S. T. Joshi Quotes

... no man or woman should depend upon another for maintenance and necessaries. Family discord and social degradation will never end till each depends upon herself.

I regard irreligious people as pioneers. If there had been no priesthood the world would have advanced ten thousand times better than it has now.

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

After marriage, husband and wife become two sides of a coin; they just can't face each other, but still they stay together.

The angel within me thrives on the devil within me.

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.'

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

The stem of greatness sprouts from the seed of sacrifice.

The blind cannot see the sun.

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

The universe is a philosophical abyss.

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

In reality the universe has no geometry.

The worst of lusts is vanity.

The existence of God is the ultimate paradox.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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 world is a contradiction; the universe a paradox.

Vishnu came in the form of Hitler to be an inspiration for the Kalki to come.

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

Moral certainty is intellectual immorality

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

An atheist is as religious as a theist.

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.

Man is programmed to find the programmer.

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.

Necessity is the ethnicity of truth.

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

Religions, themselves, are (intellectual) blasphemies.

Pain is a poison; pleasure an intoxicant.

Life is a question asked by God about the way he exists.

The history of science is the saga of nature defying common sense.

It is impossible to imagine existence void of any intelligence.

Laugh and a moment will soon arrive when you cry.

Genius is the ability to see the self-evident where the rest of the world turns blind.

Any systematic body of knowledge is science. The more systematic the body of knowledge is the more scientific it is.

The only absurdity in which I find equally immense compassion and morality is Christianity - though the compassion is outlandish and the morality is blemished.

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

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