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QUOTATIONS – Superultramodern Science and Philosophy

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QUOTATIONS – Superultramodern Science and Philosophy


ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

“I am convinced that an electronic machine, no matter how smart and intelligent, being still a mere spatial structure in concept, can neither innovate nor even understand the axiom: ‘No spatial structure can be a representation of any feeling’. Such innovation can only be a work of a non-spatial mind, like a human being, and only such innovation, it should be acknowledged, can pave the way for further scientific achievements.”

“In attempting to speculate the outcome of the possible race for supremacy between natural and artificial intelligence it makes sense to consider that there are basically two sorts of machines - spatial machines and non-spatial machines. The universe is physically a non-spatial machine. The artificial machines, like electronic computers, manifesting artificial intelligence are conceptually spatial machines, physically existing in non-spatial form. A human brain, manifesting natural intelligence, has both conceptually spatial as well as non-spatial components. Now, to be the real master of the game of life is to be able to manipulate the physically non-spatial universe with one’s conceptually nonspatial intelligence, where the non-spatial human brain stands some chance and the spatial artificial electronic brain does not stand any.”


ASTROLOGY

“Celestial bodies are like palm lines. They have mere information about your destiny; not any cause.”

“The worst of all superstitions may be that astrology is a superstition.”

“They often say, “What’s the point in astrology if you can’t change your destiny?”. Well, it’s true that you can’t change your destiny, but still it helps knowing about gravity.”


ATHEISM

“An atheist is as religious as a theist.”

“Theists and atheists are equally religious.” (Variant)

“Atheism is not profanity, it is stupidity.”


BELIEF

“The last thing I can believe is the illusion of consciousness.”

“The development of intellect is like this: Theism – Atheism – Agnosticism – Theism.”

“The development of intellect is from theism to theism, via atheism and agnosticism.” (Variant)


CERTAINTY

“Moral certainty is intellectual immorality.”

“Certainty is the most vivid condition of ignorance and the most necessary condition for knowledge.”


CHRIST

“I am philosophical Christ; crucified on the cross of ignorance for the sake of divine vanity.”


CHRISTIANITY

“Christianity would be helpless without the idea of freewill and the idea of freewill would be helpless without incongruity.”


COMPUTER

“There is only one real computer – the universe – whose hardware is made up of non-spatial states of consciousness and software is made up of superhuman as well as non-superhuman thoughts.”

“I’m more interested in the computer on the universe than the computer on my desk.”


CONSCIOUSNESS

“It is self-evident to me that consciousness is non-spatial. It may not be self-evident to most of the people in this world. But then a proposition self-evident to most of the people may not be self-evident to mentally handicapped people and chimpanzees.”


DEATH

“Life is too meaningful to die.”

“Man is truly born the time he dies.”


DESTINY

“Man can control nothing, including himself.”


DOUBT

“The real doubt is the doubt that doubts that it doubts.”

“If knowledge is my God, doubt would be my religion.”


GOD

“God would be the strangest thing to exist.”

“God exists beyond the ultimate paradox.”

“God speaks to Man through his destiny.”

“Man is an appearance; God is a reality.”

“God’s greatest thirst and his greatest sin is his ultimate vanity.”

“I am born to answer the ultimate question, the question about the nature of the ultimate questioner’s existence.”

“The existence of God is not logically necessary, and yet, on the basis of some profound peculiar empirical order in the universe, it seems that He exists as the ultimate uncreated Being, implying a paradox, as no logically unnecessary entity can be uncreated. This paradox is the ultimate question asked by God, who is nothing but the ultimate questioner.”

“God is a philosophical black hole – the point where reason breaks down.”

“Whenever God looks devilish, I see the philosopher fail.”

“God is a philosophical terrorist – asking a seemingly unanswerable philosophical question to quench his ultimate vanity.”

“God may not be omnipotent, but he is omniactive.”

“God is the ultimate philosophical questioner, the one who asks the logically paradoxical ultimate philosophical question about the nature of his own existence.”

“If God were to exist for the entire humanity, he would be profoundly vile, as he allows the existence of unfathomable sin, stupidity, madness, and misery for no reason than his own despicable enjoyment. God exists though, not for all humanity, but for a one chosen man – a philosopher – who is bound to answer the greatest philosophical question, the question about the nature of the questioner’s existence, which progressively quenches the divine vanity.”

“God is a paradoxical animal – the animal awaiting the resolution of the paradox.”

“The definition of God is ‘uncreated material being’.”

“God created the world to be praised on the subtle nature of his existence.”

“God created Man to play the game of hide-and-seek.”

