Rational Thinking Quotes

“The vagaries of love with all its unpredictable and capricious meanders may be a hurdle in keeping life on an even keel. Rational thinking and irrational feeling don’t always get along very well. ( "Love as dizzy as a cathedral”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Hand of human is the hand of god.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yarasistan: My Wounds, My Crown

“Americans worship Batman and Spiderman, Indians worship Monkeyman and Lionman, Egyptians honor Falconman and Catwoman. Fantasies are apekind's escape from the mundane, problem is when fantasy turns humans into vegetable.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“Biology 101: there is no angel, only good human - there is no paradise, only good people.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“You are not going to heaven if you do good, you are not going to hell if you do evil, you'll simply dissipate into nature like any other animal, but your goodness will live on through others for a while yet.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“World has no shortage of tradition, yet civilization is scarce.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“The confidence of ignorance is always louder than the confidence of knowledge.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“Truth raises more questions than answers, whereas lies are snugly, sure and doubtless.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“Life is Nonbiblical, Truth is Nonbinary
(Sonnet 2349-2350)

Atheism is a white european invention,
outside the shortsighted gutter
of eurocentrism there are people who don't
need to believe in a creator to be holy,

you can be sacred without being superstitious,
the human world is teeming with such cultures
where life is holy, duty is holy, laughter is holy,
but of course your whitewashed, eurocentric
little intellect cannot fathom nonduality -

that's why you mustn't confuse intellect with wisdom,
some of the brilliant minds are first class idiots,
their binary brains have zero capacity for nuance,
they confuse the backwater fiction-centric narrative
of the church to be the entire lifespring of theology,

so naturally, either they believe like sheep
or reject like robot, because in a world of sheep
and cyborgs either there is god or there is not,
either you submit to blind faith or icecold logic,
there is no place for heart, humanity and tolerance!

Not Christ, but church doctrine was
a major downgrade in theology existing
hundreds and thousands of years prior,
at the same time, european reductionism
was a major downgrade in a wholesome
life-centric understanding of truth.

We need a life-centric understanding of truth,
not truth-centric understanding of life -
we need a human-centric realization of divine,
not divine-centric realization of human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“Not Christ, but church doctrine was a major downgrade in theology existing hundreds and thousands of years prior, at the same time, european reductionism was a major downgrade in a wholesome life-centric understanding of truth.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“Was it malice or stupidity?
Doha had found that the motivation for most confusing attributes of other people could be classified into one of those two categories.
Someone cutting in a line? Either they were too oblivious to notice the queue (stupidity—unaware of one’s surroundings) or simply didn’t care that they were inconveniencing others (malice—a prioritization of the self above others).
So, in the case of Renee refusing to call him by his preferred name, Doha had quickly inferred that she was either consistently forgetful, even after multiple reminders (stupid to a pitiful degree) or determined to call him what she wanted to, regardless of his preference (malicious, but in a rude, undercutting sort of way).”
― Molly Collier, The Paragon

“If all it takes is a couple of burning bushes, magic tricks and fairytales to quench your quest for truth, you have neither the brain, nor the backbone, or the heart to explore truth.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“Naskar's Razor: When more than one course of action are possible, most humane course is the correct course of action, even if it's not the most efficient, logical or traditional.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“When a 3 pound brain drops on a bigot in its complete vastness, bigotry don't just blush, it's blasted to ashes.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“Life is but a series of disillusionments.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“Life is but a string of disillusionments.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“Instead of wasting time and resources on trying to prove mythologies as historical fact, cultivate some civilized sense befitting your looks, and apply your concerns to solve real-life issues.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“There are two kinds of truth in the world, empirical truth and human truth - empirical truth is all about facts, human truth is more than facts - human truth applies facts wisely among other instruments to uplift human condition.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“Logic doesn't become science until you breathe empathy into it.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“Truth is relevant only in its subservience to life, otherwise, truth is just another blind faith.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“Curse of Spirituality (Sonnet 2537)

Why is it that 90% of modern spiritual
population are just newage nutters,
what's the point in surpassing religious
fundamentalism, if you end up being
sucked into superstitions with glitter!

Why can't you be spiritual
without being superstitious,
why can't you be religious
without being a fundamentalist -

the day you could, that's the beginning
of civilized spirituality and human religion.

I'm not asking for cold, cantankerous logic
all the time, all I'm saying is, why does
spirituality have to depend on superstition -

if your spirituality crumbles without superstition,
you were never spiritual, just underdeveloped.

There is no spirituality except kindness,
there is no religion but service.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“If your spirituality crumbles without superstition, you were never spiritual, just underdeveloped.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“Why is it that 90% of modern spiritual population are just newage nutters, what's the point in surpassing religious fundamentalism, if you end up being sucked into superstitions with glitter!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“No matter the nature of an experience, there's always an explanation. You may not get it, due to lack of data, time or tenacity, but there is always an explanation.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Humanitarian Dictator

“I was born without lineage,
without a holy claim -
no prophet in my pocket,
no empire to my name.

But I rose from the ruins
of the borders they drew,
and I learned from the ashes
what a human can do.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“No telepathy, no clairvoyance, human presence is the miracle.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“Look up from your gypsy tea cups, outside your make believe starcharts, shake off the spell of hollow algorithms, reality speaks through human tears.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“Love that comes with a cage, and logic that comes with a freezer, are both equally unfit for life.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“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

“Via negativa: We cannot say what God is; we can only say what God is not. Applied to the present day. We cannot say what brings us success. We can pin down only what blocks or obliterated success.”
― Rolf Dobelli, The Art of Thinking Clearly