"The truth comes as conqueror only because we have lost the art of receiving it as guest."

Tagore, Rabindranath on truth
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"God is a philosophical black hole – the point where reason breaks down."

Joshi, Kedar on god   

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

Joshi, Kedar on life
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"Nature, by its very nature, is very brutal and unequal. However, Man has somehow managed to transform the nature of its brutality and inequality."

Joshi, Kedar on nature   

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

Joshi, Kedar on jesus christ   

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

Joshi, Kedar on god   

"An atheist is as religious as a theist."

Joshi, Kedar on atheism   

"Man is the creature of circumstances."

Owen, Robert on man   

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

Joshi, Kedar on history   

"To preserve permanent good health, the state of mind must be taken into consideration."

Owen, Robert on health   

"In hell, the Devil is God."

Joshi, Kedar on evil
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"Man’s greatest battle is being a true philosopher."

Joshi, Kedar on battles   

"To train and educate the rising generation will at all times be the first object of society, to which every other will be subordinate."

Owen, Robert on society   

"Most of the history is a divine work of fiction."

Joshi, Kedar on history   

"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."

Joshi, Kedar on astrology   

"Truth may have been found but might never be known."

Joshi, Kedar on truth   

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

Joshi, Kedar on world   

"Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand With a grip that kills it."

Tagore, Rabindranath on bigotry   

"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."

Joshi, Kedar on faith   

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

Joshi, Kedar on world   

"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."

Joshi, Kedar on evil   

"Humanity is the crime, God is the criminal."

Joshi, Kedar on religion   

"In reality the universe has no geometry."

Joshi, Kedar on space   

"The world is a contradiction, the universe a paradox."

Joshi, Kedar on paradox
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"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."

Joshi, Kedar on life   

"Truth is orphan without matter and matter is impotent without truth."

Joshi, Kedar on truth   

"Evolution is not finished; reason is not the last word nor the reasoning animal the supreme figure of Nature. As man emerged out of the animal, so out of man the superman emerges."

Aurobindo, Ghose on man   

"Care not for time and success. Act out thy part, whether it be to fail or to prosper."

Aurobindo, Ghose on duty   

"The first rule of luck in business is that you should persevere in doing the right thing. Opportunities will come your way if you do."

Cohen, Ronald on business