तत्त्वज्ञान

अहिंसा म्हणजे काय?
अहिंसावादी म्हणजे काय?

हे प्रश्न मला आजकाल पडले आहेत. "मी अहिंसावादी आहे" असे जेंव्हा कोणी म्हणतो तेंव्हा त्याला नक्की काय अभिप्रेत असते हे मला अजुनही कळत नाही त्यामूळे हा प्रपंच.

'Certainty is freedom.....' म्हणजेच 'खात्रीत स्वातंत्र्य आहे...'

'पुढील १०० वर्ष व्यवस्थित रहाता येईल अशी माझी खात्री झाली की मी स्वतःला सुरक्षित मानील्'...... नंदन निलेकणी

Thou shalt leave valuable contributions for future generations.
- 5th commandment of the Ethical atheist fromhttp://www.ethicalatheist.com/docs/ten_commandments.html

Recognize the fly, even love it if you want, but don't marry it.
-Natalie Goldberg, in Writing down the Bones

Natalie is describing how a writer, in a restaurant scene, can mention a fly, even the particular sandwich it walks over, name its species, but if she digresses too much in discussing the patterns of its wings and a mathematical discussion of its trajectory and such details unconnected to the scene where the reader is expecting the waiter to arrive or something else related to happen, how it can be a put-off.

He was a proud man, with that peculiar pride, not of achievement, not the pride of the well-born or of the rich, but the pride of an ancient race, of the representative of an ancient tradition and system of thought and morality which, actually, had nothing whatever to do with what he really was.
-J Krishnamurti, in The only revolution

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
-Terry Pratchett

Discworld fame Terry Pratchett is one of my favorite authors. Not all his books are equally funny, but some are amazing with insights and humour thoroughly mixed to great effect. "Truth" is by far one of the best I like.

The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny; flattery to treachery; standing armies to arbitrary government; and the glory of God to the temporal interest of the clergy.
-David Hume (1711-1776)