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> [“It is amazing how dispiriting it can be to enter a learning environment and to be made immediately to suppress your own exploratory inclinations. So many learning environments in the world are still like this. Don’t question what you are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ashim-shanker/it-is-amazing-how-dispiriting-it-can-be-to-enter-a-learning/)

[Ashim Shanker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ashim-shanker/)

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> [“Human freedom brings with it the burden of choice and of its consequences. As humankind is akin to claim for its own special privilege a certain unique destiny not afforded with equal measure to other organisms, so must it further—if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ashim-shanker/human-freedom-brings-with-it-the-burden-of-choice-and-of-its/)

[Ashim Shanker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ashim-shanker/)

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## Other authors on Human potential

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## More by Ashim Shanker

> [“Never miss an opportunity to be truly and deeply humiliated! The shame will carve you down to an individual of exquisite layering, and in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ashim-shanker/never-miss-an-opportunity-to-be-truly-and-deeply-humiliated-the-shame/)

[Ashim Shanker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ashim-shanker/)

> [“The fundamental basis by which the court’s decision might be made is, in itself, imperfect and subject to contradictions. There is very little consideration…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ashim-shanker/the-fundamental-basis-by-which-the-court-s-decision-might-be-made-is/)

[Ashim Shanker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ashim-shanker/)

> [“In my mind, I could sense their roots under the soil, creeping in helical tangles of ever-increasing complexity outward and in all directions—out beyond…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ashim-shanker/in-my-mind-i-could-sense-their-roots-under-the-soil-creeping-in/)

[Ashim Shanker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ashim-shanker/)

> [“These facilities were relatively rustic even for this area of the world. Other inns at least had indoor plumbing and electricity. Most even had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ashim-shanker/these-facilities-were-relatively-rustic-even-for-this-area-of-the/)

[Ashim Shanker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ashim-shanker/)

> [“Perhaps, there is no such person who can be called truly free, but only those who can be deemed so by comparison.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ashim-shanker/perhaps-there-is-no-such-person-who-can-be-called-truly-free-but-only/)

[Ashim Shanker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ashim-shanker/)

> [“The arrow of time obscures memory of both past and future circumstance with innumerable fallacies, the least trivial of which is perception.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ashim-shanker/the-arrow-of-time-obscures-memory-of-both-past-and-future/)

[Ashim Shanker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ashim-shanker/)

> [“Innumerable arcs intersect and scatter into a vast indefinite sea.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ashim-shanker/innumerable-arcs-intersect-and-scatter-into-a-vast-indefinite-sea/)

[Ashim Shanker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ashim-shanker/)

> [“The...act of surrender—or devotion, as the case may be—was, to him, a kind of lifeline for those who sought a quick answer and didn’t…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ashim-shanker/the-act-of-surrender-or-devotion-as-the-case-may-be-was-to-him-a-kind/)

[Ashim Shanker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ashim-shanker/)

> [“It is amazing how dispiriting it can be to enter a learning environment and to be made immediately to suppress your own exploratory inclinations.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ashim-shanker/it-is-amazing-how-dispiriting-it-can-be-to-enter-a-learning/)

[Ashim Shanker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ashim-shanker/)

> [“All events of the past withered to mere skeletons, veined and fleshed of fancy.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ashim-shanker/all-events-of-the-past-withered-to-mere-skeletons-veined-and-fleshed/)

[Ashim Shanker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ashim-shanker/)

> [“It seemed a ruse that fear of death should be the sole motivation for living and, yet, to quell this fear made the prospect…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ashim-shanker/it-seemed-a-ruse-that-fear-of-death-should-be-the-sole-motivation-for/)

[Ashim Shanker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ashim-shanker/)

> [“The temporal heart resonates at whispers From a Truth overarching Of whose countenance Timeless Intellect yearns vainly to fathom”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ashim-shanker/the-temporal-heart-resonates-at-whispers-from-a-truth-overarching-of/)

[Ashim Shanker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ashim-shanker/)

> [“Was it possible to feel nostalgic about something that had never happened to him, possible for nostalgia to be taken in by the body…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ashim-shanker/was-it-possible-to-feel-nostalgic-about-something-that-had-never/)

[Ashim Shanker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ashim-shanker/)

> [“Naturally there was the notion of private property as a pragmatic concept, for individuals or groups have a proclivity to tend to their own…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ashim-shanker/naturally-there-was-the-notion-of-private-property-as-a-pragmatic/)

[Ashim Shanker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ashim-shanker/)

> [“What are the units of ontology really that I should be a part of a whole, but not be, in all my awareness, chiefly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ashim-shanker/what-are-the-units-of-ontology-really-that-i-should-be-a-part-of-a/)

[Ashim Shanker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ashim-shanker/)

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