Top 144 Quotes & Sayings by Kedar Joshi - Page 2

I have no proof for any proof.

England...the greatest and the most glorious and beautiful land on earth.

Noble spirits are heterodox.

The goal of science is to understand the fundamental reality and the goal of technology is to change that reality.

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

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.

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.

Life is painful to be meaningful.

God shall be my last discovery.

God is the only evil. His vanity made him the devil.

Energy is the inherent capacity of the universe to make matter exist.

I'm the only man; I'm the only philosopher.

The meaning of life is 'the ultimate questioner's vanity.'

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

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.

Man is more social within than without.

He 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.

Moral certainty is intellectual immorality

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

God exists, though He defies reason.

The universe is a philosophical abyss.

I'm a slumdog philosopher.

If Krishna is good, Christ is good, Allah is good, then Hitler cannot be bad.

Expect of Man God, and he will appear to be a beast. Expect of Man a beast, and he will appear to be God.

Theists and atheists are equally religious.

Meditation is the best engineering.

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

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 might 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.

I am 95% a theist and 5% an atheist; thus ultimately I am an agnostic.

The world is a contradiction; the universe a paradox.

So far we have done too much of 'spatial engineering'. The real thing is 'non-spatial engineering'.

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

The stem of greatness sprouts from the seed of sacrifice.

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

If you want to be successful, never laugh!

A fundamental condition of Being is slavery. Man is the slave of God, and God that of His vanity.

Ego is vital but not noble.

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.

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

Certainty is the most vivid condition of ignorance and the most necessay condition for knowledge.

For Man nothing is beyond doubt; for God everything is beyond doubt.

Whenever God looks devilish, I see the philosopher fail.

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

The universe is a gigantic non-spatial computer.

Professionalism is nothing but a crude insistance on the mechanization of mankind.

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

Humanity is the crime; God is the criminal.

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.

The ultimate philosophical challenge is to reveal the ontology of God.

God is the true realistic point where human reason mostly, if not completely, breaks down.

The blind cannot see the sun.

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

The most fundamental law of tragedy is that the moments of greatest happiness are the hardest to attain.

The difference between religion and science is the difference between thoughtless certainty and thoughtful doubt.

It is impossible to imagine existence void of any 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 self-evident proposition: '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.

Any systematic body of knowledge is science. The more systematic the body of knowledge is the more scientific it is.

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.

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

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