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The world is rationally constructed, so reason can uncover its secrets.
- Leibniz
We tend to think that the world is rationally constructed because reason is our only tool to understand the world. I rather deeply suspect that the construction of the world is not based on reason but something else; so reason cannot uncover its secrets.
- Joshi
The senses deceive us, but reason reveals the truth.
- Parmenides of Elea
The senses deceive us as space is a virtual reality, and I suspect that reason is also a form of deception.
- Joshi
Man is a rational animal and I fear that it could be his ultimate philosophical tragedy.
- Joshi
We have to believe that there is no proof.
- Joshi
Change and motion and space and time are all in the mind.
- Zeno of Elea
Yes, and the mind is non - spatial.
- Joshi
Space is really non - spatial.
- Joshi
Capitalism is the most sophisticated form of barbarism.
- Joshi
Fear is the worst form of violence.
- Joshi
Freedom is a relative term. Absolutely it is impossible.
- Joshi
To be is to be a slave.
- Joshi
To be moral is to be irrational, because morality is relative, and in absolute terms it is absurd.
- Joshi
So far, an atheist is the one who cannot prove that God does not exist. Also he is the one who only disagrees with the conventional proofs / arguments for the existence of God.
- Joshi
If you want to meet a most narrow minded and orthodox person, go and find an ordinary scientist.
- Joshi
Even absence is present.
- Joshi
An actor is a person who has two presents which are not in agreement with each other.
- Joshi
Living is the greatest addiction.
- Joshi
The oldest and the youngest entity in the world is world itself.
- Joshi
The most uncertain and adventures form of science is called philosophy.
- Joshi
Language is a servant of thought. And sometimes the commands of the masters are too profound to obey.
- Joshi
The greatest wisdom lies in the deepest understanding of the universe.
- Joshi
Great things are often victims of harsh criticism. Philosophy is one of them.
- Joshi
No human society can be perfect or ideal mainly because its needs and capacities can never be in harmony.
- Joshi
A ( logical / conceptual ) paradox can exist only if reason is flawed.
- Joshi
I think the problem of creation of the universe involves a paradox which further implies that reason is flawed.
- Joshi
Representation of thought is always non - spatial. Thought cannot exist in a spatial form.
- Joshi
Writing is a thinker's way to perfection.
- Joshi
Perhaps nothing is ultimately true or false.
- Joshi
Everything knows something.
- Joshi
Life is a dream because space is a virtual reality.
- Joshi
The study of economics is equivalent to the study of structure of a system. Greater the structure greater the economics.
- Joshi
Man is a philosophical animal. ( I think somebody has said this before. )
- Joshi
A big industrial city, say London, and a small undeveloped village are both extremes, that sound me like an uncivilised barbaric place. The later is far backward in time while the former inhabits only machines. I rather prefer a golden mean, like Cambridge.
- Joshi
As Man tends to be developed he tends to be isolated. And that is his destiny.
- Joshi
Nature by its very nature is very brutal and partial, though Man has somehow managed to change the nature of its brutality and partiality.
- Joshi
The most reasonable definition of intelligence is a characteristic, let it be of any kind. This implies that to be is to be intelligent.
- Joshi
God does not play dice.
- Einstein
Only God can play dice. If he does or does not is itself a bit dicey.
- Joshi
Behind the apparent spatial things there are real non - spatial thoughts.
- Joshi
The essence of life is existence, conscious or unconscious, real or virtual.
- Joshi
Great minds invent, good minds criticise, and ordinary minds follow.
- Joshi
A genius is the one who arrives at a revolutionary thought, largely on his own.
- Joshi
My intellectual honesty is often misconstrued as my intellectual arrogance. I'm too honest to be arrogant.
- Joshi
World and life are nothing but two perspectives to look at the same thing.
- Joshi
I have not cleared up traditional philosophical doubts ( and I extremely doubt that any human ever can ). I've just systematically pointed out likelihoods.
- Joshi
Life when seen through common sense is often a sweet fairy tail. But when seen philosophically it is definitely a cold shivering tragedy. Common man often enjoys life but a philosopher definitely suffers.
- Joshi
The first step towards genuine progress is solitude.
- Joshi
The word philosophy, as it is distinguished from science, is misleading, as it means what philosophy contains is impossible to be a systematic body of knowledge, and what science contains is certain or proved.
- Joshi
What a tragedy ! Others cannot see what I see clearly. And I can do nothing to make them see what I see.
- Joshi
Justice is a myth. Or it is a limit which we may only tend to.
- Joshi
When Man is equally ( or more than equally ) concerned with the welfare of other Men capitalism will be replaced by communism. ( Until then any attempt to implement communism shall be futile and lead to some kind of capitalism. ) However, I don't see any realistic prospects for such a dramatic transformation in the nature of mankind.
- Joshi
Life is practically worth but philosophically pointless.
- Joshi
The phenomena which relativity theory is based upon do not at all imply that space and time are a unified and inseparable whole - the four - dimensional continuum of space - time. The thought that they are is a sheer misconstruction.
- Joshi
A scientist is usually remembered by his theories; a philosopher by his quotations.
- Joshi
The love of art is a conscious Man's best portrayal of his consciousness, for apart from consciousness art is useless.
- Joshi
I fear that Man chose the easiest but the worst option instead of the hardest but the best.
