mainstream work don't depend on the
internet, I need the net mainly for music.
Music is companion to my writing,
while I write independent of the internet.

I once spent weeks without internet and
electricity, but that didn't stop my writing.
Sure, internet is crucial to release my work,
but I could just leave behind mountains of
unpublished work in future generations' keeping.

Even my spanish and turkish writings
won't cease in the absence of the internet.
I could easily just leave behind piles of
unpublished work in broken turkish and spanish.

I don't do drugs, drink or binge, but I do need
music, which is why I pay for youtube premium.
Apes may be impotent without ideas from internet,
I am my own gateway to endless enlightenment.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience

“Early Naskar, 2015-17, was mostly borrowed research with occasional original Naskar, mid Naskar, 2017-21, was mostly original Naskar with occasional borrowed data, late phase Naskar, 2021 onward, is pure Naskar, beyond the scale and scope of institutions.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace