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

“An empty attic is a primate's olympus.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience

“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

“Anatomy of Conspiracy
(Sonnet 2094-2095)

The biggest conspiracy
in the world is to make people
think that there is a conspiracy,

because when people believe
in conspiracy, they get paranoid,
and a paranoid population is the ideal
consumer for various soothsaying items,

from guns, bombs and nuclear weapons,
to crystals, chemtrails, chakras,
magnets, gemstones, ouija, racial purity,
and plots of land in the afterlife.

Now, some of these items and ideas may be
harmless, others downright villainous,
but they are all part and parcel of
an insecure primate's pursuit for control -
delusional though such control may be.

Conspiracy, superstition, conventional
or newage, it's all about control,
either self-inflicted or institutionalized -
you are searching for order where there
is none, so your brain cooks up one,

just to keep you satisfied - and you
start seeing faces in the clouds,
or patterns in your star charts.

Keep your mind open, just not so open
that your brain starts leaking -
an empty attic is a primate's olympus.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience

“Be a think tank of life, not a septic tank of prejudice.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology

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

“Bigotry is the ruin of a brain, superstition is a waste of imagination.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology

“Insan, Insan, o my yaar (friend), grow some brain to tell superstition from sanskaar*. update you must, both phone and fervor, brainless *tradition maintains jungle sarkaar (rule).”
― Abhijit Naskar, The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology

“If left to tradition, every mind
is a septic tank of superstition.
But nourish it with heart and reason,
and mind is sanctuary of illumination.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience

“Don't visit any institution where you have to leave your brain at the door.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“Any substantially advanced truth is indistinguishable from delusion.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“Cup is just crockery, till there is coffee. Head is just a skull, till there is mind.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“Planet earth is a planet of vegetables,
don't let looks and suits fool you.
Only sentient beings are heathen rebels,
alive enough to question vegetable truth.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“Mind built on tradition is too small for truth, world built on doctrine is too dead to do good.”
― 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