“The most conspicuous thing in the world is the existence of consciousness and the least conspicuous thing is the existence of God.”

“God wears the clothes of the ultimate paradox.”

“Resolve the paradox and God is naked.”

“God is like a woman who wants her clothes to be taken off slowly, one by one, so as to receive the best appreciation for her beauty.”

“God invented truth, and made Man discover it.”

“God invented truth; Man discovered it.” (Variant)

“God invented truth.” (Variant)

“God is like gravity; He is logically unnecessary. But unlike gravity, He is the first phenomenon, and, therefore, a paradox, since no logical unnecessity can be the first phenomenon.”

“The discovery of God begins at understanding that He ought to exist, and ends at knowing how He could exist.”

“God seems to have no other interest in life than to be praised, by a philosopher, on the seemingly paradoxical nature of His existence.”

“God is noble, but that doesn’t necessarily make Him gentle.”

“God is my best friend and my worst enemy.”

“God is least welcome in the logical design and most welcome in the empirical design.”

“God is the master; man is the slave; and the duty of this slave is to quench his master’s ontological vanity through the work of philosophy.”

“I am not mad for God, God is mad for me.”


GOOD AND EVIL

“Evil is more fundamental than good.”

“Does pain exist only for the ultimate good or does pleasure exist only for the ultimate bad? Man might never know, for if he dies, he has no means to find out, and if he lives, there is always a chance that the ultimate is yet to happen.”

“God is the only good and the only evil.”

“The only good is God and the only evil is also God.” (Variant)

“God is the only evil. His vanity made him the devil.” (Variant)

“Whatever is happening is happening for good; but that good is God’s good, not necessarily Man’s.”


HISTORY

“Most of the history is a divine work of fiction.”


HUMANITY

“Humanity is the crime; God is the criminal.”


INTELLIGENCE

“It is impossible to imagine existence void of any intelligence.”


KNOWLEDGE

“The final discovery is the discovery of knowledge.”


LANGUAGE

“The language of God is Man’s consciousness.”


LIFE

“The more I find life to be a great design, the more I suspect it to be singular in existence; the more I suspect it to be singular, the more I feel it to be specific and personal; the more I feel it to be personal, the more I think of it to be a mere question; And the more I think of it to be a question, the less I understand the questioner.”

“My existence is such that ‘I’ do not really exist. At the end of understanding so much I understand that I know nothing. I suffer for being surrounded by intense suffering and yet I’m deeply suspicious if first of all there is indeed any consciousness except me. I strive to find the artist who may have fathered this great universal art but feel myself to be too feeble to accomplish this seemingly unattainable mission. Yet I have every respect for life, and it is this sheer respect that makes me live.”

“The meaning of life is ‘the ultimate questioner’s vanity’.”

“Life is a question asked by God about the way he exists.”


MAN

“Man is programmed to find the programmer.”

“Man is a philosophical answering machine designed by the ultimate philosophical questioner to quench its – the ultimate philosophical questioner’s – ultimate vanity.”

“The will of man is the will of God.”

“The reason for human existence is the ultimate philosophical questioner’s vanity.”

“I am the only man and the ultimate philosopher.”

“I’m the only man; I’m the ultimate philosopher.” (Variant)

“I am the only man.” (Variant)

“God created only one man, and that man is me.” (Variant)

“Man is an abstraction of a chain of conceptually related non-spatial states of consciousness.”

“Man exists to answer how God exists.”

“Man is void of knowledge; God is void of doubt.”

“The development of man is the development of his power to comprehend God.”


MATHEMATICS

“Pure mathematics is a system of 100% precise and 99.99…% necessary propositions. (The term precise means that every term in a proposition is absolutely clarified, and every non-axiomatic proposition is supported on the basis of axiomatic one/s, leaving no doubt, except the 0.00…1% universal doubt, the principle that ‘anything may be possible’.)”

“Applied mathematics is a system of propositions constructed by applying some or up to all of the pure mathematical propositions to explain and/or predict unnecessary phenomena. In other words, applied mathematics is a system of 100% precise and 99.99…% unnecessary propositions.”


MATTER

“Matter is non-spatial feeling/s and Energy is the inherent capacity of the universe to make matter exist.”

“Consciousness is non-spatial matter, and all spatial matter is a mere projection of it.”


MEANING

“What can be greater to life than to discover its meaning?”

“Nothing can be greater to life than discovering its meaning.” (Variant)


MEDITATION

“Meditation should be the foremost technology of the 21st century; the technology of reprogramming the non-spatial universal computer.”


