Joshian Quotations 2
The Indian way is to think of Man to be a divine being, and as Man is obviously not a divine being, to take it as an utter contrast and rather treat him as a useless insect.
The principle of conservation of energy suggests that x's freedom is y's slavery.
Man is more social within than without.
Attitude is not everything. But without it everything is nothing.
Nothing is absolutely ignorant or absolutely wise.
Life is a waste of time.
Fear is the worst form of violence.
Anger is the most childish expression.
The existence of the universe is without any reason.
The root of everything is plurality.
Every creation is necessarily flawed.
Life could be practically worth but is philosophically pointless.
It's my conjecture that the world is made up of three elements stated in the descending order of certainty and ascending order of necessity : Consciousness, Truth, and Irrationality.
Strong plays; Weak fights.
Fighting is a virtue of weak and a vice of strong.
It is not just human but rather a divine rule that being political is the best policy.
The greatest art is that the world is fundamentally an art with no artist.
The essence of the greatest form of life is not love, grief, solitude, or adventure. Its essence is that it's an unending puzzle.
The concept of God is a byproduct of Man's deepest fear and ignorance with the universe.
A true Englishman can do anything but philosophy.
French are arguably the most abstract species on earth.
The universe is fundamentally of three kinds : interpretable, interpreter, uninterpretable. The first kind is static, the second one is dynamic, and the third one is profoundest as well as absurd.
A worse news for a philosopher could be that the universe is fundamentally absurd. And the worst news is that the worse news is probably true.
In Europe it seems to be an etiquette to be white.
It's an intriguing mistake to think that the oldest civilisation has the greatest wisdom.
Tolerance is basically a tricky way of minimising once own sufferings.
The world exists to let Man philosophise.
The virtue of an American is the minimisation of the exploitation of his brain and his vice is the maximisation of those of others.
The story of the world is necessarily and exclusively a story of exploitation and its future would be no different.
Doubt is an eternal nightmare of wisdom.
Nature, by its very nature, is brutal and partial. However, Man has somehow managed to transform the nature of its brutality and partiality.
Man is a philosophical animal.
At the heart of history there is a revolution.
The only way to be rich is to assume yourself to be poor.
The tragedy of the world lies in the fact that white is smart but bad and black is good but mad.
Whenever I see suffering in the world I tend to be a solipsist.
Truth is an appearance.
Even the greatest, deepest, and purest form of love is essentially an expression of exploitation.
Everything in the world is capable of arousing all sorts of emotions.
The most rational thing about the universe is that it is fundamentally irrational.
At its heart the universe has no reason.
The universe is a gigantic non-spatial computer.
The inducer of the greatest romantic feeling is the deepest philosophical question.
Even God is deceived by the unthinkable.
There are three paths to heavens: music, love, and philosophy. Music is the shortest but the least pleasant one. Love is the moderate one. And philosophy is the longest but the most pleasant one.
All the world is a game of mind, the mind which ultimately goes wrong.
God is the pseudo-governor of morality.
The answer to the greatest question is that it is unanswerable.
Man is a racist animal.
Good man feels that the world is alive because of goodness, but wise man knows that the world is essentially a business.
Mankind is a love-hate relationship.
Imperfection is a form of perfection and vice versa.
Nothing is ever original. All originality is relative.
For a humanist history is a tragedy; For a solipsist it is an entertainment.
History is a tragedy for a humanist, and an entertainment for a solipsist.
Nothing is responsible for anything.
The world is a notorious game of intelligent hide-and-seek.
Truth is the most mischievous thing in the world.
A true genius is the one who could be justified of writing an autobiography by the age 25.
A white man and a black man are really more different than how they appear to be.
Intelligence is a necessary condition for existence. In other words, to be is to be intelligent.
A racist is a statistician, not a logician.
Professionalism is an insistence on mechanisation of mankind.
