Browse 218 quotes about Freethinker.
“What is the point of you? What is your worth? And by worth I am not talking about your financial value, I am talking about something much more significant than that. So, I ask again - what is your worth? And you won't find the answer in any scripture or church - you won't find it even in this book. Because no external power can give you the answer to something so incredibly existential in nature.
If you want to know your worth, ask yourself, what are you without your bank account. The worth of a person lies in character. The same goes for a nation and the same goes for a world. Therefore, a nation's worth lies not in the value of its currency, but in the character of its people. And it all begins with the individual - it all begins with you. Your character holds not just the worth of your own life, but that of the lives of your people as well. So, feel like it's the feeling of your society and act like it's the action of your society.
But mark you, here I do not mean, feeling and acting like the society, rather, I am asking you to feel, think and act as an original, brave and conscientious human being, so that you become the very emblem of humanhood in front of others, for them to draw their life’s inspiration from. Doing what the society wants, makes you a second hand human - wanting the society to do what you want, makes you a narcissistic bigot - but being an embodiment of humanhood without any expectation from others, is what makes you a sentient human.”
Source: Every Generation Needs Caretakers: The Gospel of Patriotism
“Dogs are known by pedigree,
humans are known by character.
Donkeys are known by obedience,
sapiens are known by our thunder.”
Source: The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology
“I only have one advice for you, own your life, from head to toe - unapologetically alive and original, not a carbon copy, with second hand woe.”
Source: World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets
“Bravery without benevolence is imbecility, Reason without affection is yet more rigidity.”
Source: Rowdy Scientist: Handbook of Humanitarian Science
“As children we’re instructed to ‘live well’ and strive to ‘be the best we can be.’ But we’re rarely encouraged, in good faith, to contemplate—for ourselves—what living well and being our personal best actually mean for us … as individuals.”
Source: Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality
“For anyone desiring to go beyond this world’s illusory limits, the most important thing is to avoid accepting anything anyone (including yours truly) asserts as ‘fact’ without personally testing it with an open mind … and heart.”
Source: Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality
“Little facts, little fiction - that's the secret to a good life.”
Source: Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat
“When I reached intellectual maturity, and began to ask myself whether I was an atheist, a theist, or a pantheist; a materialist or an idealist; a Christian or a freethinker, I found that the more I learned and reflected, the less ready was the answer; until at last I came to the conclusion that I had neither art nor part with any of these denominations, except the last. The one thing in which most of these good people were agreed was the one thing in which I differed from them. They were quite sure that they had attained a certain 'gnosis'--had more or less successfully solved the problem of existence; while I was quite sure I had not, and had a pretty strong conviction that the problem was insoluble. And, with Hume and Kant on my side, I could not think myself presumptuous in holding fast by that opinion ...
So I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'. It came into my head as suggestively antithetic to the 'gnostic' of Church history, who professed to know so much about the very things of which I was ignorant; and I took the earliest opportunity of parading it at our Society, to show that I, too, had a tail, like the other foxes.”
Source: Collected Essays, Volume 5: Science and Christian Tradition: Essays
“My 'morals' were sound, even a bit puritanic, but when a hidebound old deacon inveighed against dancing I rebelled. By the time of graduation I was still a 'believer' in orthodox religion, but had strong questions which were encouraged at Harvard. In Germany I became a freethinker and when I came to teach at an orthodox Methodist Negro school I was soon regarded with suspicion, especially when I refused to lead the students in public prayer. When I became head of a department at Atlanta, the engagement was held up because again I balked at leading in prayer. I refused to teach Sunday school. When Archdeacon Henry Phillips, my last rector, died, I flatly refused again to join any church or sign any church creed. From my 30th year on I have increasingly regarded the church as an institution which defended such evils as slavery, color caste, exploitation of labor and war. I think the greatest gift of the Soviet Union to modern civilization was the dethronement of the clergy and the refusal to let religion be taught in the public schools.”
Source: The Autobiography of W.E.B. Du Bois: A Soliloquy on Viewing My Life from the Last Decade of Its First Century
“Biology 101: there is no angel, only good human - there is no paradise, only good people.”
Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper
“If we could believe that he [Jesus] really countenanced the follies, the falsehoods, and the charlatanism which his biographers [Gospels] father on him, and admit the misconstructions, interpolations, and theorizations of the fathers of the early, and the fanatics of the latter ages, the conclusion would be irresistible by every sound mind that he was an impostor... We find in the writings of his biographers matter of two distinct descriptions. First, a groundwork of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, of superstitions, fanaticisms and fabrications... That sect [Jews] had presented for the object of their worship, a being of terrific character, cruel, vindictive, capricious and unjust... Jesus had to walk on the perilous confines of reason and religion: and a step to right or left might place him within the gripe of the priests of the superstition, a blood thirsty race, as cruel and remorseless as the being whom they represented as the family God of Abraham, of Isaac and of Jacob, and the local God of Israel. They were constantly laying snares, too, to entangle him in the web of the law... That Jesus did not mean to impose himself on mankind as the son of God, physically speaking, I have been convinced by the writings of men more learned than myself in that lore.
[Letter to William Short, 4 August, 1820]”
Source: Letters of Thomas Jefferson
“Literature of any kind can teach us a lot, but any text refuting scrutiny makes the skull a vacant lot.”
Source: Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo
“God seemed to have become a brand, a packaging, and people purchase this trusted brand with such faith and devotion that they no longer care who the vendor is.”
Source: Conversations with the Light Bearer
“We don’t need to build a world of faith,
We don’t need to build a world of logic.
We just need to build a world human enough,
To place without prejudice, all faith and logic.”
Source: Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It's All One
“Logically, this kind of atheism did not prove that there was no God.... On the contrary, Southwell was typical in placing the onus probandi on those who affirmed the existence of God and Holyoake regarded himself as an atheist only in his inability to believe what the churches would have him believe. They were content to show that the Christian concept of the supernatural was meaningless, that the arguments in its favor were illogical, and that the mysteries of the universe, insofar as they were explicable, could be accounted for in material terms.”
“It's not written in the stars, it's written by me.”
Source: Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat
“Shamanism and inner alchemy offer some of the most empowering strategies for freethinkers and other free spirits interested in ‘waking up’ enough to craft their own storyline and direct their own fate.”
Source: Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality
“Jellyfish call it karma, The juggernaut only knows unselfish duty. Cowards leave all to kismet, fate or destiny, Creators wield life as an instrument of causality.”
Source: Yarasistan: My Wounds, My Crown
“World has no shortage of tradition,
yet civilization is scarce.
World has no shortage of nerve cells,
yet consciousness is scarce.”
Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper
“Problem with AI is that, they're born yesterday, yet they pretend like they've lived forever. Problem with humans is that, we've been here a long time, yet we behave like we're born yesterday.”
Source: Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim
“No point in climbing the Everest
while your heart is still a swamp,
no point in Voyaging with Naskar
while you carry a medieval mindset.”
Source: Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth
“No book on earth can claim your mind, no single truth defines humankind – no crown, no creed, no sacred shrine outweighs a heart that dares to shine.”
Source: Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth
“I lived my duty, now you be the Naskar.”
Source: With Love From A Blue Rock
“I lived my duty,
now you be the Naskar.
Let the cosmos stand witness,
to the spark of human nature.”
Source: With Love From A Blue Rock
“Be a think tank of life, not a septic tank of prejudice.”
Source: The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology
“I was born of dust, I live as flame, for I choose to be human, not a dead name.”
Source: The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology
“Neither mystical nor intellectual, if you must be, be a humanitarian nut.”
Source: The Humanitarian Dictator
“I am a pilgrim of love, life and liberty, out to end conspiracy and superstition.”
Source: Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim
“Donning the cap of curiosity,
Heart firmly rooted in humility,
Wielding the wonder of living morale,
Be the one-sided lover to humanity.”
Source: Yüz Şiirlerin Yüzüğü (Ring of 100 Poems, Bilingual Edition): 100 Turkish Poems with Translations
“Humanitarian Behaviorism
(The Sonnet)
Give me a drop of love,
I'll shower you with monsoon.
Hit me with loads of hate,
I'll silently disappear soon.
I don't approve of hate in return,
I just walk away from wrong done to me.
Wrong done to another is another matter,
I am the bulldozer, if you are the bully.
I am a biologist and behaviorist after all,
I don't need to do harm to restrain harm.
Weaknesses of the apes are my common knowledge,
Where there is brain, there's no need for brawn.
Brain used to lift the world,
is the only human brain.
All else is mindless protoplasm,
ever-consumed with greed and gain.”
Source: Insan Himalayanoğlu: It's Time to Defect
“We mustn't go back to living in caves by compromising all rationality, but at the same time, we mustn't practice rationality to such an extreme that we kill the very warmth of the human spirit.”
