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“New ideas, fragile as spring flowers, easily bruised by the tread of the multitude, may yet be cherished by the solitary wanderer.”
― Fred Hoyle, The Black Cloud

“Don't raise fingers, raise your conscience.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Time to End Democracy: The Meritocratic Manifesto

“When a disagreement emerges in a certain situation, you must first learn to distinguish, what's at stake. If it's just your opinion that's at stake, then it's far better to lose an argument than to lose a person, but if it's humanity that's at stake, then it's your duty to speak up, not to win some petty argument, but to make sure that inhumanity does not go unchallenged.”
― Abhijit Naskar, AÅŸkanjali: The Sufi Sermon

“One must learn to embrace the expertise of others, just like one expects one's own expertise to be embraced by others.”
― Abhijit Naskar, When Call The People: My World My Responsibility

“Your capacity to be offended, isn’t something that I or anyone else needs to respect.
Your capacity to be offended isn’t something you should respect, in fact, it’s something you should be on your guard for, perhaps more than any other property of your mind.
This feeling can mislead you.
If you care about justice (and you absolutely should) you should care about facts and the ability to discuss them openly.
Justice requires contact with reality.
It simply isn’t the case, it cannot be the case, that the most pressing claims on our sense of justice need come from those who claim to be most offended by conversation itself.
So I’m going to speak in the language of facts now, insofar as we know them, all the while knowing that these facts run very much counter to most peoples� assumptions.
(ep #207 Waking Up podcast)”
― Sam Harris

“A conspiracy theorist is a critical thinker playing out-of-bounds; although, and this is clear and obvious enough, free-thinking still does not automatically ensure accurate thinking.”
― Criss Jami

“Fall of reason is fall of civilization.”
― Abhijit Naskar, AÅŸkanjali: The Sufi Sermon

“Rigidity is bondage that keeps you from realizing your true capacity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Ain't Enough to Look Human

“If you pick up a stone on the beach and put it in your pocket, and the very next day something good happens to you, you may start having the belief that that stone is lucky for you. So, you hold on to it as a lucky charm. Now this is completely acceptable self-preservation mechanism, but when fraudsters start selling such stones to the meek and vulnerable, that is not only unacceptable, but downright criminal.”
― Abhijit Naskar, AÅŸkanjali: The Sufi Sermon

“Nature doesn't create questions without creating the answers first.”
― Abhijit Naskar, AÅŸkanjali: The Sufi Sermon

“The sign of a sage is to have more questions than answers.”
― Abhijit Naskar, AÅŸkanjali: The Sufi Sermon

“Unity in our world can never ever be imposed either intellectually, or politically or even scientifically for that matter - it can only rise from the insignia of humanity that lies dormant in the heart of every human - and once you break your shackles of all rigidity, that insignia will burn so bright that no corner of our society will remain untouched by it - it'll turn into an ever-burning torch and will light up the paths of humans all over the world, generation after generation.”
― Abhijit Naskar, AÅŸkanjali: The Sufi Sermon

“Responsibility makes you act and debate makes you blame each other.”
― Abhijit Naskar, AÅŸkanjali: The Sufi Sermon

“Sentiments can penetrate regions of the psyche which could otherwise be impenetrable even with a million facts.”
― Abhijit Naskar, AÅŸkanjali: The Sufi Sermon

“If arguments could convince humans, there would be no arguments at all.”
― Raheel Farooq, Why I Am a Muslim: And a Christian and a Jew

“Passion without reason is blind, reason without passion is dead.

Thought should not lack the heat of desire, nor desire the light of thought.”
― Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers

“When you can't convince them with intellect, persuade them with sentiment.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Ain't Good People (The Sonnet)

Ain't no good people we are,
If goodness means blindness.
Ain't no practical folks we are,
If practicality means selfishness.
Ain't no sane citizens we are,
If sanity means indifference.
Ain't no smart bunch we are,
If smartness brings arrogance.
Ain't no articulate minds we are,
If articulation means mindless accuracy.
Ain't no civilized society we are,
If civilization means hypocrisy.
We are the force capable of mastering a planet.
Let's live not as machines but conscience incarnate.”
― Abhijit Naskar, When Call The People: My World My Responsibility

“If you begin an investigation with the conclusion that what you seek to understand is ultimately unknowable, then you've lost the battle against ignorance before you've even begun.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“Philosophy pacifies regrets of the past and encourages to fight fears of the future but it usually doesn't solve problems of the present.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“We are conscientious practical human beings whose initiatives should be dictated by the demands of the circumstances and not by ideologies and schools of thought.”
― Abhijit Naskar, When Call The People: My World My Responsibility

“If we don’t use our minds, we can be certain that someone else will.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“A line of reasoning does not lead but follows us to truth.”
― Raheel Farooq, Why I Am a Muslim: And a Christian and a Jew

“To be a human it's necessary to carry out the requirements of civilization and the requirements of civilization are reason and compassion.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Servitude is Sanctitude

“The beliefs of the people should adapt to new ideas, instead of new ideas adjusting to old beliefs.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Servitude is Sanctitude

“The amount of respect any idea deserves is revealed by the verifiable facts it contains.”
― C.A.A. Savastano

“Whenever I was too straitly pressed with objections and arguments against any of my sentiments, and when doubts began to arise in my mind, to put off the uneasiness occasioned by them, my constant practice was to recollect, as far as I could, all the reasonings and interpretations of Scripture on the other side of the question; and when this failed of affording satisfaction, I had recourse to controversial writings. This drew me aside from the pure Word of God, rendered me more remiss and formal in prayer, and furnished me with defensive armour against my convictions, with fuel for my passions, and food for my pride and self-sufficiency.”
― Thomas Scott, The Force of Truth

“Reincarnation is but a supernatural invention by the savage minds of yesterday in an attempt to take comfort in an imaginary endlessness of life.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Time to End Democracy: The Meritocratic Manifesto

“Reason and peace not hatred and violence is ever the best way and ever shall be.”
― C.A.A. Savastano

“The Scientific Method, doing it right since the 1600s.”
― C.A.A. Savastano