“Erudition is the crude residue of wilted harvests; wit: the meddlesome weed that wilts them.” — Ashim Shanker Creativity Copy Share Image
“Innumerable arcs intersect and scatter into a vast indefinite sea.” — Ashim Shanker Arcs Copy Share Image
“All high mathematics serves to do is to beget higher mathematics.” — Ashim Shanker Astrophysics Copy Share Image
“All events of the past withered to mere skeletons, veined and fleshed of fancy.” — Ashim Shanker Illusion-of-memory Copy Share Image
“Light and Dark: each was unaware that the other existed.” — Ashim Shanker Ashim-shanker Copy Share Image
“Perhaps, there is no such person who can be called truly free, but only those who can be deemed so by comparison.” — Ashim Shanker Enslavement Copy Share Image
“The temporal heart resonates at whispers From a Truth overarching Of whose countenance Timeless Intellect yearns vainly to fathom” — Ashim Shanker Countenance Copy Share Image
“The arrow of time obscures memory of both past and future circumstance with innumerable fallacies, the least trivial of which is perception.” — Ashim Shanker Absurdism Copy Share Image
“At one moment, his eyes sparkled in the light and in the next they were enshrouded in shadow. What connected those bands… — Ashim Shanker Ashim-shanker Copy Share Image
“What are the units of ontology really that I should be a part of a whole, but not be, in all my… — Ashim Shanker Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Elegance is the perfect disguise for our violent nature—a mask so convincing that we often fool ourselves the moment we don it.” — Ashim Shanker Beauty Copy Share Image
“Never miss an opportunity to be truly and deeply humiliated! The shame will carve you down to an individual of exquisite layering,… — Ashim Shanker Character building Copy Share Image
“Doubt has become the veritable wellspring of my creative process and my philosophic explorations. It has equipped me with the temerity and… — Ashim Shanker Arrogance Copy Share Image
“He remembered a version of himself untrammeled by expectation, unimpeded by Ego. He had suffered in the many years since then, seeking… — Ashim Shanker Dreams Copy Share Image
“In my mind, I could sense their roots under the soil, creeping in helical tangles of ever-increasing complexity outward and in all… — Ashim Shanker Ashim-shanker Copy Share Image
“It seemed a ruse that fear of death should be the sole motivation for living and, yet, to quell this fear made… — Ashim Shanker Absurdism Copy Share Image
“Was it possible to feel nostalgic about something that had never happened to him, possible for nostalgia to be taken in by… — Ashim Shanker Ailment Copy Share Image
“It is amazing how dispiriting it can be to enter a learning environment and to be made immediately to suppress your own… — Ashim Shanker Drones Copy Share Image
“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… — Ashim Shanker Blind faith Copy Share Image
“There are underwater cables that seem to emerge and interweave the various objects drifting and rotating in space. I can imagine their… — Ashim Shanker Categorization Copy Share Image
“He had given himself over to endless wanderings, a life of migration from life-to-life, albeit not necessarily a set of migrations one… — Ashim Shanker Ashim-shanker Copy Share Image
“Each form is inadequate, like a graft to be rejected by its intractable and unrelenting host and thus can only serve a… — Ashim Shanker Ephemerality Copy Share Image
“What indeed is the half-life of a mortal consciousness? What is the half-life of a memory of that mortal consciousness? Of course,… — Ashim Shanker Ashim-shanker Copy Share Image
“These facilities were relatively rustic even for this area of the world. Other inns at least had indoor plumbing and electricity. Most… — Ashim Shanker Ashim-shanker Copy Share Image
“Sound waves, regardless of their frequency or intensity, can only be detected by the Mole Fly’s acute sense of smell—it is a… — Ashim Shanker Auditory Copy Share Image
“Princess Cookie’s cognitive pathways may have required a more comprehensive analysis. He knew that it was possible to employ certain progressive methods… — Ashim Shanker Aberration Copy Share Image
“Hyperbolic Suggestion is—as one might infer from the term’s literal interpretation—a method of suggestion induced upon the subject (or subjects), in question,… — Ashim Shanker Different approach Copy Share Image
“Here in Alpha City, we have a common saying: “What we call ‘sky’ is merely a figment of our narrative.” The most… — Ashim Shanker Absurdism Copy Share Image
“The Coach’s head was oblong with tiny slits that served as eyes, which drifted in tides slowly inward, as though the face… — Ashim Shanker Absurdism Copy Share Image
“Naturally there was the notion of private property as a pragmatic concept, for individuals or groups have a proclivity to tend to… — Ashim Shanker Arbitrariness Copy Share Image
“...imagine that you hold in one hand an oddly shaped stone. You keep this hand closed into a fist, but still you… — Ashim Shanker Form Copy Share Image
“The fundamental basis by which the court’s decision might be made is, in itself, imperfect and subject to contradictions. There is very… — Ashim Shanker A-priori Copy Share Image
“I feel as though dispossessed from the semblances of some crystalline reality to which I’d grown accustomed, and to some degree, had… — Ashim Shanker Burroughs Copy Share Image
“[He] seemed to possess, beneath it all, an immutable sense of self-assurance, but in addition to that, the look of a man… — Ashim Shanker Blind faith Copy Share Image
“Let us, thusly, embrace the assumption that to each advocate of a respective paradigm within his respective bubble, the phenomenological gaps between… — Ashim Shanker Confirmation-bias Copy Share Image
“Of what use was memory anyway than as a template for one's most reassuring self-deceptions!” — Ashim Shanker Deceptions Copy Share Image
“Writing creatively is a process of self-consumption that requires one to dive deeply inside of oneself with no guarantee of reemergence.” — Ashim Shanker Creatively Copy Share Image
“Obligation is a more effective weapon against the Will than any penalty, threat or act of force.” — Ashim Shanker Authority Copy Share Image
“Comfort...was the key ingredient to making the prisoner crave the prison.” — Ashim Shanker Apathy Copy Share Image
“Etchings endure, But not in Sand Meanings Collide To Unresolved Fragments Codes fizzle to Static They are not lost But Unheard Never… — Ashim Shanker Ephemerality Copy Share Image