MISERY

“In the world of unfathomable misery, I'm lucky to have a chance to be a solipsist.”


MONISM

“One cannot make many.”

“One cannot create many.” (Variant)

“One cannot produce many.” (Variant)


NECESSITY

“Necessity is the ethnicity of truth.”


NECESSITIES

“The term “physical/empirical necessity”, as it is used to describe phenomena, like gravity, which are not logically/conceptually necessary, is absurd and highly misleading, for it is clear that if some phenomenon, for example gravity, is logically/conceptually unnecessary then it cannot be physically/empirically necessary. And therefore, the terms “logical”/”conceptual” are redundant when used to mention necessities.”


NSTP THEORY

“The NSTP (Non – Spatial Thinking Process) theory entails a computational description of metaphysical idealism.”


PARADOX

“The world is a contradiction; the universe a paradox.”

“I believe in the existence of a thing, called God – the ultimate questioner, which I have speculated and considered to be the first thing – i.e. uncreated – but, at the same time, I do not understand how an (unnecessary material) thing can be the first – i.e. uncreated. Hence, the paradox. In other words, to make the best sense of my life, I conjecture and believe that there is a thing so (philosophically) strange that it is both “first” and “a thing”; strange to me because I fail to understand how a thing can be the first – i.e. uncreated; since to me it is self-evidently necessary for an (unnecessary) thing to have a creator. And I conjecture the existence of such strange paradoxical thing – i.e. the ultimate questioner – for it quenches the demand for the best meaning of life/world – life/world that is philosophically challenging and extremely orderly. The (ultimate) paradox fits in the philosophically challenging part, and God – the ultimate questioner – fits in the (ultimate) designer of the extreme order part. Thus, it is simple to understand that God – the ultimate questioner – is uncreated, since He is defined as the first creator. And it may be equally simple to understand that He is unnecessary, since He, being a creator, is a (material) thing. However, this simplicity does not answer the paradox, for there is still the failure in understanding how an (unnecessary material) thing can be uncreated. That is, on the one hand, we conjecture or speculate that an uncreated thing exists and, on the other hand, we fail to understand how an uncreated thing can actually exist. The idea of God quenches the need for the (intelligent) designer of the (intelligent) design. And, the paradox, which comes as (probably) the greatest philosophical challenge, actually helps in making the best sense of the world; God posing the best possible philosophical challenge to a philosopher man, to quench His vanity."


PAST

“Past is stranger than future.”


PHILOSOPHER

“Man’s greatest battle is being a true philosopher.”

“The man that exists is essentially a philosopher.”

“Philosophy was born in heaven; philosopher in filth.”

“There is a true philosopher, and there can be many possible versions of him. The true philosopher is the one who discovers and acknowledges the existence of the ultimate paradox about God – the ultimate questioner, the paradox that God is uncreated and yet unnecessary, and attempts – and is apparently and potentially the best at attempting – to resolve the paradox, so as to uncover the way God exists, where the process of discovering, acknowledging, and attempting the uncovering supposedly quenches God’s vanity. And the possible versions of the true philosopher are true philosophers that can possibly exist with different sorts of lives, where the difference is philosophically trivial.”

“Only one thing has been created, and that thing is a philosopher.”


PHILOSOPHERS

“The failure of the past philosophers is largely the failure to see the self-evident.”


PHILOSOPHY

“The greatest art is philosophy.”

“The word philosophy, as distinguished from science, is misleading, for it implies that what philosophy contains is impossible to be a systematic body of knowledge and what science contains is certain or proved.”

“Philosophy is the only excuse God has for his cruelty and vanity.”

“My ultimate philosophy is that the world exists for the sake of its creator’s ultimate vanity to be quenched by the ultimate philosopher by means of the ultimate philosophy.”

“The final philosophy is the ontology of God.”


PHYSICS

“The physics of the 21st century shall deal essentially with non-spatial matter and non-spatial mechanics.”

“The last physics shall be the physics about God, and it would be beyond logic and human reason. It is where science and spiritualism shall meet in one.”


PRISON

“The world is a philosophical prison and Man is a philosophical prisoner.”


PURPOSE

“In the midst of excitement, grief, joy, and solitude, I remind myself every moment that the sole mission of my life is to find "the ultimate questioner" - that unimaginable who has put me in this madness to answer an unanswerable question.”


QUANTUM PHYSICS

“The Schrödinger’s cat was born dead.”


QUESTION

“The question is how the questioner exists.”


REALITY

“Reality is not an illusion; reality is real. The fact is that what science believes to be real is an illusion, and vice versa.”


REASON

“Reality is reason’s workshop.”


