{"quotes":[{"text":"The Self, when finite, is Human and when infinite, is God.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["advaita-vedanta","brainy","consciousness-mind-brain","consciousness","divine-self","god","inspiring","life","life-lessons","meditation","mindfulness","non-duality","nondual-philosophy","philosophy-of-science","religion","religion-and-science","self","self-knowledge","truth"],"id":29852,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"Quite surprisingly the majority of religious and spiritual practices actually diminishes your brain’s ability to act out of rage and fear.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["faith","inspirational","inspirational","motivational","motivational","neurobiology","neurotheology","pearls-of-wisdom","religion","religion-and-science","religious-faith","religious-rituals","science-of-happiness","spiritual-health","spiritual","spirituality","wise","wise-sayings"],"id":35487,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"Science and Truth are simple phenomenon of nature, but it is the known that is preventing us from mastering the unknown.","author":"Chandrakanth Natekar","tags":["creativity","parapsychology","psychology","religion-and-science","spirituality","spontaneity"],"id":44963,"author_id":"Chandrakanth+Natekar"},{"text":"Good and evil are both within us. And when our primitive ancestors humanized these natural qualities of the mind, they got two completely opposite supernatural characters. One was the merciful lord almighty and the other was the wicked devil.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["aboriginal-culture","ancient-culture","brainy","brainy-life-lessons","evolution","evolutionary-biology","evolutionary-psychology","life","pearls-of-wisdom","primitive-human-behavior","primitive-men","primitive-psyche","primitive-religion","primitive-urges","religion-and-science","religious","social-psychology","truth","truth"],"id":60767,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"Real atheist is not the one that does not believe in an imaginary big monkey, but the one that gives the imagination more importance than the reality.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["atheist","atheist","atheists","brainy","reasoning","religion","religion-and-science","truth"],"id":115358,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"Ignorance is hardly unusual, Miss Davar. The longer I live, the more I come to realize that it is the natural state of the human mind. There are many who will strive to defend its sanctity and then expect you to be impressed with their efforts.","author":"Brandon Sanderson","tags":["human-mind","ignorance","mind","religion-and-science","religion-vs-science","science","science-and-religion","science-vs-religion","wisdom"],"id":144801,"author_id":"Brandon+Sanderson"},{"text":"If you don’t act now, the day is not far, that this beautiful planet of yours, which you call home, shall be turned into a dry barren wasteland by the blood-sucking fundamentalists.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["free-thinking","fundamentalism","inspiration","inspirational","inspiring","inspiring","rational-thinking","religion-and-science","religion-philosophy","religious-extremism","religious-violence"],"id":147046,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"Gökalp gave 'the nation' an important mystical component. In his work, 'he transferred to the nation the divine qualities he had found in society, replacing the belief in God with the belief in nation: and so nationalism became a religion.' The national is deified, thus expanding Durkheim's idea that 'society can do as it pleases.' So, if a nation perceives itself in danger, it feels no moral responsibility in its response to that danger. The Unionist 'scientific approach' gained a 'sacred' character through Gökalp's theories.","author":"Taner Akçam","tags":["armenian-genocide","nationalism","patriotism","religion-and-science","turkish-"],"id":150011,"author_id":"Taner+Ak%C3%A7am"},{"text":"Blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly the same always and every where, could produce no variety of things. All that diversity of natural things which we find suited to different times and places could arise from nothing but the ideas and will of a Being, necessarily existing.","author":"Isaac Newton","tags":["darwinism","evolution","id","intelligent-design","macroevolution","naturalism","religion-and-science","science","science-and-religion"],"id":156053,"author_id":"Isaac+Newton"},{"text":"As Karl Marx once noted: 'Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.' William Jennings Bryan and the Scopes trial was a tragedy. The creationists and intelligent design theorists are a farce.","author":"Michael Shermer","tags":["biology","creationists","evolution","facts","farce","g-w-hegel","hegel","history","intelligent-design","john-scopes","john-t-scopes","karl-marx","marx","philosophy","pseudoscience","religion-and-science","science","scopes-monkey-trial","scopes-trial","superstition","theory","tragedy"],"id":224132,"author_id":"Michael+Shermer"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":35,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}