09/15/2011
Some truth is so ugly that even if you understand it you have to play ignorant, if you wish others to have meaningful relationships with you.
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09/14/2011
There's trade-off between fulfillment of one's sophisticated human needs and one's needs as an animal. And all suffering is due to this eternal, unsolvable conflict.
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09/14/2011
Biological fact: Girls fall for guys with high testosterone (sexually bold, outspoken, flirts, for example) [animal instinct]. And then they want their guy to be honest and sincere and the relationship to last forever [human need]. Ah, what a painful joke!
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09/13/2011
Having a "complete", happy family can be one of the greatest achievements of human life.
— thought after watching Tokyo Story
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09/12/2011
If you do not believe in God, you can't afford the luxury of having unrealistic expectations from life. For then when you get hit, "Daddy" isn't around to comfort you.
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09/07/2011
Marriage seems to have become outmoded in today's melieu. After a few generations humans will have evolved to be comfortable without the security of marriage and family. Or so we hope.
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09/04/2011
If one is incapable of living a normal life, enjoying things that an average human being enjoys, because one has "some knowledge", then that knowledge, I say, is a disease.
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09/01/2011
Best solutions to life's most intricate problems lie in following your intuitions.
Rationality versus intuitions
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09/01/2011
Do not hunt for love. And when it finds you at the most unexpected time, do not turn your back on it.
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08/29/2011
Marriage is the best solution available to the human condition. For it provides everything humans crave; from sex to security to meaning in life.
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08/25/2011
True love, unlike romantic love, comes at a huge psychological cost of defying the Universe (natural forces) for greater ''human goals'' (family and life-long companionship). Only the best and the greatest human beings can achieve it.
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08/25/2011
Proponents of Humanism (in place of Religion) seem to assume the masses to be highly intelligent. Religion provides a single moral center of gravity (which is essential for social order) which i doubt any other God-less system can achieve.
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08/25/2011
There's a thrill even in gazing at the sky. Why people have to go skydiving to feel ''life'' is beyond me. I doubt the claim that it removes the fear of death and enables one ''live more'' after that experience. That sounds like a new age bullshit.
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08/25/2011
Money can't buy happiness. But a rich man can at least do charity and derive happiness thus. A poor man can't even do that. Money matters.
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08/25/2011
Advisably, one should not make any important decision of life when under the effect of (romantic) love. The tragedy is, we are tempted by nature to make the most important decision of life in that state.
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08/04/2011
Coming to terms with imperfection of the existence is the highest wisdom, and the pinnacle of self-development.
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07/30/2011
Ignorance per se is not bliss. He who said "ignorance is bliss" himself must have been a very knowledgeable person.
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07/18/2011
Craving for human attention and companionship is fundamental to us. He who doesn't have it is hardly living.
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07/18/2011
There's no better remedy to human suffering than empathy and compassion. Love is the only answer.
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06/28/2011
Everyone who's living by intuition is living with double standards (just like Nature itself). When one becomes "aware" of it, and tries to become "perfect", that's where one blunders. Imperfection is Nature.
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06/26/2011
The only difference between a spiritually developed person and an ignorant person is of the underlying awareness; and not necessarily of actions.
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06/26/2011
Only outward seeking (without exploring one's inner terrain) is an invitation to tragedy.
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06/26/2011
Not knowing is a misery; knowing too much is another kind of misery. To seek or not to seek, that is the question; the question you answer, and there you have erred.
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06/23/2011
Just because someone doesn't agree with your views, that doesn't make him/her less right; because right and wrong are only floating concepts, and don't exist in absolute sense.
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06/21/2011
Without connecting with another human being happiness is impossible; and without happiness life isn't justified. Hence, dissociation from human world is essentially "not living".
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06/20/2011
Life is by default suffering. Those who don't understand it cry; those who understand and accept it can but laugh.
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06/18/2011
Pure rationality (reductionism) is a dead-end. Even believing in God is preferable to that.
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06/16/2011
If you are into writing business, you can't afford intellectual laziness; unless you are writing jokes.
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06/14/2011
The people who don't have the capacity to become a govt must not have the power to break the existing one.
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06/11/2011
The quest for perfection isn't futile just because perfection as one conceives it doesn't exist. Only he who seeks perfection on the first place can truly understand that it is not, and thereby come to terms with imperfection – which in a way is real perfection.
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06/11/2011
There is some pleasure in doing things others tell you you can't; but just others telling you you can't is not a reason enough to do those things. Be wise to know what you really want.
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06/10/2011
When you are doing something that other people wish to do but can't, they will come finding faults with your ways; because they need to feel good about themselves somehow.
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06/04/2011
Emotions are no doubt important. But an intellectually blunt person is unlikely to have a lasting relationship, much less a happy marriage.
[The one who doesn't understand this^ may consider himself intellectually blunt.]
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05/27/2011
A person should be intelligent enough to form his principles and wise enough to know they can be broken at times.
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05/24/2011
Every thinker is not necessarily wise; but every wise man is essentially a thinker.
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05/24/2011
Not all thinkers meet with wisdom; that doesn't mean thinking is useless. Wisdom is essentially a product of critical thinking.
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05/19/2011
Only two types of people can live a healthy life. Those who are perfectly ignorant, and those who are perfectly aware. Both are rare.
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05/15/2011
To live life and not understand it is more healthy than to understand life and not live it, but less healthy than to understand and live life.
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05/06/2011
Happiness is important to MAKE life worth living. And contentment is important to KEEP life worth living. Former is the function of emotions, while the latter is the function of intelligence. Both emotions and intelligence are equally important for a good life.
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05/03/2011
Human consciousness is a curse because it is being driven by two unavoidable forces, biological impulses and reason, which are eternally in conflict with each other.
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04/26/2011
Unpredictable as life is, making promises and commitments is a naive business. The only promise a matured person can make is: I will do the best I can.
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04/26/2011
In the (seemingly) hostile and violent universe the biggest curse on humans is their consciousness, and the greatest gift to them is their ability to think and reason. Everyone who has the curse has to use the gift to the best. That's the only possible redemption.
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