REDUCTIONISM

“Knowledge makes man a reductionist.”


REINCARNATION

“What ‘rebirth’ could mean is a possible existence of (non-spatial) states of consciousness, after death, representing (ideally) the same, or (roughly) similar kinds of experiences as being represented in this particular life to which death would be a particular end. It is important to learn that here the concept of soul is not involved and thus the idea of rebirth, loosing its fundamental significance, becomes, in theory, a mere virtual or pseudo phenomenon.”


SALVATION

“The philosophical climax would be at the discovery of the way God exists; the climax, which shall be my salvation; and till then it’s all philosophical damnation.”


SELFISHNESS

“Every noble action is selfish. Some selfish actions are nobler than others. But they are all selfish. And as such there can be no action purely noble anyway. Even the nobility in God's great philosophical intentions is bounded by his vanity.”


SIN

“The sinner is always punished for his sin. And the sinner is fortunate if he is punished in a reasonably short time and has enough intelligence and knowledge to understand that the punishment is not a matter of coincidence but instead a part of a great universal design.”


SLAVERY

“A fundamental condition of being is slavery. Man is the slave of God and God that of his vanity.”

“It is profoundly tragic that I am a slave, but it is profoundly joyous that I am God’s slave, not that of a devil.”


SOLIPSISM

“How miserable a solipsist is! It is rather senseless for him to even assert his belief in solipsism, for, on the one hand, if his belief is false it is like committing intellectual suicide, and, on the other hand, if his belief is true it is an act of intellectual insanity.”

“The world is occupied by only two people; me and God.”


SOUL

“If there were such a thing called soul, the consciousness of seeing blue colour, for instance, would make incomplete sense on its own, where, in fact, it does apparently make complete sense on its own. In other words, it seems that nothing other than the consciousness of seeing blue colour is required for its existence. And the same should be true about any other form of consciousness, including the consciousness of I’m seeing the blue colour.”


SPACE

“Space is a virtual reality.”

“Space is really non-spatial.”

“There may be real space where phenomena like quantum non-locality do not exist.”


SUFFERING

“Only for a true philosopher, the suffering in the world has the noblest purpose.”

“The suffering of Man is for the happiness of God.”


THEISM

“Atheism is an uncommon sense. But theism is a common as well as an uncommon sense.”


THEORIES

“The NSTP theory is semi-idealistic and the UQV theory is semi-solipsistic.”


THEORY OF EVERYTHING

“It is human to search for the theory of everything and it is superhuman to find it.”


TIME MACHINE

“If the universe is a non-spatial computer, a ‘time machine’ is a program that allows a user to have the same (ontologically non-spatial) feelings or experiences that occurred or s/he merely feels to have occurred in the past, with an in-built function to have different feelings or experiences than those of the past, and thus creating a possibility to change the past or to rewrite history in a pseudo sense.”


TRAGEDY

“The most fundamental tragedy of my life is that the ones who I see do not exist and the one who exists I do not see.”


TRUTH

“Truth may have been found but might never be known.”

“Truth is an orphan without matter and matter is impotent without truth.”


UNIVERSE

“In reality the universe has no geometry.”

“At the heart of my metaphysic there is the ultimate question and at the heart of the universe there is the ultimate questioner.”

“The universe is a gigantic non-spatial computer.”

“I believe I have understood the most basic principle of knowledge. I believe I have uncovered the true nature of material reality. I believe I have demystified the phenomena that have stunned the greatest minds in human history. And I believe I have made a fair sense of the drama called life. But still I have a terrible feeling that I have found nothing. All of my efforts, as well as of those who ever existed before me, are simply futile. What we have been trying to understand is so profound and strange that even a very first attempt to discover its secrets is ultimately meaningless. Reason itself is as pseudo and unrealistic as space. Like space, reason is a mere form or projection of its negation. Sense itself has really no sense. And, at last, if what I have just said therefore seems to be absurd then it does not have to be as all logic and logical implications are absurd.”

“The universe is a philosophical abyss.”

“The universe is an endless tunnel of paradoxes.”

“I won’t change the world; I would change the universe.”


UQV THEORY

“My own existence is not logically/conceptually necessary. The UQV theory should be quite comfortable with this fact, and it conjectures the existence of God based on my belief in my existence. So, God, even in the domain of the UQV theory, is not logically/conceptually necessary. Saying that ‘God is necessary since He is necessary in the domain of the UQV theory’ is “a bit” like saying 'gravity is necessary since it is necessary in the domain of Newton’s law of gravity'.”


VANITY

“The worst of lusts is vanity.”

