Humanist Quotes

“I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years and years, but somehow I felt it was intellectually unrespectable to say one was an atheist, because it assumed knowledge that one didn't have. Somehow, it was better to say one was a humanist or an agnostic. I finally decided that I'm a creature of emotion as well as of reason. Emotionally, I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time.”
― Isaac Asimov

“I am a humanist, which means, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without expectations of rewards or punishments after I am dead.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“The human body resonates at the same frequency as Mother Earth. So instead of only focusing on trying to save the earth, which operates in congruence to our vibrations, I think it is more important to be one with each other. If you really want to remedy the earth, we have to mend mankind. And to unite mankind, we heal the Earth. That is the only way. Mother Earth will exist with or without us. Yet if she is sick, it is because mankind is sick and separated. And if our vibrations are bad, she reacts to it, as do all living creatures.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Don't take life so serious. It ain't nohow permanent.”
― Walt Kelly

“The human heart is too grand to be wasted in the gutter of cultural exclusivity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Making Britain Civilized: How to Gain Readmission to The Human Race

“Hand of human is the hand of god.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yarasistan: My Wounds, My Crown

“To unite, empathize, love and lift across fractures, is the one absolute virtue.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“We are all wounded,
looking for a bandaid -
some act like salt,
I choose to be ointment.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“Don't Be The Salt (Sonnet)

Wandering the earth as a monk scientist
I've understood one thing about converts -
people convert to christianity looking for bread,
people convert to hinduism looking for answers,
people convert to buddhism in search of freedom,
people convert to islam in order to heal -

it has nothing to do with god,
it has nothing to do with truth -
every person carries a secret wound,
religion we run to is the bandage that fits.

I am born of dust, and as I'm nearing to be dust again,
my tolerance of intolerance has become apocalyptic.
We are all wounded, looking for a bandaid -
some act like salt, I choose to be ointment.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“I don't think, I roar.
I don't write, I pour.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“I don't think, I roar.
I don't write, I pour.
I don't live, I combust,
so you may outgrow the shore.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“Cleansed of all newage gullibility,
immunized against organized bigotry,
neither vegetable nor animal,
cometh the call, cometh the tsunami.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“Cometh the call, cometh the tsunami.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“I too am a creationist - I am the creation, and the creator is me.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“I am the warfare (A Very Naskar Sonnet, 2698)
My brain is the planet's largest organic
manufacturing plant of multiculturalism,
so don't, I beg you, don't trigger me too much,

because once the hate crosses my threshold,
I won't hate you back, instead, I will inject
your language, your culture into my bloodstream,
and pour out literature at such a vast scale,
that before you know it, your offspring will
be studying my canon as their native heritage -

my human-centric divinity will be their divinity,
my life-centric culture will be their culture,
my service-centric science will be their science,
my earth-centric existence will be their existence.

I am the warfare, and the rewriting of civilization
started decades ago, when I made slave
out of the most tyrant language on earth.
Show me love, I'll respond with a quiet smile -
throw me hate, I'll metabolize it and rewrite your history.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Show me love, I’ll respond with a quiet smile – throw me hate, I’ll metabolize it and rewrite your history.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Your offspring will be studying my canon as their native heritage – my human-centric divinity will be their divinity, my life-centric culture will be their culture, my service-centric science will be their science, my earth-centric existence will be their existence.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Truth is relevant only in its subservience to life.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“The meaning of science is service, the meaning of faith is service, the meaning of office is service, if you forget this simple truth, your bible, koran, vedas - creation, evolution, constitution, all are useless.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“Naskar Goes to Earth (2745-2746)

I was born of flesh,
and given the name Naskar,
I outgrew the rule of flesh,
but kept the name as token.

Flesh and name are both just shell,
both have a role, but none is sovereign.
Submit to flesh, and monkeys run amok,
worship the name, and stagnation sets in.

I was born of ash,
I lived as electricity,
I'll end in ash, and someone
somewhere will carry my insanity.

I don't want you to inherit my belief,
I don't even want you to inherit my ideas,
if there is one thing I want you to inherit,
it's my insatiable responsibility to the world.

If you're sufficiently dutybound to humanity,
like a living, breathing human being should be,
you'd inadvertently develop the same ideas,
even if you haven't read a single leaf of me.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“I was born of ash, I lived as electricity, I'll end in ash, and someone somewhere will carry my insanity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“I don't want you to inherit my belief, I don't even want you to inherit my ideas, if there is one thing I want you to inherit, it's my insatiable responsibility to the world.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“If you cannot distinguish religion from fundamentalism, if you cannot distinguish spirituality from superstition, if you cannot distinguish science from insensitivity, if you cannot distinguish psychology from manipulation, do not call yourself human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“The divine is just human at full voltage.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“I'm not a school of thought,
I am thought come alive.
I'm not a philosophy of life,
I am life as philosophy.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“Naskaristana 2789

I arrived with a clever brain,
walked among clever apes,
studied history written by winners,
so I could earn some ape respect.

Then I got weary of all the hypocrisy,
idolizing morons as savior of humanity,
mistaking the lens for the landscape,
confusing privilege as social sanity -

frustrated I plunged into fire,
brain, vanity, esteem, the lot,
all reputation burnt to ashes,
what remain is unflinching humanity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“Educated on the streets, enlightened in the soil, my role on earth is to inject the brains with humanity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“There's a difference between Homo Sapiens and Human - Homo Sapiens is a meaningless technicality, Human is a lived promise.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“My spirituality has to do with equality, ethics and accountability, not aura, incense and vibration.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“How come information travels at the speed of light, but empathy travels slower than a sloth!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace