Kedar Joshi Quotes

God is a philosophical black hole-the point where reason breaks down.

The angel within me thrives on the devil within me.

How miserable a solipsist is! It is rather senseless for him to even assert his belief in solipsism, for, on the one hand, if his belief is false it is like committing intellectual suicide, and, on the other hand, if his belief is true it is an act of intellectual insanity.

The final discovery is the discovery of knowledge.

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

If knowledge is my God, doubt would be my religion.

It is human to search for the theory of everything and it is superhuman to find it.

Certainty is the most vivid condition of ignorance and the most necessay condition for knowledge.

The meaning of life is 'the ultimate questioner's vanity.'

The stem of greatness sprouts from the seed of sacrifice.

Professionalism is nothing but a crude insistance on the mechanization of mankind.

The blind cannot see the sun.

If the universe is a non-spatial computer, a 'time machine' is a program that allows a user to have the same (ontologically non-spatial) feelings or experiences that occurred or s/he merely feels to have occurred in the past, with an in-built function to have different feelings or experiences than those of the past, and thus creating a possibility to change the past or to rewrite history in a pseudo sense.

The worst mockery God can make of a moralist is that He compels him to be a solipsist.

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

The worst insult I can inflict on life is that I do not reflect on its meaning.

The world is a contradiction; the universe a paradox.

The worst of lusts is vanity.

He is man whose heart is spirited and eyes are wet each moment on account of the sorrow, compassion, virtue, beauty, and nobility that decorate this world.

The question is how the questioner exists.

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.

Energy is the inherent capacity of the universe to make matter exist.

An atheist is as religious as a theist.

The universe is a philosophical abyss.

There is only one real computer - the universe - whose hardware is made up of non-spatial states of consciousness and software is made up of superhuman as well as non-superhuman thoughts.

Moral certainty is intellectual immorality

The worst of all superstitions may be that astrology is a superstition.

God is the ultimate philosophical questioner, the one who asks the logically paradoxical ultimate philosophical question about the nature of his own existence.

The existence of God is the ultimate paradox.

In reality the universe has no geometry.

The world is a philosophical prison and Man is the philosophical prisoner.

The world is a garden of philosophy. God is its gardener; Man is the visitor. And any tree that does not bear fruits of philosophy either does not belong to that garden or is yet to be grown.

Meditation should be the foremost technology of the 21st century; the technology of reprogramming the non-spatial universal computer.

Painful life is brutal and painless life is superficial.

Man is programmed to find the programmer.

Necessity is the ethnicity of truth.

God has created the world to play hide-and-seek with man.

Pain is a poison; pleasure an intoxicant.

Religions, themselves, are (intellectual) blasphemies.

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

Truth may have been found but might never be known.

Christianity would be helpless without the idea of freewill and the idea of freewill would be helpless without incongruity.

What can be greater to life than to understand its meaning.

The sound of life has divine silence.

The pearl whose possession separates man from beast, the pearl which is the rarest find - the best among virtues - is forgiveness.

An idealistic lover is a blind lover, and therefore a true lover; a pragmatic lover is a sighted lover, and therefore a false lover.

If you want to be successful, never laugh!

The difference between religion and science is the difference between thoughtless certainty and thoughtful doubt.

The real doubt is the doubt that doubts that it doubts.

A fundamental condition of Being is slavery. Man is the slave of God, and God that of His vanity.