My Quotations

By: Kedar Joshi

In the midst of excitement, grief, joy, and solitude, I remind myself every moment that the sole mission of my life is to find the questioner – that unimaginable who has put me in this madness to answer an unanswerable question.

My intense drive to solve the universal question makes me happy to sacrifice my urge to seek revenge on the universal questioner.

My life would change – or may even be destroyed – if God simply looses His memory.

Einstein sounds so stupid when he delves into the mysteries in quantum mechanics.

Morality is not Truth; it is Non-Spatial Feeling.

This vice called selfishness is rather a great force to do great things.

What the theory of evolution has in store for a man – a solipsist – who rather disbelieves in the existence of all (earthly) life besides his own! In fact, what space is for a non-spatial mentalist is what evolution is for a solipsist – an illusion.

I don’t think that one can be a good metaphysicist without a fair amount of belief in astrology.

Genius is the ability to see the self-evident where the rest of the world turns blind.

Whether life is fair or unfair depends on whether it is singular or plural – If it were singular it may perhaps be fair, but if it were plural I am convinced it is terribly unfair.

Religions are blasphemous to the intellect.

Mystery lets itself known through existence and defines itself through design in existence.

The profundity of the philosophy of life is equal to the simplicity of the physics of the universe.

The universal art is explored, yet the artist is unfound.

Reason is ‘understanding’.

Meditation is the best engineering.

History is a story of illusions.

I – a philosopher – live in the cage of flesh and blood.

The world has a profound moral meaninglessness.

Morality has a profound meaninglessness.

Love, grief, joy, envy, anger are all mere feelings – states of consciousness. They have no objective truth or eternal being. Such they are very trivial. Yet ‘they exist’ is so profound, so deep – a sheer miracle.

Pain is miserable, not the one who experiences it – for ‘the one who experiences it’ is a mere abstraction.

I am a mere abstraction.

Socrates and I know nothing. All the other fools, however, have known a great deal.

God is the only existence that is formless.

The profoundest existence is formless.

The greatest mystery is that the profoundest existence is formless.

Reality is spatially nothing.

What I was taught to be real has now turned out to be virtual and what I would have thought to be virtual has now appeared to be real.

Passion thrills me to be moral for the sake of morality and philosophy teaches me to be moral for the sake of immorality.

I wish God were a meliorist.

The necessity to make money is the worst of all modern evils.

No one would deride a moralist as scornfully as a solipsist.

It takes solipsism to truly deride moralism.

Truth – the next illusion; existence – the ultimate.

Pain is a poison; pleasure an intoxicant.

In the absence of all reasons it is the universal doubt that makes me believe in something.

There is always a reason to believe in a proposition.

There is always a reason to believe.

That ‘space is real’ is, I think, the most widespread foolish belief.

Life is mysterious from the very beginning – the existence – to the great end – the formless questioner. Things in the middle opt for understanding and demystification.

There is no fundamental difference between being a victim of others’ mistakes and that of being of one’s own, for this one’s own is other to oneself.

My mind is solipsistic and my heart is moralistic.

I am a solipsist by mind and a moralist by heart.

Spatiality is the virtuality of existence; non-spatiality the reality.

In future the computer to be programmed would be non-spatial universal and the programmer would be a superultramodern yogi.

I am looking for a superultramodern yogi to redesign the universe.

God is beyond truth except the truth that He is beyond truth.

God is beyond all other truths.

I love humanity the way I love animation.

Knowledge combined with wisdom is divine – for it is not human to have knowledge with wisdom.

The doubter is stronger than the certain, provided both of them are humans.

Questioning is God’s religion.

God's religion is to question.

Morality is a divine quality immorally expected of humanity. Humanity is alive not because of morality but because of selfish passions, desires, and actions.

Law is the soundest and the most well grounded moral semblance of immorality.

I find something strange about myself. I have an immense passion to uncover the order in the universe and at the same time I am inclined to create disorder in the world. I have a deep reverence for the universal laws and on the other hand I have little respect, if at all, for the manmade laws.

I am not really interested in changing the world; I am interested in changing the universe.

Life is a war waged on God. Man may win this war but then God would write the victory.

Virtue spectates grief; vice spectates gratification.

Good men are inclined to see suffering; bad men are disposed to find happiness.

Virtue is foolish in the eyes of vice.

Humanity meets divinity at the point of philosophy.

Philosophy is a process which starts at the thing the philosopher is the most acquainted with and ends at the thing he is, and could ever be, the least knowledgeable about.

Here each and every one of us is Christ who suffers for divine madness.

Every human is Jesus who suffers and dies – unknowingly – for the divine madness.

The universe is written on non-spatial feelings in a non-understandable language.

Man is a demon who is struggling to be God.

I wake up and feel how beautiful I had a dream; I die and I think what a dream life has been.

A quarter of a lifetime of suffering and misery has inspired the philosopher within me. Then, if, at this very moment, I am enticed to believe that a suffering of thousands of lifetimes would help me initiate some profound philosophy I would sacrifice the entire joy of the rest of my life to quench the philosopher with that very philosophy.

Life is freedom; death is freedom from freedom.

Politics is humanity in business.

I am not a humanist because I am a human.

Passion is the soul of youth.

Life is signified by pleasure and dignified by pain.

Life is signified by pleasure and pleasure is dignified by pain.

My best friend is my love for myself.

Wise knowledge is divine.

God’s sole immortal child is Truth.

The first step towards happiness is the power to endure pain and the second, and the last one, is to annihilate pain.

Action is leisure amid thought.

God manifests himself through universal design, which, in turn, manifests itself through consciousness -every day, every hour, every moment.

God is the point where human reason breaks down.

Passion is romantic greed; ambition is passionate greed.

All that is regarded as knowledge is nothing but a realm of probable speculations.

Life is an unfortunate process that consolidates ego and consequently intensifies pain.

Morality is a fantasy. Reality can never be moral. All real happenings are products of self-interest. Even an intense urge to be moral is, in fact, a remedy to quench some deep thirst of the ego.

Solitude is unquenched ego.

The universe is a result of divine vanity.

The worst unhappiness is unhappiness unhappy for unhappiness.

God is the context of the universe – the context unknown.

The most painful childhood is raised without recreation, the most unhappy youth is lived without love, the most lamentable manhood is spent without success, and the most grievous old age is passed without support.

I am punished with solitude to be a philosopher.

God punished me with solitude to make me a philosopher.

There is one brilliant mind but many benevolent hearts.

The sole meaning of life is to find the universal questioner.

I know not that I know nothing.

Small things have small immunities; big things have big vulnerabilities.

Envy is to humanity what cancer is to human body.

Envy is the worst disease to humanity.

Humanity is an internal-combustion engine.