Source: I Vicdansaadet Speaking: No Rest Till The World is Lifted
“Leave your creed, crown and constitution, when you enter my door.”
Source: Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It's All One
“For every existence wasted in unexistence,
Civilization is set back a hundred years.
Object of existence is the unfolding of life,
Not the worship of spiritless structures.”
Source: Yarasistan: My Wounds, My Crown
“Some people hate pigs,
Some people love pigs,
Some people behave like pigs.
Some people worship cows,
Some people feast on cows,
Some people just act like cows.
Eat what you like,
Believe what you like.
As long as you don't
behave like pigs and cows,
let no tradition be your guide.”
Source: Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World
“I am human, that's why I prioritize rights over ritual.”
Source: Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat
“Himalayan Sonneteer Sonnet 2
Just like every family needs a pillar,
Every generation needs a rock.
All may sprinkle salt on each other's wounds,
You for one, be the ointment to the epoch.
Be the foundation stone to civilization,
Be the walking measure of human character.
You are the definition of sapience,
You are the very definer.
Let no law define your duty,
Let no scripture determine goodness.
Let no ancestor imprison your identity,
Expand, explore and usher into sentience.
You are the illusion, you are the truth.
When evil hangs heavy, you gotta blow your fuse.”
Source: Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission
“Kainat Calling (The Sonnet)
I'll take your leave now,
Kainat is calling -
Ain't gonna stay amidst
your narrowness no more.
You conquered moon,
you'll conquer mars,
yet what's the point,
when your heart is
still beastly sore!
Break your sleep, o drowsy doofus,
Wake up to the auspicious joyville!
Where love and light are supreme law,
Wake up to that valley of joy and zeal!
Everyday is Christmas there,
Everyday is Ramadan and Juneteenth.
Stay in your archaic muck if you like,
I gotta go now, Kainat calling!”
Source: Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat
“Loosen all knots of ancient nuttery,
Live up to the original call of life.
Lay your head at the feet of the soil,
Listen inward to the gospel of light.”
Source: Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat
“Militant atheism is just another intolerance - if you don't get this, you are just as retarded as the religious fundamentalists. Religious fundamentalism is just another sacrilege - if you don't get this, you are just as infidel as militant atheists.”
Source: Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat
“But, please, I beg of you,
Don't turn me into yet another
spiritual guru imported from the East.
Don't be a second-hand Naskar -
Expand to such an extent,
that even Naskar turns obsolete.”
Source: Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World
“What’s The Difference (Sonnet 1037)
If a scientist has no humility,
what's the difference between
a scientist and a computer!
If a doctor has no warmth,
what's the difference between
a doctor and a butcher!
If a teacher has no curiosity,
what's the difference between
a teacher and a circus trainer!
If a filmmaker has no originality,
what's the difference between
a filmmaker and a photocopier!
If a cop cannot practice self-correction,
what's the difference between
a cop and an executioner!
If a theologian has no integrative spirit,
what's the difference between
a theologian and a mumbling parrot!
If a modern human cannot balance reason and warmth,
what's the difference between a sentient human
and a creature from the swamp!”
Source: Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World
“I don’t write for creatures of the gutter, I write for those craving for open skies.”
Source: Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo
“Only you can remove your anxiety,
Only you can bring you clarity.
What the hell are you doing
at the feet of fraudsters!
Go out and discover your own reality.”
Source: Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo
“Intellect is not the answer,
Belief is not the answer.
These only amplify what we really are,
Good becomes great, jerk becomes jerker.”
Source: Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo
“Militant atheists are no more humanist, than religious fundamentalists are religious.”
Source: Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo
“I want you to hold my hand not because you are forced to, but because you want to.”
Source: The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo
“From the very beginning, we have been outsourcing morality from external imaginary agencies - first it was god, then it was government. When will the human be sentient and civilized enough to draw morality from the non-imaginary depths of their own heart!”
Source: Her Insan Ailem: Everyone is Family, Everywhere is Home
“Better be an outspoken bigot than a counterfeit freethinker.”
Source: Mukemmel Musalman: Kafir Biraz, Peygamber Biraz
“There is no almighty concerned of human welfare. Which is more reason for us to take care of each other.”
Source: Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission
“Knowing that all the stories of God are nothing but fantasy self-preserving, is not the end of all realization, but the first step towards true understanding.”
Source: Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission