Brainy Quotes

No Quran, no Bible, no Gita, no Cow, is greater than the human self.

No text, being human creation, is free from flaws – it is the human mind that should be conscientious enough to accept their good elements and discard the bad ones.

If you are truly able to walk in the shoes of Christ, the very label of religion called Christianity would disappear from the face of earth.

He (Jesus) gave up his life not because of the so-called sins of humanity, but because he was too adamant to give in to orthodox monstrosity.

Christ attained the ultimate spiritual oneness through prayer and devotion, Moses and Mohammed through prayer, Buddha and all the Indian sages through intense meditation and so did I. And so can you.

Once you attain the state of Absolute Oneness or Non-Duality, you become one of those spiritual legends that humanity so gloriously venerates as the founding fathers of religion.

If you want to consume the cream of Christ's philosophy, then don't read the Bible, read Tolstoy.

Art is the medicine for the soul.

Peace first, sophistication later. Harmony first, luxury later.

Arise my friend, Awake my friend and work for humanity, not to make it sophisticated, but to make it peaceful first.

Be Gods and make Gods.

Sacrifice everything that is yours, to call up the humans in others.

Arise O lion-heart! Awake, O great soldier! Misery has come upon the world. It is wailing for help. It is wailing for redemption. Won’t you do anything, my friend!

Self is All. (First Principle of Humanism)

Whom the society deems worthless, once they discover their special inclination, it will change the very course of their lives as well as the shape of the very society that distastes them.

Help does not come from anywhere outside - it comes only from within ourselves.

Awake, O brave one! Arise, O lion-heart! Be the messenger that spreads compassion.

Excellence doesn’t come by obeying doctrines. Excellence comes through recognizing the flaws in the prevailing doctrines of the society and throwing them away if necessary in the path of progress.

Think of strength, dream of strength, live of strength.

Stop grovelling and start working.

You are born to build the society, not to follow it.

The world needs heroes. Be a hero and build your part of the world.

You don't die when your body stops functioning. You die when your name is uttered for the last time in the world.

Throw away the newspapers. Discard all the useless debates and gossiping. Start working in silence. Start working on your passion. And make the news yourself.

Have patience and keep working. Everything will come alright in time.

Tell them a lie big enough, they'll worship you as a sage. Tell them a truth big enough and they'll mock you.

a great reason why a gloomy history may repeat itself is that we may have neglected what history did. When we neglect what history did, history visits us in the same cloth

It is your existential responsibility to raise your child as a human being above everything else – catholic, muslim, jew, asian, caucasian or whatever.

The only classification to be made out of humans should be based on character and nothing but the character.

You may be James the American, or Mary the British, or anything else, but before all that, you are a human.

Now is the time that we make conscientious efforts towards becoming a real wise species, free from all sorts of bigotry, mysticism and sectarianism.

Only fools neglect the living God – the Human Self, while running after imaginary shadows.

Terrorism is born of fundamentalism not of religion.

Terrorism has nothing to do with religion, Islam or otherwise. Terrorism is born of fundamentalism not of religion.

You must remember, the so-called Jihadis who are in reality, mentally unstable individuals run by Quranic fundamentalists, do not represent the whole Muslim population of the world.

The moment when humanity learns to tame all its primeval biases, only then it will be worth the title "Sapiens", not any earlier.

We no longer have any time to waste, entertaining our dark side. It is time we recognize those evil elements of our internal world and start working untiringly on eradicating them.

If you want to teach real religion to the kids, throw away the Bible, the Vedas, the Quran and all the scriptures, and teach them the religion of love.

Humanism is not a pompous philosophy to be talked and debated about by a handful of intellectuals - it is the purest form of moral compass, which defines the civilized heart of thinking humanity.

Your life-blood is humanism. If it flows pure and clear, everything would happen nicely in the world - every defect in the society shall be healed.

Together you are a species that grows in all aspects of life – separated you are a mere speck of dust in vast ocean of space-time capable of nothing progressive.

We humans are the Tyrannosaurus Rex of mammals.

In the hands of thinking humanity, the purpose of the tool of Divinity or Religion is not the service of bookish doctrines, but the realization of the self.

Bring light to the ignorant, but more light to the educated, for the vanity of education makes modern humans more ignorant than the ignorant.

When one attains self-knowledge, distinctions of race and religion vanish.

One good, compassionate and caring Self is a thousand times greater than all the fanciful, imaginary supernatural entities in the world.

Faith is a natural evolutionary trait of the human mind, selected by Mother Nature as an internal coping-mechanism.

Biology is run by intricate cellular mechanisms. Cellular mechanisms are run by Nature. Thus, the more we attempt to understand Nature, the more we get closer to our existential properties.

When a person irrationally and quite pathologically sticks to the creeds of his scriptures too much, it can turn even a great human being into the worst version of himself.

Scriptures are meant to serve humanity, not humanity to serve scriptures.