“Vanity is to God, what philosophy is to man.”


WEALTH

“Amongst all riches, God chose the riches of philosophy.”


WORLD

“The best thing about the world is that it has a mysterious structure and the worst thing is that it has a grievous structure.”

“The world is truly beautiful solely in the eyes of a true philosopher.”

“The world exists to let Man philosophize.”

“I know what the world exists for, but I know not how it came into existence. I see the design, but not the designer. I understand the question, but not the questioner.”

“The world is solely occupied by a questioner and a philosopher.”

“God is a questioner; Man is a philosopher.”

“I speculate that this is the best of all possible worlds, for philosophy is the best of humanity, and this world is the best philosophically.”

“This is the best of all possible worlds for the philosopher, and, perhaps, the worst of all for the animal.”

“This is the best of all possible worlds only for the ultimate philosopher.” (Variant)

“The world is a garden of philosophy. God is its gardener; Man is the visitor. And any tree that does not bear fruits of philosophy either does not belong to that garden or is yet to be grown.”


QUOTATIONS – General


BHAGAVAD-GITA

“The message of Bhagavad-gita is inherently satanic. To begin with the simplest of criticism, Chapter 9: verse 32 of Gita considers women, alongside vaisyas [merchants] and sudras [workers], to be of lower/inferior birth. And the same verse and verse 33 altogether imply clearly that righteous brahmanas and saintly kings are considered to be of superior birth. So, by “brahmanas”, Gita means males, not females. Chapter 4: verse 13 and Chapter 18: verse 41 altogether mention that Krishna has created brahmanas, ksatriyas [warriors], vaisyas, and sudras as four divisions of human society. Chapter 18: verse 47 & verse 48 collectively make it clear that Gita asks everyone from a division to do work only assigned for their division. Therefore, women who do the works of (male) brahmanas – e.g. the work of a professional teacher – would be irreligious according to Gita. Now, in Chapter 4: verses 7 & 8, Krishna tells Arjuna that to deliver the pious and to annihilate the miscreants, and to re-establish the principles of religion, He, Himself, appears millennium after millennium. This means that all irreligious women, considered as miscreants by Gita, are threatened to death. Even Gita would think it religious to annihilate the irreligious – all of those whose beliefs and practices do not conform to the message of Gita, which would include atheists, agnostics, free thinkers, other religious people like Christians, Muslims, Jews, etc. Moreover, the message of Gita is violent. In Chapter 2: verses 31 to 38, Chapter 4: verse 42, and Chapter 11: verses 33 & 34, Arjuna is advised to fight the irreligious people with violent means. If Krishna himself is God and almighty, he must be able to induce the irreligious people to righteous thoughts and deeds with pacific means. Instead of doing so, he wishes bloodshed. In Chapter 4: verse 8, Krishna claims that to annihilate the miscreants, he, himself, appears millennium after millennium. Krishna mentions “miscreants”, not “misdeeds”. Further, in chapter 11: verses 33 & 34, Krishna says that he has prearranged the deaths of Arjuna’s irreligious enemies. If deaths can be prearranged, anything can be prearranged, and if that is the case, why Krishna doesn’t prearrange all good in the first place? Doesn’t Krishna – the governing principle of the material manifestation, as he claims himself to be in chapter 7: verse 30 – do this for his own despicable enjoyment? If he were really good and noble, he would only create numerous pleasant (mental) states of self-realisation – the thing that he hails throughout Gita, including Chapter 3: verse 17 & Chapter 4: verse 35 – and not any of suffering. Isn’t, therefore, Lord Krishna – being responsible for unfathomable violence and suffering – satanic? Lastly, Gita is full of contradictions, absurdities, and flawed philosophies – its disregard for suffering, as expressed through verses 2:11, 2:14, 2:30, 2:57, etc., its concept of ātman, Krishna being a sinner, and yet claiming to be holy & divine, and all that. And some of the verses are conspicuously and hilariously false & stupid – e.g. Chapter 3: verse 14, which states that rains are produced because yajna is performed.”

“Bhagavad-gita is Hindu terrorism.”


BRITAIN

“I feel that Britain’s contribution to the world is unmatched, and requiting it would be a Herculean task.”

“Tell me, which country has the greatest scientific and technological achievements to date? Which country was at the centre of the industrial revolution? Which country has had the largest empire in history? Which language has become the lingua franca of the world? Which country originated modern versions or codes of major sports being played today? Which country has the world’s largest banking group? Which country has the world’s largest broadcaster? Which single university has produced the largest number of Nobel Laureates? Which is the largest university press in the world? And which city has been named as the capital of the world for the 21st century? It’s all about Great Britain!”

