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“The reverend's sermon that day was beautiful. She approached the Bible with extraordinary acuity, and her interpretation of it was so humane, so thoughtful, that I became ashamed of the fact that I very rarely associated those two things with religion. My entire life would have been different if I'd grown up in this woman's church instead of in a church that seemed to shun intellectualism as a trap of the secular world, designed to shun intellectualism as a trap of the secular world, designed to undermine one's faith.”
― Yaa Gyasi, Transcendent Kingdom

“Under the old order, which enabled those whose lives were secure to play the fools and eccentrics at the expense of the others while the majority led a wretched existence, it had been only too easy to mistake the foolishness and idleness of a privileged minority for genuine character and originality. But the moment the lower classes had risen, and the privileges of those on top had been abolished, how quickly had those people faded, how unregretfully had they renounced independent ideas--apparently no one had ever had such ideas!”
― Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

“What have we left to dream about? The clouds are no longer the charioted servants of the sun, nor does he any more bathe his glowing brow in the bath of Thetis; the rainbow has ceased to be the messenger of the Gods, and hunger longer their awful voice, warning man of that which is to come. We have the sun which has been weighed and measured, but not understood; we have the assemblage of the planets, the congregation of the stars, and the yet unshackled ministration of the winds: - such is the list of our ignorance.”
― Mary Shelley

“Intention directs perception”
― Jaco Snoek

“Truth manifests itself to all logical people”
― Eric Holder

“Pure intellect without emotion is like a knife without a handle - does more damage than good.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hometown Human: To Live for Soil and Society

“It is far better to be an insane lover, than to be a heartless discoverer.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Gente Mente Adelante: Prejudice Conquered is World Conquered

“Google knows all the facts in the world, but that doesn’t make it a good person.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Earthquakin' Egalitarian: I Die Everyday So Your Children Can Live

“The striving fluency of the Hampstead nanny's boy is deceptive and occasionally plausible. With its cultural allusions and cross-references to other disciplines, it is the gab-gift of someone to whom English is an adoptive tongue. Intellect does terrible things to the mind.”
― John Osborne, Looking Back: Never Explain, Never Apologise

“Scotland's potential independent membership of the EEC may be important here. The tightening of our links with the Common Market could broaden our intellectual horizons to include Paris, Frankfurt and Milan, as well as Oxford and London (this would, of course, be a reforging of intellectual ties between Scotland and Continental Europe). In discovering these other traditions, we may be stimulated to rediscover our own, buried intellectualism. But without this European dimension, it may well be, Scotland will remain culturally chained to England, even if politically sovereign.”
― Ronald Turnbull, Cencrastus No. 3: Summer 1980

“I'd rather sit amongst illiterate villagers and actually talk about life, than sit amidst a bunch of intellectual morons and pretend to talk about life.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Martyr Meets World: To Solve The Hard Problem of Inhumanity

“[P]olitics devours all seriousness for really intellectual things”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“One ounce of love is more powerful than a hundred pounds of intellect.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Solo Standing on Guard: Life Before Law

“Pure intellect devoid of emotions and ethics is dangerous.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Generation Corazon: Nationalism is Terrorism

“If you are able to learn with reason at hand and warmth in heart then you'll start to see the foulness of the primitive fantasies, such as nationalism, fundamentalism, elitism, intellectualism, anti-intellectualism and so on.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Generation Corazon: Nationalism is Terrorism

“Substituting stoneage with concrete age is not advancement. Without warmth, logic of concrete is as degrading as the superstition of stone.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hometown Human: To Live for Soil and Society

“Hold a flashlight on the street and it brightens your way, but hold it smack right into your eyes and you see nothing - the same is with intellect - too much intellect takes away your humanity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hometown Human: To Live for Soil and Society

“Pure intellect without emotion is like a knife without a handle.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hometown Human: To Live for Soil and Society

“If you think four little alphabets, w-o-k-e, can define civilized human life, you are as dumb as those you consider un-woke. It is another way to codify righteousness, just like the church does with the term "born again". Be human my friend - beyond wokeness - beyond religiousness - beyond intellectualism and all forms of binarism and sectarianism.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Solo Standing on Guard: Life Before Law

“It is the heart that defines the beauty of a person, not the body or the brain.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Gente Mente Adelante: Prejudice Conquered is World Conquered

“People have a tendency to either fundamentalize things or philosophize things - those who fundamentalize things, boast about heritage, and those who philosophize things, boast about intellect. I say, neither heritage nor intellect is to be placed at the supreme altar of the human mind, instead what we must place in our mind's altar is people.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Gente Mente Adelante: Prejudice Conquered is World Conquered

“Love Alone Triumphs (The Sonnet)

Great people have often said,
Truth alone triumphs.
I am no great but a plain human,
So I say, love alone triumphs.
Truth may require intellect,
Inquiry requires some cynicism.
To be loving needs none of that,
Love lights up the darkest chasm.
Keep your intellect if you desire,
Explore further the arc of truth.
But all the discovery means nothing,
If countless souls go without food.
It is far better to be an insane lover,
Than to be a heartless discoverer.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Gente Mente Adelante: Prejudice Conquered is World Conquered

“They don't read, and they can't write to save their lives. They've never heard of most of the presidents of the United States, they think America won the war in Vietnam, they think Prohibition was a law that made it illegal to own slaves.

That was Cole's father, fuming about his students. Cole suspects at least some of this could also be said about Tracy.

And it's not just what they don't know, it's what they don't want to know.

Tracy is what his father would call intellectually lazy.”
― Sigrid Nunez, Salvation City

“Let us focus on virtues, instead of bickering over the definition of virtues.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Earthquakin' Egalitarian: I Die Everyday So Your Children Can Live

“Truth that takes away your humanity, is of no use.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Earthquakin' Egalitarian: I Die Everyday So Your Children Can Live

“We must aim towards truth, surely, but not at the expense of our humanity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Earthquakin' Egalitarian: I Die Everyday So Your Children Can Live

“We are the explorers of impossibility - we decide what is possible, not some tradition, constitution or factualization - not tradition, because traditions are habits of the past, and as such, are unqualified to dictate life of the present - not constitution, because that too is born of the past, and as such can never be taken as gospel - and not factualization, because a world run by facts alone may be suitable for the existence of cold, mechanical computers, but not warm and vulnerable human beings.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Earthquakin' Egalitarian: I Die Everyday So Your Children Can Live

“You are cultured not when you are learned, you are cultured when you learn that all separation between mind and mind is sheer primitiveness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Earthquakin' Egalitarian: I Die Everyday So Your Children Can Live

“Suits and boots are not sentience, Manners and etiquettes are not culture. Intellect and technology are not progress, Faith and tradition are not character.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Giants in Jeans: 100 Sonnets of United Earth

“Facts and faith all come later, beyond your bloody intellect, first be a humanizer.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Åžehit Sevda Society: Even in Death I Shall Live