Abhijit Naskar Quotes

The ultimate goal of humanity is knowledge.

~ Abhijit Naskar

A smart person speaks out the truth. A wise person doesn't care about speaking it out, as much as he or she cares about utilizing that truth in the society, in a way that brings most progress, in a way that brings most human development. And that's the purpose atheism should have.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Smartness without wisdom is stupidity.

~ Abhijit Naskar

I am an advocate of godliness, not of god.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Nature deemed God worthy and hence chose it as her slave to serve the humans appearing as the master.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Hard as it may sound, no god has saved anything or anyone in human history. It is the humans who have done so.

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My mission is to make the external God of human society obsolete in front of humanity’s internal Godliness.

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I never attempt to take away people’s God from them, because that God is associated with a lot of human sentiments in the human psyche that act as fuel in daily survival. If you try to take away some hungry man’s stale bread, he would fight back, but if you give him something healthier and more substantial than the bread, then he would throw away the bread himself and accept your better food. The same is for God.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Without attachment, a naked body is merely a lifeless sex-toy.

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As a species, wise, harmonious progress is our mission.

~ Abhijit Naskar

I am pain stricken to say that, various “educational” institutions have adopted the medieval doctrine fear of the lord is the beginning of wisdom as their motto. Let me tell you this, fear of the Lord, Santa Claus, Krishna, Thor, Hulk or any other imaginary being brings merely the illusion of wisdom, not wisdom. And illusion of wisdom is a billion times more harmful than lack of wisdom.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Mystics reign where lacks true education.

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I am a scientist, and as such I am proud to say that being stupid at times is a very human thing. Be proud to be stupid, be proud to be fool. Being a fool is a billion times better than being blinded by the illusion of intellect. I admit I am a fool, but at the very least, with each passing day I do my best to get lesser fool.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Being a fool is a billion times better than being blinded by the illusion of intellect.

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Keep in mind my friend, if an answer is not rational, then it is not an answer, but a delusion.

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If you are financially affluent, think of adopting a kid and raise him or her right next to your biological offspring. And let your love become the proof of your parenthood, instead of your DNA.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Failures make character, not success.

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When you are wise, peace shall follow.

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Use filmmaking to eliminate racism – use to it terminate misogyny – use it to destroy homophobia and all other primitiveness.

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The art of filmmaking is the most influential form of art that has ever existed throughout the history of human artistic endeavors.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Filmmaking has the power to fortify the feeble, unify the divided, raise the abandoned and inspire the ignorant.

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A movie is not a movie, it is a potential nuclear furnace of inspiration, courage and conscience.

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Make movies my friend – make nice, inspiring and bold movies that will penetrate the darkest corners of the human mind and illuminate the soul.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Give people films, they will forget after a few weeks, but give people ideas, they will assimilate them into their consciousness.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Make films that purify the soul with the flow of rational, vigorous and compassionate thinking.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Use filmmaking for a greater purpose, than to just entertain some drowsy minds. Wake the whole world up with your movies. It has been sleeping for long. Its eternal sleep has become its darkest nemesis. Now is the time to wake it up.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Take the clapper and become the alarm that the world so desperately needs.

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Whatever genre you deem suitable for your taste – romance, comedy, action, mystery, sci-fi or anything else, make sure it has the plain everyday human kindness.

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Religion without reason is merely an illusion of religion – it is a mockery of religion, like it has become today.

~ Abhijit Naskar

When the mind is without fear and prejudice, and the head is held high with the strength of reasoning, then only the brightest rays of religion can penetrate the darkest corners of the human society.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Arise, my friend – the world is wailing for kindness – it is wailing for compassion – it is wailing for love.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Civilized are not those who never make mistakes – civilized are those who learn from their mistakes instead of trying to justify them.

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The more we humanize the society, the more we will become humans.

~ Abhijit Naskar

What is the point of being humans, if our actions scream with more bestiality than humanity!

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Humanity is not a word my friend. It is a symbol – a symbol of hope – a symbol of wisdom – yet this very symbol has become disgraced by our faults and deluded justification of mistakes.

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Sin, blasphemy, heresy – all these are primitive ideas created by primitive creatures, unworthy of the title “human”.

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Shallow intellect is worse than ignorance. Ignorance can be treated with knowledge, but shallow intellect, that is illusion of knowledge, is untreatable and quite dangerous to the progress and wellbeing of humanity.

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Start small and keep going.

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The black, the white, the brown, the red, the yellow, the hetero, the homo, the trans, the poor, the rich, the literate, the illiterate, the weak, the strong – all are my sisters and brothers. My life is their life. And till the last breath in my body, I shall be serving you all with all the power in my veins. And beyond death, my ideas shall be serving you for eternity.

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I am the thread of unification that goes through humans of all religions, cultures and ideologies while reinforcing their innate sense of one humanity.

~ Abhijit Naskar