“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
“From anger arises delusion; from delusion, confusion of memory; from confusion of memory, loss of reason; and from loss of reason one goes to complete ruin. ( Chapter- II, Shloka- 63)”
Source: श्रीमद्भगवद्गीता पदच्छेद, अन्वय, साधारण भाषाटीकासहित
“If honor was the reason quoted for bloodshed, conflict could be avoided by stripping it away entirely.”
Source: The Shadow of Kyoshi
“For behind is our animality and before us our humanity; human light, the only thing that can warm and enlighten us, the only thing that can emancipate us, give us dignity, freedom, and happiness, and realize fraternity among us, is never at the beginning, but, relatively to the epoch in which we live, always at the end of history.”
Source: God and the State
“Stagnant water never achieves anything, it neither quenches someone's thirst nor does it help grow a plant, it only breeds disease.”
Source: Ain't Enough to Look Human
“Be that as it may, one opinion that has often been expressed in the course of the war is absolutely mistaken: the opinion that, through its sheer magnitude and the gigantic mechanism of horror it set in motion, this war would frighten future generations out of ever making war again. Fear teaches men nothing. If men enjoy killing, no memory of war will deter them. Nor will the knowledge of the material damage wrought by war. Only in infinitesimal degree do men's actions spring from rational considerations. One can be thoroughly convinced that an action is absurd and still delight in it. Every passionate man does just that.”
Source: If the War Goes on: Reflections on War and Politics