Superultramodern / Joshian Quotes and Dialogues 2
The world is rationally constructed, so reason can uncover its
secrets.
- Leibniz
We tend to think that the world is rationally constructed
because reason is our only tool to understand the world. I
rather deeply suspect that the construction of the world is not
based on reason but something else; so reason cannot uncover its
secrets.
- Joshi
The senses deceive us, but reason reveals the truth.
- Parmenides of Elea
The senses deceive us as space is a virtual reality, and I
suspect that reason is also a form of deception.
- Joshi
Man is a rational animal and I fear that it could be his
ultimate philosophical tragedy.
- Joshi
We have to believe that there is no proof.
- Joshi
Change and motion and space and time are all in the mind.
- Zeno of Elea
Yes, and the mind is non - spatial.
- Joshi
Space is really non - spatial.
- Joshi
Capitalism is the most sophisticated form of barbarism.
- Joshi
Fear is the worst form of violence.
- Joshi
Freedom is a relative term. Absolutely it is impossible.
- Joshi
To be is to be a slave.
- Joshi
To be moral is to be irrational, because morality is relative,
and in absolute terms it is absurd.
- Joshi
So far, an atheist is the one who cannot prove that God does
not exist. Also he is the one who only disagrees with the
conventional proofs / arguments for the existence of God.
- Joshi
If you want to meet a most narrow minded and orthodox person,
go and find an ordinary scientist.
- Joshi
Even absence is present.
- Joshi
An actor is a person who has two presents which are not in
agreement with each other.
- Joshi
Living is the greatest addiction.
- Joshi
The oldest and the youngest entity in the world is world
itself.
- Joshi
The most uncertain and adventures form of science is called
philosophy.
- Joshi
Language is a servant of thought. And sometimes the commands of
the masters are too profound to obey.
- Joshi
The greatest wisdom lies in the deepest understanding of the
universe.
- Joshi
Great things are often victims of harsh criticism. Philosophy is
one of them.
- Joshi
No human society can be perfect or ideal mainly because its
needs and capacities can never be in harmony.
- Joshi
A ( logical / conceptual ) paradox can exist only if reason is
flawed.
- Joshi
I think the problem of creation of the universe involves a
paradox which further implies that reason is flawed.
- Joshi
Representation of thought is always non - spatial. Thought
cannot exist in a spatial form.
- Joshi
Writing is a thinker's way to perfection.
- Joshi
Perhaps nothing is ultimately true or false.
- Joshi
Everything knows something.
- Joshi
Life is a dream because space is a virtual reality.
- Joshi
The study of economics is equivalent to the study of structure
of a system. Greater the structure greater the economics.
- Joshi
Man is a philosophical animal. ( I think somebody has said this
before. )
- Joshi
A big industrial city, say London, and a small undeveloped
village are both extremes, that sound me like an uncivilised
barbaric place. The later is far backward in time while the
former inhabits only machines. I rather prefer a golden mean,
like Cambridge.
- Joshi
As Man tends to be developed he tends to be isolated. And that
is his destiny.
- Joshi
Nature by its very nature is very brutal and partial, though Man
has somehow managed to change the nature of its brutality and
partiality.
- Joshi
The most reasonable definition of intelligence is a
characteristic, let it be of any kind. This implies that to be
is to be intelligent.
- Joshi
God does not play dice.
- Einstein
Only God can play dice. If he does or does not is itself a bit
dicey.
- Joshi
Behind the apparent spatial things there are real non - spatial
thoughts.
- Joshi
The essence of life is existence, conscious or unconscious,
real or virtual.
- Joshi
Great minds invent, good minds criticise, and ordinary minds
follow.
- Joshi
A genius is the one who arrives at a revolutionary thought,
largely on his own.
- Joshi
My intellectual honesty is often misconstrued as my
intellectual arrogance. I'm too honest to be arrogant.
- Joshi
World and life are nothing but two perspectives to look at the
same thing.
- Joshi
I have not cleared up traditional philosophical doubts ( and I
extremely doubt that any human ever can ). I've just
systematically pointed out likelihoods.
- Joshi Life when seen through common sense is often a sweet
fairy tail. But when seen philosophically it is definitely a
cold shivering tragedy. Common man often enjoys life but a
philosopher definitely suffers.
- Joshi
The first step towards genuine progress is solitude.
- Joshi
The word philosophy, as it is distinguished from science, is
misleading, as it means what philosophy contains is impossible
to be a systematic body of knowledge, and what science contains
is certain or proved.
- Joshi
What a tragedy ! Others cannot see what I see clearly. And I can
do nothing to make them see what I see.
- Joshi
Justice is a myth. Or it is a limit which we may only tend to.
- Joshi
When Man is equally ( or more than equally ) concerned with the
welfare of other Men capitalism will be replaced by communism. (
Until then any attempt to implement communism shall be futile
and lead to some kind of capitalism. ) However, I don't see any
realistic prospects for such a dramatic transformation in the
nature of mankind.
- Joshi
Life is practically worth but philosophically pointless.
- Joshi
The phenomena which relativity theory is based upon do not at
all imply that space and time are a unified and inseparable
whole - the four - dimensional continuum of space - time. The
thought that they are is a sheer misconstruction.
- Joshi
A scientist is usually remembered by his theories; a
philosopher by his quotations.
- Joshi
The love of art is a conscious Man's best portrayal of his
consciousness, for apart from consciousness art is useless.
- Joshi
I fear that Man chose the easiest but the worst option instead
of the hardest but the best.
- Joshi
Miscellaneous :
Morals are absolutely relative and Power is relatively absolute.
Man built society to practice barbarism in a smarter way.
Expect of Man God, and he will appear to be a beast. Expect of
Man a beast, and he will appear to be God.
I deeply appreciate the idea that Man is prospective divine
being.
The mother of humour is falsehood, the father of humour is
eccentricity. And its child is laughter.
Love of power weakens the power of love.
Man is a philosophical animal.
- Dr Kedar Joshi, BSc MA DSc DA, PBSSI
Cambridge, UK.