S. T. Joshi Quotes

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

Humanity is the crime; God is the criminal.

The goal of science is to understand the fundamental reality and the goal of technology is to change that reality.

The most fundamental law of tragedy is that the moments of greatest happiness are the hardest to attain.

God is the only evil. His vanity made him the devil.

True love is like religion. It is full of devotion and free of doubt.

The failure of the past philosophers is largely the failure to see the self-evident.

If I am convinced that I will procure the profoundest idea only by undergoing the profoundest pain, I shall beg for strength to endure that pain.

Ego is vital but not noble.

I have no proof for any proof.

God shall be my last discovery.

I speculate that this is the best of all possible worlds, for philosophy is the best of humanity, and this world is the best philosophically.

For Man nothing is beyond doubt; for God everything is beyond doubt.

The physics of the 21st century shall deal essentially with non-spatial matter and non-spatial mechanics.

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

I am philosophical Christ; crucified on the cross of ignorance for the sake of divine vanity.

I'm a slumdog philosopher.

The ultimate philosophical challenge is to reveal the ontology of God.

Philosophy is the only excuse God has for his cruelty and vanity.

Whenever God looks devilish, I see the philosopher fail.

I know what the world exists for, but I know not how it came into existence. I see the design, but not the designer. I understand the question, but not the questioner.

The will of man is the will of God.

The best of humanity is philosophy.

The mother of creation is vanity.

Philosopher is becoming God in the process called life.

God is a questioner; Man is a philosopher.

God may not be omnipotent, but he is omniactive.

The world is solely occupied by a questioner and a philosopher.

My life is dedicated to the discovery of God, the advancement of science, and the pre-eminence of England.

The bushes of love are blossomed through the manure of hardship.

Life is too meaningful to die.

It is profoundly tragic that I am a slave, but it is profoundly joyous that I am God's slave, not that of a devil.

Passion is the soul of youth.

History is an orphan. It can speak, but cannot hear. It can give, but cannot take. Its wounds and tragedies can be read and known, but cannot be avoided or cured.

God's existence needs to be established independently before he can be brought into account for causation; it cannot be assumed at the start.

When I read passages like this, I want to look for the nearest wall to bang my head against.

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

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

This is where I belong. This is what I have always dreamt of.

Everyday. Every single day I watched how big the tree was. How magnificent that. One day just like that I climbed it. That day everything changed. Neither was the tree same to me nor was I anymore.

Ask a true scientist a very profound question on his science, and he will besilent. Ask a true religious person a very simple question on his religion, and he will be frenzied.

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

They often say, “What’s the point in astrology if you can’t change yourdestiny?”. Well, it’s true that you can’t change your destiny, but still it helpsknowing about gravity.

Friendship warrants giving up the ego, submitting you to the other person, and remaining non-judgemental in the whole process.

The language of sword is less powerful than the language of word, but most ofthe people understand the language of sword with greater power than thelanguage of word.

One gets wise by meeting people and meeting people through their literature.

When two warring people face each other, the war of words jumps beyond the subject. The subject remains no more central to the arguments.

Men and women…they are interested in each others bodies first. Other things come later.

Women are women…How can they ignore their bodies, their looks, and above all, their dresses!

Men and women...sill live together for centuries without agreeing on anything.