“Saya adalah manusia yang baik karena saya menginginkannya, bukan karena agama, undang-undang, atau paksaan.”
“It is the alienated insight into the actual objectification of man and into the actual appropriation of his objective nature by the destruction of the alienated character of the objective world, by the transcendence of the objective world in its alienated existence, just as atheism which transcends God is the emergence of theoretical humanism, and communism which transcends private property is the vindication of actual human life as man's property, the emergence of practical humanism. Or, atheism is humanism mediated through itself by the transcendence of religion, and communism is humanism mediated through itself by the transcendence of private property. Only through the transcendence of this mediation--which is, however, a necessary presupposition--emerges positive humanism, humanism emerging positively from itself.”
Source: Selected Writings
“There is a God who cares so deeply about you. His purpose is to lead you to a place of victory. Trust in Him, and follow His will. In the right season, you will shout sounds of victory.”
Source: A Manual for Victory
“First tolerance, then scripture.
First conscience, then science.
First empathy, then philosophy.
First ethics, then engineering.”
Source: Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat
“My life is the experiment
I leave to the world;
neither failed, nor successful,
I am just a humanizing mutation.”
Source: Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat
“If you would learn to speak all tongues and conform to the customs of all nations, if you would travel farther than all travellers, be naturalized in all climes, and cause the Sphinx to dash her head against a stone, even obey the precept of the old philosopher, and Explore thyself.”
Source: Walden; or, Life in the Woods
“A miracle is merely the logic we do not yet understand.”
Source: The Call of the North – 42 Weeks and One Day
“Man is nothing else but that which he makes of himself. That is the first principle of existentialism.”
Source: Existentialism is a Humanism
“Insan Chalisa (Abridged)
Jai Insan, Chetna Sagar;
Jai Vivek, Vidyut Ujagar.
Rise Insan, Ilaaj Ilahi;
Al Hub, Hayat Paygamber.
Ik Onkar, Satnam Shahada;
One Insan Bodhi Vihara.
Born of Ash, Deed Amartya;
Once Ignited, Ashiq Ananta.
Vision Virat, Vajra Avinashi;
Kafir Kareem to Vidyesh Vinashi.
Unbent Akhanda in Realm Divided,
Dervish Divaane, Advaita Ruhani.”
Source: Sonnets From The Mountaintop
“No hero, no charlatan saint,
no prophet out to herd a flock;
unhinged in duty, an unflinching flame,
I'm just a signpost on the cosmic clock.”
Source: Sonnets From The Mountaintop