Rational Thinking Quotes

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Erik Pevernagie
“The vagaries of love with all its unpredictable and capricious meanders may be a hurdle in keeping life on an even keel. Rational thinking and irrational feeling don’t always get along very well. ( "Love as dizzy as a cathedral”)”
Erik Pevernagie

Abhijit Naskar
“Not everything illogical is superstition,
Not everything logical aids civilization.
Facts and fiction both have a place,
in civilizing the world for human race.
To know their place, first you gotta be human.”
Abhijit Naskar, Either Right or Human: 300 Limericks of Inclusion

Neal Asher
“Perhaps the possibility of me being eaten at any moment was interfering with my rationality.”
Neal Asher, Lockdown Tales

Abhijit Naskar
“Hoist your heart as beacon to the whole,
Stand your feet as anchor to ethics.
Speak your spine as wave of integrity,
Ride your brain as cure for prejudice.”
Abhijit Naskar, The Humanitarian Dictator

Abhijit Naskar
“Faith without common sense,
and intellect without sentiment,
are both equally dangerous.”
Abhijit Naskar, Either Right or Human: 300 Limericks of Inclusion

Abhijit Naskar
“Tell me you shall stand up to injustice 'n prejudice, and embrace scientific evidence without resistance, and I shall retire tomorrow - in peaceful contentment.”
Abhijit Naskar, Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn

Abhijit Naskar
“Charge up your mind with facts and reason,
Charge up your heart with love and vision.
Backbone alive repels cowardly inaction,
Even if peddled by thousand year tradition.”
Abhijit Naskar, Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch

Abhijit Naskar
“We mustn't go back to living in caves by compromising all rationality, but at the same time, we mustn't practice rationality to such an extreme that we kill the very warmth of the human spirit.”
Abhijit Naskar, I Vicdansaadet Speaking: No Rest Till The World is Lifted

Abhijit Naskar
“You gotta surpass your intellect and belief, if you want to stand as healer and peacemaker.”
Abhijit Naskar, Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It's All One

Abhijit Naskar
“We don’t need to build a world of faith,
We don’t need to build a world of logic.
We just need to build a world human enough,
To place without prejudice, all faith and logic.”
Abhijit Naskar, Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It's All One

Abhijit Naskar
“There is nothing supernatural about visions - or to be more accurate, contrary to traditional belief, it's not messages from some extraterrestrial domain. Visions are indeed messages from a mysterious realm alright, but like the everyday realm of human perception, the transcendental realm as well is creation of brain chemicals. I won't go into details here, as I already did that in my early days. One of my earliest works, Autobiography of God, contains a detailed analytical account of the neurobiology of transcendental experiences. However, the question is not whether there is an explanation, the question is, is it worth explaining! Because, while sometimes the lack of explanation facilitates superstition, some things are better left unexplained - such as, love.”
Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

Lawrence Sanders
“- My brain tells me this is nothing. But my blood wants it. I am sorry.
-Why be sorry? You think this is a good thing to be all brain and no blood? It is as bad as being all blood and no brain. The right mixture - that is what is important.”
Lawrence Sanders, The Anderson Tapes

“By controlling our wants and emotions at the top of the upside-down pyramid, we can avoid the trap at the bottom.”
Scott Shumway, The Invisible Four-letter Word: The Secret to Getting What You Really Want in Life.

Abhijit Naskar
“Heart alive knows the worth of brain,
Hence, it never undermines reason.
Sometimes reason must take a backseat,
that doesn't make it redundant.”
Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

Abhijit Naskar
“Defend principle, not prejudice.
Support reformation, not rigidity.
Be responsible, not reckless.
Support correction, not conformity.”
Abhijit Naskar, Yüz Şiirlerin Yüzüğü (Ring of 100 Poems, Bilingual Edition): 100 Turkish Poems with Translations

Abhijit Naskar
“Rationality bends under pressure,
Thought bends under pressure,
Intelligence bends under pressure -
Only love is crazy enough to stand unbent,
even under pressure of cataclysmic proportion.”
Abhijit Naskar, Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn

Abhijit Naskar
“Tierratitan, Sonnet

I only have one advice for you,
own your life, from head to toe -
unapologetically alive and original,
not a carbon copy, with second hand woe.

Civilization is not a conjuring trick,
Civilization is a long labor of life.
You don't figure out everything overnight,
You figure out things over time.

Sweet dreams are made of sweat-n-dare.
Sweat makes it sweet, dare brings it true.
Sweet society is made of reason-n-care,
When I'm your shelter, my shelter is you.

I be your vision, you be my mission.
Divided we drown, together, Tierratitan.”
Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

Abhijit Naskar
“I only have one advice for you, own your life, from head to toe - unapologetically alive and original, not a carbon copy, with second hand woe.”
Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

Abhijit Naskar
“All in The Mind (The Sonnet)

God is all in the mind,
What's wrong with that!
Art is also all in the mind,
So, is art nothing but dirt!

Yes, plenty harm has been done,
In the name of God.
The same can be said,
About science and art.

Dividers will always divide,
Haters will always hate.
Apes will find one excuse or another,
To justify their authoritarian trait.

For example, 9/11 wasn't religion's fault,
Any more than Hiroshima was science's fault.”
Abhijit Naskar, Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission

Abhijit Naskar
“Prejudice is sense of the caves, reason is sense of civilization.”
Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

Abhijit Naskar
“What is Truth (The Sonnet)

There is not one but two truths,
truth of facts and truth of good.
Truth of facts is worth the honor,
when it serves the truth of good.

Truth of facts thrives on logic,
an effective antidote to prejudice.
Where it sucks the sweetness of life,
truth of facts is carrier of malice.

Truth of facts is carrier of logic,
Truth of good is carrier of life.
Often times they cohabit the mind,
sometimes facts only undermine life.

Pride of truth is the good it does,
without which all facts are futile.
Truth of good is truth absolute,
absence of heart makes logic vile.”
Abhijit Naskar, Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations

Abhijit Naskar
“There is not one but two truths,
truth of facts and truth of good.
Truth of facts is worth the honor,
when it serves the truth of good.

Pride of truth is the good it does,
without which all facts are futile.
Truth of good is truth absolute,
absence of heart makes logic vile.”
Abhijit Naskar, Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations

Abhijit Naskar
“Education is not
western or eastern -
no matter the geography,
education is education.

It must call out superstition
and prejudice wherever it festers,
just like it must call out
cold intellectual arrogance.”
Abhijit Naskar, The Humanitarian Dictator

Kenneth R. Miller
“Evolution really does tell us something deep and profound about the world in which we live—something that Darwin glimpsed but that is much more obvious today. As it turns out, there really is a design to life, but it’s not the clumsy, interventionist one in which life is an artificial injection into nature, a contradiction of its physical laws. Rather, it is a design in which life emerges from the laws of the universe around us. That conclusion is unavoidable, robust, and scientific. The elegant universe is a universe of life. And the name of the grand design of life is evolution.”
Kenneth R. Miller, Only a Theory: Evolution and the Battle for America's Soul

“Sometimes life compels you to be rational, especially since you can’t always listen to your heart.”
Ekamjit Ghuman, Train to Mumbai

Abhijit Naskar
“Where prejudice is the way of life, voice of reason sounds like act of terror.”
Abhijit Naskar, The Divine Refugee

Abhijit Naskar
“Just as there is such a thing as blinded by light, there is such a thing as blinded by reason. Just as there is such a thing as poisoned by oxygen, there is such a thing as poisoned by belief.”
Abhijit Naskar, Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim

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