Abhijit Naskar

“Faith in God is optional, but faith in the self – in the spirit within, is imperative.”

“Wisdom or enlightenment is not white, black or brown – it’s not christian, muslim, jew, hindu or atheist – it’s not homosexual or heterosexual – it’s not reductionist, empirical or sentimental – it’s not belief or disbelief. True enlightenment or wisdom or understanding or insight, whatever we call...”

“Without attachment, a naked body is merely a lifeless sex-toy.”

“For self-educated scientists and thinkers such as Charles Darwin, Srinivasa Ramanujan, Leonardo-da-Vinci, Michael Faraday, myself and many others, education is a relentless voyage of discovery. To us education is an everlasting quest for knowledge and wisdom.”

“Be one and be civilized. By civilized I don't mean that phony kind of civilized pretense where you pretend to be egalitarian, yet the moment your kid brings home a partner of color, or of a different religion, you instantaneously burst out in shock and try either to break them apart by all cheap mea...”

“I prefer to be seen as a know-nothing idiot, than a know-it-all bigot.”

“Artificial Intelligence can be a supplement to human insight, not substitute.”

“It takes courage to accept one's ignorance.”

“Security breeds insecurity, independence breeds discovery.”

“Life without liberty, is a life not lived, and life without truth, is a life not understood.”

“The search of truth and understanding is an infinite adventure.”

“Enough is enough - wake up and live already.”

“The ultimate goal of humanity is knowledge.”

“Start small and keep going.”

“People don't care for facts, unless they can feel those facts in their bones.”

“Artificial intelligence will not destroy this planet, irresponsible human intelligence will.”

“Knowledge begins with the acceptance of ignorance.”

“The most important questions of life do not have any factual answers.”

“I don't know a lot of things, but the one thing I do know is that I don't know a lot of things.”

“Your life is your decision – your life is your design – your life is your creation.”

“Helping a human is equivalent of a hundred pilgrimages.”

“mystics” and so on, end up bound in yet another form of orthodoxy or extremism, replete with the primal psychological germs of supernaturalism.”

“I am a scientist, but it’s not the popularization of science, that I have in mind, rather, my main concern is the well-being of the human society.”

“A belief is your brain’s self-maintenance mechanism.”

“Liberty is too precious a thing to be buried in books. Humans should hold it up in their hands every single day of their lives and say from the deepest fathoms of their soul – “I am free – to think – to speak – to act – the way a real, novel, civilized being should – my ancestors couldn’t, but I can...”

“Repudiation reinforces beliefs.”

“Time is a curious dimension - habit of the preconceived notion can easily reverse the hand of a clock, and yet the clock is still in perfect working order.”

“Cynicism breeds hate, whereas inquiry breeds understanding.”

“Wise is the one who knows to bow before the right person in search of knowledge.”

“Action is life, inaction is death.”

“The sun gives warmth and light to the world and expects nothing in return, not because it is good or bad, but because it is the sun's nature.”

“I am not here to peddle you anything – I am not here to convert you either – I am here on earth to be an example of liberation – and if that example appeals to your civilized and conscientious psyche, then embrace it without judging other people’s methods or the paths they walk on.”

“In a free society, people may be entitled to their belief, but they are not entitled to bigotry. To the bigots, this may seem like tyranny, but it's an absolute necessity, just like it is absolutely imperative that psychopathic murderers are kept off the streets.”

“Technology won't save this world - reason won't save this world - faith won't save this world – only responsibility will.”

“عندما يتبنى عدد كاف من الناس نفس الاعتقاد، يتحول هذا الاعتقاد تلقائيًا إلى حقيقة لا يمكن دحضها في نظر الكثير من الناس، حتى لو كان هذا الاعتقاد لا يمت للحقيقة بصلة”

“Be strong – be God – and keep moving, never to back down, no matter the circumstances.”

“Be the solution, not the pollution.”

“To hell with personal consequences - step up and act.”

“There is no destination in marriage. It is the journey that matters.”

“Humans are the only helpline that humanity has got.”

“Being famous is not the same as being right.”

“Without failure there’s no learning, without failure there’s no discovery, without failure there’s no progress.”

“We live in graves and call them home, and we further sustain the neurotic structure of those graves with elements of so-called sociological, cultural, traditional, religious, political and intellectual significance.”

“Progress requires sacrifice of security. And the only reason, humanity keeps on progressing, despite the fact that most of the human population do not sacrifice their security, is that, on behalf of the whole humanity, a handful of bravehearts do all the sacrificing and pain- bearing, yet people can...”

“Take the steps beyond personal gain and personal pain, to bring victory upon humanity. Be the cause of humanity’s joy – be the cause of humanity’s cheer – be the cause of humanity’s harmony – and above all be the cause of humanity’s unification – even if it means walking on a road full of thorns eve...”

“Whenever there is an uprising of misery, discrimination and sectarianism, I shall rise over and over again, to take humanity with me in the path of sweet, progressive harmony.”

“All achievements – all feats of excellence, rise from the protoplasmic realm of the brain.”

“Whatever you do, do as an original human – as a master, not as a slave.”

“The most sensitive period of their developmental age, when the kids are supposed to be taught to question everything and nourish their reasoning skills, they are taught that God created the world in seven days – that the human race did not evolve from apes through millions of years, rather it came f...”

“Do something so radical that you become the very first of your kind in that deed, and you shall never be forgotten so long as human life exists.”

“You are your mind, so if you can see it, you can achieve it.”

“The society is neurotic – it is a fact – no conscientious creature can deny it. But my question to you is – what are you doing to obliterate this neuroticism for good?”

“If only we the genuine humans had the real guts, and sense of real responsibility to act as the holy warriors on our own original beliefs and principles, then we wouldn’t see any trace of terrorism in the world whatsoever, religious or otherwise.”

“We have evolved psychologically indeed and through this evolution we have gained extraordinary psychological capacities, that basically are not possessed by any other species on earth, yet those capacities are not utilized at their fullest and most productive potential. It’s like having money and ye...”

“The more I write, the more I find it hard to describe my work with any contemporary label.”

“When I started training myself in Neurobiology, Psychology and Theology, mostly on the streets of Calcutta, at the book kiosks on the sidewalk, for I had no money to buy the books, I had no academic background - no college degree - no potential for earning a decent living - I was a direction-less ca...”

“Err my friend, but be not defeated and keep on moving.”

“Better dope than dilettante.”

“Experience does not give you wisdom. Wisdom comes through liberation of the mind. And since most humans live a conditioned life, they never get liberated in the first place, hence they never even have the taste of wisdom.”

“It's more important to know what we don't know, than to know what we know.”

“You can hardly realize the essence of my ideas, if you try to comprehend them in terms of what your society has taught you. To understand me, you must first be free, and start off in an investigative journey with me, like a naïve newborn with no preconceived idea about anything whatsoever.”

“Spirituality lies in acts of compassion and conscience, not in supernatural nonsense. One may babble ceaselessly about positive frequencies, healing vibrations, nourishing stones and crystals, but all these are not indicative of a spiritual existence, if anything, they are only signs of stupidity an...”

“Realize, rise and act – make mistakes, fall hard, then rise again and try again.”

“I agree that I know nothing. And you know nothing. So, I say, let's figure out together - two equally conditioned pedestrians of freedom with equal potential for truth.”

“La educación les permite a los humanos alcanzar su potencial mental y físico tanto en la vida persona como en la vida social.”

“Nothing – I repeat – nothing can become so big an obstruction in your path that you cannot overcome it, for your brain is the most divine and most godly Turing Machine of all times, capable of deeds that humanity is yet to encounter.”

“To visualize the future – the vast ocean of possibilities, you must first learn to distinguish between knowledge and illusion of knowledge.”

“A scientist is not to teach humans, but to serve humans A philosopher is not to teach humans, but to serve humans. A preacher is not to preach humans, but to serve humans. Any individual who possesses higher intellect than the general population, is meant to be at the forefront of service to humanit...”

“I am pain stricken to say that, various “educational”

“There is only one ideal in the world, which is, the light of knowledge – the light of truth.”

“Wisdom is not an exclusive possession of the intellectual parts of the society.”

“If the work we do is not personal to us, then it's not genuine work.”