Superultramodern / Joshian Quotes and Dialogues 2

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.

- Joshi



- Dr Kedar Joshi, BSc MA DSc DA, PBSSI

Cambridge, UK.