“Slavery is bad, but even worse is blind discipleship to hallucinations.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“It's a new world we gotta build - founded on love, tempered by reason.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Baptize yourself with the flow of rational thinking and the world is bound to become rational.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Progress of the human society is predicated upon the proper functioning of a key element of the human mind, that is reasoning.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Prayers bring comfort, not change. Change requires tangible human efforts.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Keep in mind my friend, if an answer is not rational, then it is not an answer, but a delusion.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Sin, blasphemy, heresy – all these are primitive ideas created by primitive creatures, unworthy of the title “human”.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“People often ask me, what my religion is. I tell them, I am a Christian to the Christian, a Jew to the… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I feel that one must deliberate then act, must scan every life choice with rational thinking but then base the decision on… — Jean Shinoda Bolen Copy Share Image
“It is all about the trade of ignorance. And India is such a bronze-age nation that is filled with these trades (astrology,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Fear-bola attacks the part of the brain responsible for rational thinking. It starts with a low-grade concern about the two health care… — Mel Robbins Copy Share Image
If faith cannot be reconciled with rational thinking, it has to be eliminated as an anachronistic remnant of earlier stages of culture… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“Listen closely my dear rational brave heart - I do not want you to believe anything I say, unless it can pass… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Democracy allows rhetoric, false empathy and emotion to pummel rational thinking - so it's no wonder so many politicians thrive in it. — David Harsanyi Copy Share Image
“Real teachers like Jesus, Buddha, Nanak, Rumi have much more to teach humanity, than the imaginary figure Krishna, concocted by an ancient… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Politicians such as Michelle Bachmann, Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich along with talking heads such as Bill O'Reilly, Glenn Beck and Anne… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
“His obsessions don’t manifest themselves physically, but they certainly lay other species of snares and traps in hidden corners of his mind.… — Grant Ginder Copy Share Image
The re-interpretation and eventually (sic) eradication of the concept of right and wrong which has been the basis of child training, the… — Brock Chisholm Copy Share Image
If you attach your mind to any ideology, you're going to be on a road, and that road may or may not… — Joe Rogan Copy Share Image
“In science fiction, telepaths often communicate across language barriers, since thoughts are considered to be universal. However, this might not be true.… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
“It is said that humanity has evolved one-sidedly, growing in technical power without any comparable growth in moral integrity, or, as some… — Alan W. Watts Copy Share Image
“Life is fundamentally a mental state. We live in a dream world that we create. Whose life is truer, the rational man… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“People always confuse intelligence with rational thinking and skepticism. I think it’s a big mistake to assume anyone that follows a cult,… — Jon Moore Copy Share Image
Rational thinking which is free from assumptions ends therefore in mysticism. To relate oneself in the spirit of reverence for life to… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
“Killing a bunch of Jihadis may be morally justified, to save humanity from their wrath, but it won't terminate Jihad for long.… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“People often assume that science is only about empirical research - that it's merely about facts and figures, which happens to be… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Finally, we arrive at the question of the so-called nonpolitical man. Hitler not only established his power from the very beginning with… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
“Was it malice or stupidity? Doha had found that the motivation for most confusing attributes of other people could be classified into… — Molly Collier Copy Share Image
I try to be fairly apolitical for the most part, but where I was willing to step boldly over that line, was… — Brad Paisley Copy Share Image
“Instincts are effective tools of survival, but when it comes to finding true answers to real questions, your rational thinking is the… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“It doesn't matter whether our certain thought or feeling or behavior is reasonable or not, what we must be aware of is,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“You are not going to heaven if you do good, you are not going to hell if you do evil, you'll simply… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Harmony is not a luxury, it is an existential necessity of the species. And to achieve it, if a hundred Bibles have… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Family relationships trigger childhood wounds, and those wounds often trump our rational thinking. We can't 'rationally' transcend the kind of primal pain… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
For me, I think the greatest achievements of science is to allow humanity to realize that our world is comprehensible. Through science,… — Jim Al-Khalili Copy Share Image
On any longer view, man is only fitfully committed to the rational -- to thinking, seeing, learning, knowing. Believing is what he's… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“That sort of thing doesn't happen any more," reiterated Wensleydale, the rational thinking person. "'Cos we invented Science and all the vicars… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Rational thinking is an important aspect of human nature, but we have imagination, we have ambition, we have irrational fear, we are… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
“Patriotism or Nationalism without reasoning is what I call “Nationalist Fundamentalism”, which is as dangerous as “Religious Fundamentalism”.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image