One of the most desirable things to me is a truth in solipsism. That would make me not worried with the apparent suffering in the world and not envied with the pleasure.
A great mistake God made is that he introduced madness in the world.
It might sound ridiculous but ultraviolet rays are responsible for virtually all of the misery, suffering, and hatred in the world.
Be not a dictator; you will be caught and punished. Be not a peacemaker; you will be misunderstood and assassinated. Be like a fox; and you will be praised and feared.
England is a fine country except the insularity, racism, and prejudice it incorporates.
England, an incorporator of insularity, racism, and prejudice, is a fine country except its incorporation.
Language is a necessary medium for imperfect intelligence.
The world ruined itself with its existence.
The only thing preoccupying me in my solitude is solitude itself.
I think the reason why too many great men were homosexual is that they were wise enough to know how dull and uninteresting a woman is.
If you look from a westerner's perspective it won't take you long to find that every Chinese is Gautama Buddha and every Indian is Mahatma Gandhi.
Racism does not make sense because even if race x is superior to race y it is not necessary that every person from race x is superior to every person from race y. For example, if for one moment it's assumed that Aryans are superior to Jews, very few Aryans, if at all, are superior to Albert Einstein.
Racism is a tragic mistake of thought that every person from race x is necessarily superior to every person from race y.
The world is unfair. It demands ruthlessness for emotions.
To speak wise is to speak like a mathematician.
Morality is a most nonsensical and yet a most respected state of mind.
The difference between east and west is the difference in the attitude of their women about their breasts. A woman from the east thinks that breasts are something women should be ashamed of; a woman from the west thinks that breasts are something women should be proud of.
All confidences are overconfidences.
Confidence is always necessarily overconfidence.
Behind the shadows of peace there is a story of bloodshed.
My experience suggests me that easier a language more complex is its native speaker.
Despite the great sense it makes it is logically impossible to verify or falsify solipsism.
Thorough optimism is the foremost sign of a cultured mind.
Man is a cultured animal which takes pride in making fun out of other cultures.
What makes one man is a vision and courage to change the world.
There are many wonderful things in the world : food, love, philosophy which have one thing in common: they make you forget anything else; except one thing: music which has the power to ignite all sorts of emotions one by one.
Morality makes strong weak and vice versa.
It makes no sense to say 'I'm a solipsist', because if your belief is true there is no one to understand it and if you are wrong then you are just exposing your logical shortcomings.
All the present is either history or future.
Every great creator has a great destroyer within.
There is a hope in living because there is science and there is a point in living because there is art.
Material prosperity of a society is the foremost and often unseen sign of its economic downfall to come.
Secrecy is the most secretive aspect of the universe.
Islam is a religion of peace. It is peaceful at its conclusion. But to reach that conclusion, I suspect, it obsessively and intolerantly demands to put up a weapon.
Heaven occupied by the most earthly people. -(on England)
Man is both the strongest and the weakest animal. He is strongest because he is the most intelligent and weakest because there are maximum number of situations capable of upsetting him.
Man is the most delicate animal.
Morals ruin the men of virtue.
A revolution is a rapid evolution.
If freedom is short of weapons we must compensate with willpower. (-Adolf Hitler)
Western culture is an appearance; Eastern culture is a reality.
In west culture is an appearance. In east it is a reality.
Brain kills heart and vice versa.
The 21st century began with a war between an advanced cunning culture and a primordial, religiously obsessive one. And I fear it will end with the end of all possible ones.
Man is a flawed, troublemaker, and pathetic animal.
The Eiffel Tower is a majestic philosophical monumental representation of the entire humanity being intellectually challenged by the mighty starry heavens of divinity.
All food is Indian.
A prophet is a divine puppet.
The music that does not make you think is not music.
Mahatma Gandhi: A great pacific terrorist.
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b. 1979
Creator of Superultramodern Science & Philosophy
Founder & President of British Superultramodern Scientific Institution (BSSI)
Cambridge, UK.