“There lies in a jungle a sweet little boy. The boy is bitten, wounded, tortured, and tormented by vile, feral, and savage beasts. One day the boy truly realises the tragedies of his life and of the jungle, the anarchy and indignity they suffer. Through this realisation comes an intense passion and willpower which brings him into the cave of a lion. Alas, the boy finds the lion to be little old and indolent, though the boy is sure that this stately creature is the rightful master of the jungle. The boy kindles the flame of dignity, fury, and adventure, and reinvigorates the lion.... I imagine the boy is me and the lion is Great Britain.”


CAMBRIDGE

“Every street, every building, every college, and every bridge, in Cambridge, is a piece of my heart.”

“I nearly fell in love with Cambridge and England, in May–June 2001, when I got a copy of the University of Cambridge, Graduate Studies Prospectus 2001-02. Although it had no pictures, it made me feel that Cambridge was the place where I should be. A few months later, I received a copy of the prospectus for the next year, which had beautiful pictures of Cambridge colleges. The most stunning was the one with a view of the King’s College Chapel from King’s Parade, the place that eventually became, to me, the most beloved, beautiful, and inspiring.”

“A purest experience I normally have is the experience of an image of Cambridge.”


CHARITY

“There is a great joy in giving. There is a great joy in helping the needy. There is a great joy in seeing the joy in their eyes when they get your help. There are so many people in the world who are not fortunate enough to have even two meals a day. If you remember the needy when you are greedy – if you eat little less chocolates, if you eat little less ice creams, if you purchase little less expensive clothes, if you save money and donate it, it could give you far more joy than the joy that luxury may have brought you. Giving will transform the way you see life. It will make you more tolerant; it will make you more content; it will make you little less of the beast. It will help you in being more human. There is a great joy in being human.”


CHILDREN

“A child is the devil in adorable form.”


CRIME

“Giving birth to a human being is perhaps the greatest crime one commits when it is known that human life is generally more of pain than pleasure. And continuing one’s life is perhaps the most stupid thing one does to himself, when life, being more grievous than pleasant, is ultimately not a profitable business.”

“I was sexually abused at 13–14 years of age by one of my maternal aunties’ husbands. When he first abused me at his home, it was so difficult for me to comprehend that something like that can exist. When I refused it to that sex maniac, he almost kicked me. I vividly remember those gruesome incidences. And even to this date, I have not been able to manage to wash out the scars it left on my mind. It was a meeting with a pure beast; ‘evil incarnate’!”


DEVIL

“In hell, the Devil is God.”

“The angel within me thrives on the devil within me.”

“I’m not the devil’s advocate; I’m his murderer.”


EGO

“Ego is vital but not noble.”


EMOTION

“I consider three things as fundamental to my emotional makeup – England, Astrology, and Philosophy.”


EMPIRE

“Britain without an empire is like lion without a roar.”


ENGLAND

“England…the greatest and the most glorious and beautiful land on Earth.”

“I remember my time in Cambridge, England…That serene, heavenly river; those grand, gorgeous fields and trees; those golden, majestic institutions; those decent, cultured, and friendly people; that great, glorious nation; that magnificent land of God…What’s the world without England? What’s life without her sensation?”

“I wonder if the world can learn not just English but also the English gentleman.”

“I hope my love of England is pure enough to be unconditional.”

“England is my heart, my soul. If I die, I want my soul to be wandering around her streets, quietly gazing at her beauties, marvels, and majesties.”

“England is the land of God. It is England where I feel strongly that He exists.”

“On a lower spiritual plane, England is to me what Allah is to Muslims.”

“In my two years of stay in England, from Mar 2004 to Mar 2006, I had to do different sorts of menial jobs for financial reasons. I worked as a kitchen porter, industrial porter, school cleaner, sales assistant, postman, etc. Sometimes due to lack of money and sometimes due to lack of knowledge, I had to do real heavy work for long hours with empty stomach or had to eat leftovers. And sometimes, out of ambition, I also worked as a prospective entrepreneur. Ironically, I attended conferences and had business meetings at places where I had once washed pots as a kitchen porter. I imagine that I was rather divinely forced to try to experience life to the fullest for serious philosophical reflections.”

“England gives me a sense of adventure, a sense of passion, a sense of duty, a sense of diligence, a sense of sacrifice, a sense of strength, a sense of belonging, a sense of commitment, a sense of hope, a sense of patience, a sense of courage, a sense of vibrancy, a sense of honesty, a sense of magnificence, a sense of pride, a sense of faith, a sense of love, a sense of service, and a sense of peace. It is England and only England who gives me the true fear of death, the fear that the land I sense as my soul, might be taken permanently away.”


ENGLISH

“I’m sickened by people who do not seem to understand that the origin of the English language is England, not the United States; people who hate English accents or regard American English as superior to English English. Can we say German German, for example, is inferior to any other German? And if, in case, I had to entertain the possibility of truthfulness of such people’s opinion, I would say English English is far more sweet, polite, charming, conscientious, decent, and natural than any of its possible rivals.”


ENTERTAINMENT

“I suppose I’m a thorough entertainer. I remain quiet for those who are best entertained by silence.”


EVIL

“Evil can always justify itself. It is good that is often short of justification. Yet, good is good, and evil is evil.”


FAME

“Between fame and philosophy, I should choose philosophy, but I would choose fame.”


FOOD

“I wish I can enjoy no food but food for thought.”


FREEDOM

“Man is a born slave; a slave of his necessities.”


FUTURE

“Future – the mastermind – shapes the present through the hands of the past.”


GOD

“If God is in Heaven, Hell is empty.”


GREATNESS

“The stem of greatness sprouts from the seed of sacrifice.”

“The road to greatness is stained with crime.”


HAPPINESS

“Only the insane can be happy; happiness is profoundly disrespectful of the sane.”

“Long years ago I used to believe that the more knowledge I acquired, the happier I would become. On the contrary, I became more and more depressed, solitary, and unhappy.”


HISTORY

“History is an orphan. It can speak, but cannot hear. It can give, but cannot take. Its wounds and tragedies can be read and known, but cannot be avoided or cured.”

“History is like a ghost. It is as dead as alive.”


HUMANITY

“I hate this word “humanity”. It denotes a height of human self-centredness. If man were a tumour, there would be “tumourity”.”


IDEA

“If I am convinced that I will procure the profoundest idea only by undergoing the profoundest pain, I shall beg for strength to endure that pain.”


IGNORANCE

“The blind cannot see the sun.”


INDIA

“My tender poetic and philosophical mind suffocates in the horrid Indian ambience.”

“The Indian education system is not Socrates’ kindling of a flame; it’s filling of a vessel.”

“In England, they have postcards for sell at loads of bookstalls, post-offices, etc. – postcards which are sarcastic, humorous, and terribly critical of England and the United Kingdom as well as the Queen. They also sell things like footwear, undergarments with the British flag printed all-over. I can’t imagine people in India selling things critical of India. Those possibly selling such things are pretty much likely to be persecuted as well as prosecuted. This tells us the massive difference between two cultures. English culture seems modest and self-critical or even self-deprecating. Indian culture sounds dogmatic and self-congratulatory.”

“The only good freedom brought for a common Indian is that it virtually freed him from the burden of the colour of his skin being seen in his country as his disqualification.”


INTELLECT

“If you do not understand me, you are mediocre. If you do understand me, you are intelligent. And if you disprove me, you are a genius.”


KNOWLEDGE

“Most of the knowledge is supremely dull and overwhelmingly complicated. It attracts corrupt minds and men that are even short of qualification to be human.”


LANGUAGE

“The language of sword is less powerful than the language of word, but most of the people understand the language of sword with greater power than the language of word.”


LAUGHTER

“Laughter is the worst imprudence.”


LIFE

“The sound of life has divine silence.”

“Life is a poison drunk hoping for nectar.”

“A man lived a worthy life only if the job he did were theoretically impossible for a machine.”

“I revere the man who does not cease to love and respect life in the midst of sufferings and calamities.”


LOVE

“True love is like religion. It is full of devotion and free of doubt.”


LUXURY

“Luxury is not strongness; it is weakness.


MADNESS

“Madness is perhaps the worst communicable disease.”


MAN

“That is Man whose heart is spirited and eyes are wet each moment on account of the sorrow, compassion, virtue, beauty, and nobility that decorate this world.”


MEANING

“The worst insult I can inflict on life is that I do not reflect on its meaning.”


MISSION

“I have three missions in life, stated in the decreasing order of their (spiritual) importance – Discovering the profoundest truth, which, I suspect, is equivalent to finding God - the ultimate questioner; Revolutionising science; and Making England, the most glorious of nations, the most powerful. Yet, it is the last one that is the closest to the heart.”

“My first option is my mission; my second option is my death.”


MYSTERY

“Mystery is more beautiful than discovery; yet man seeks discovery, not mystery.”


NATURE

“Nature, by its very nature, is very brutal and unequal. However, Man has somehow managed to transform the nature of its brutality and inequality.”


OPTIMISM

“Thorough optimism is the foremost sign of a cultured mind.”


ORTHODOXY

“He is most orthodox who is the least of philosopher.”

“The fate of unorthodox is orthodox.”


PAIN

“Painful life is brutal and painless life is superficial.”


PATRIOTISM

"I am a patriot. I’m patriotic to England. I was neither born there nor do I live there, though I resided there for 2 yrs, which is rather a small portion of my life. But I don’t think patriotism should have anything to do really about whether you were born in that country or the amount of time you have spent there. England is my type, and India is not. And it’s not my crime that I was born in India, not England. There are so many Indians, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis, born in England, who are rather patriotic to their ethnic lands. England is my great love, and I am loyal & patriotic to my love, though I’m not a mindless patriot."


PEREMPTORINESS

“Peremptoriness is philosophers’ devil.”


PHILOSOPHER

“The best gift God has given me is my life of a philosopher, and the worst curse is that He put that philosopher in the cage of flesh and blood.”

“The best God-given gift for me is the life of a philosopher, and the worst curse is the existence of that philosopher in the cage of flesh and blood.” (Variant)

“The best thing to have is life of a philosopher, and the worst thing is that philosopher being in the cage of flesh and blood.” (Variant)

“The philosopher lives in the cage of flesh and blood.” (Variant)

“I am gifted as being a philosopher and cursed as being a man.” (Variant)

“My life is a prolonged battle between an animal and a philosopher.”


PHILOSOPHERS

“The world is divided between animals and philosophers.”


PHILOSOPHY

“The best of humanity is philosophy.”

“Philosophy is my mother tongue.”


PLEASURE

“Pain is a poison; pleasure an intoxicant.”


PRISON

“I have often had fear of going to prison, and I have been to a similar place for 3 nights. I suspect I might have to go to prison for a long time in future, but the basic problem with the suspicion is that I can’t be in on Thursdays.”


RACISM

“I’m not exactly racist; for I’m not stupid or mad enough to think that any nonwhite person is necessarily inferior to any white person. However, at the same time, I can’t deny that the world without white people would rather have been a shitty place to be. And even to this day, the nations of white people are, generally & indisputably, so much developed & prosperous as compared to the nations of non-whites.”

“I imagine that if the white people hadn’t robbed non-white people, there wouldn’t have been a concentration of wealth & energy to fuel up things like the industrial revolution. If this is awful then, well, the world itself is inherently awful. If whites had not exploited blacks, then very probably there would have been no industrial revolution, no advancement in sciences, medicine, and, in all, shitty & barbaric sort of stuff all over.”


RELIGION

“Religions, themselves, are (intellectual) blasphemies.”

“Ask a scientist a very profound question on his science, and he will be silent. Ask a religious person a very simple question on his religion, and he will be frenzied.”

“The tragedy of religion is that it is a perfect combination of profundity and bigotry, and it attracts men, usually, not on the basis of its moral and philosophical merit, if any, but on the basis of conservatism of mediocrity.”


REVOLUTION

“The time has come for the greatest revolution of all times.”


SCIENCE

“The history of science is the saga of nature defying common sense.”


SEX

“There are only two adult virgins in the entire world – God and me. The former is a virgin because he has no need, and the latter is a virgin because he has no brain.”


SLEEP

“If sleep had done its job with some extra care and sincerity, man would never die of old age.”


SOCIETY

“Man is more social within than without.”


SOLIPSISM

“The worst mockery God can make of a moralist is that He compels him to be a solipsist.”

“I have far more reasons to rather disbelieve that a man besides me suffers when he cries, yet I have far more sentiments, than those great reasons, to instead weep for his, far less likely, sufferings.”


SUFFERING

“You don’t know what I have gone through in life. The philosopher within me, may be liked and praised, but the animal, that has sustained the philosopher, has been into the most sacred parts of Hell.”

“I have shed tears to pay the price of conceiving my thoughts.”


SUICIDE

“If suicide were as simple as uttering the word, this planet would have had all creatures but humans.”


THEISTS

“The theist that thinks there can be no reason for an atheist to be moral, has no capacity to be moral.”


VIRTUE

“Virtue is my asylum.”

“My most cunning behaviour is a virtuous one.”

“Everybody ponders upon the beauty of a horse, but how many care if he is happy.”


WEAKNESS

“There is no room for the weak in this world; the weak has to be kicked out ruthlessly; and if it is not kicked out duly, then there is no room for the strong.”


WEALTH

“The riches of mind are richer than the riches of matter.”