“Can criticism the, as criticism, solve the great questions, or can it merely pose them? At the beginning of knowledge we believe the former. But the more we know, the more certain we become of the latter. So long as we hope, we call the secret a problem.”
Source: The Decline of the West, Vol 2: Perspectives of World History
“Sleep of conscience, awakening of prejudice.”
Source: Time to End Democracy: The Meritocratic Manifesto
“Jesus is long gone, he is not coming back. Worshipping him and hoping for his so-called second coming may give you comfort, but it doesn't do anything for either Jesus or the society. The only way you can make any difference in the lives of others as well as your own, is by becoming Christ-like in character and action.”
Source: Every Generation Needs Caretakers: The Gospel of Patriotism
“Being righteous and being right are two different things, one indicates morality, another indicates rationality, and we need a healthy balance between both to live and prosper with health, sanity and serenity.”
Source: I Vicdansaadet Speaking: No Rest Till The World is Lifted
“Warmth without reason leads to regress, reason without warmth leads to lifelessness.”
Source: I Vicdansaadet Speaking: No Rest Till The World is Lifted
“Thinking resembles swimming in the ocean. Some prefer calm shoreline waters, others with a taste for adventure, go deeper.”
“Curiosity kills prejudice.”
Source: Boldly Comes Justice: Sentient Not Silent
“Be informed, practice reason and act with conscience – that’s the golden principle of a civilized society.”
Source: Boldly Comes Justice: Sentient Not Silent
“If you are mindful, Asclepius, these things should seem true to you, but they will be beyond belief if you have no knowledge. To understand is to believe, and not to believe is not to understand. Reasoned discourse does (not) get to the truth, but mind is powerful, and, when it has been guided by reason up to a point, it has the means to get (as far as) the truth. After mind had considered all this carefully and had discovered that all of it is in harmony with the discoveries of reason, it came to believe, and in this beautiful belief it found rest. By an act of god, then, those who have understood find what I have been saying believable, but those who have not understood do not find it believable. Let this much be told about understanding and sensation.”
Source: Hermetica: The Greek Corpus Hermeticum and the Latin Asclepius
“I have great hopes that we shall learn in due time how to emotionalise and mythologise their science to such an extent that what is, in effect, a belief in us (though not under that name) will creep in while the human mind remains closed to belief in the Enemy.”
Source: The Screwtape Letters