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

“No hay raza superior señores. No hay pueblo elegido de Dios. No lo es ni Estados Unidos ni Israel. Ignorantes fundamentalistas de extrema derecha piensan así.”
― Gustavo Petro

“You are Wardenclyffe, you are Nalanda, you're the source and sink of civilization.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“Generation Understanding (Sonnet 2480)

No matter what the apes want you to believe,

it's not weakness to abandon suspicion,
it's not weakness to discard judgment,
it's not weakness to practice empathy,
it's not weakness to be considerate -

it's not misdemeanor to denounce primitive
practices that our ancestors thought sensible,
it's a sign of wisdom, not stupidity, to admit
ignorance, rather than succumb to supernatural.

My favorite answer of all is, 'I don't know' -
in the absence of rigorous investigation
that's the answer I fall back on the most;

then there are times when logic is immaterial,
there I avoid all mention of knowledge, and
take the humane course, despite reason or ritual.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“No hero, no charlatan saint,
no prophet out to herd a flock;
unhinged in duty, an unflinching flame,
I'm just a signpost on the cosmic clock.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“What good is ape tradition and validation, when time is my home, integration, my reality!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“More than facts, understanding is the best reason.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“By The Time I'm Finished (Sonnet 2601)

Belief matters less
where people matter more.
Time matters less
when life matters more.

Scientific truth changes with data,
spiritual truth changes with era,
cultural truth changes with civilization,
but to unite, empathize, love and lift
across fractures, is the one absolute virtue.

By the time I'm finished with science,
science would be more service centered
than religion.

By the time I'm finished with religion,
religion would be more allergic
to superstition and prejudice than science.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Belief matters less where people matter more.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“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