Aşkoholic Quotes

“Streets are my school,
mountains are my tutor.
The sky is my flag,
soil is my mother.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“Till a “white man” climbs the Everest, do the Himalayas really exist!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“Zionism is racism - Colonialism is cannibalism - Nationalism is terrorism.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“In the garden of love the gardener is the flower.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“A caterpillar doesn't just grow wings to become a butterfly, its entire anatomy gets reorganized, from a crawling insect to a flying wonder, including its neural pathways, the same must happen to the tribal ape, to become a civilized human. Creation is the aftermath of combustion, enlightenment is the aftermath of annihilation.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“Dervish in the monastery,
sanyasi in the dargah,
or is it the other way around -
language is a paradoxical obstacle to love.

I speak of one love, yet I have to translate
it in a million languages to make billions
realize that I speak of the same thing.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“Dervish in the monastery,
sanyasi in the dargah,
or is it the other way around -
language is a paradoxical obstacle to love.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“Some chained to the doctrine,
and some chained to equation.
All fight over garments,
and none cares for a human.

What good is a knife that is
all blade, and no handle!
What good is a brain that is
devoid of compassion!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“Machines without electricity are scrap,
electricity without machine is air.
Heart without head is fragile flesh,
head without heart is just hook for your hair.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“Moral questions can't be solved by empirical answers, nor by mythology. Puzzle of life is solved by the living, not by clever machines or by antique fossils.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“Those who can't create anything original with their life, spend their time policing those who do. Either do something original, or support those who do, don't spout filth, otherwise you only prove your own incompetence.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“Do not confuse apathy for maturity, do not confuse cunning for consciousness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“How to use social media safely?
Post ZERO family photos online.

How to use ai honorably?
Use ai as assistant, not ghostwriter.

How to use a smartphone mindfully?
Turn off all non-essential notifications.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“That's why I've come, to drag spirituality down into the soil, and science down onto the streets - tea cup in one hand, cheeseburger in another, I have come, not to start a new religion, but to carry the rivers to the sea.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“Celebrate people for their existence, and credit institutions for what they can achieve, rather than celebrating institutions for their antiquity, while judging people by what they can accomplish.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“Are humans fundamentally good or evil? Conditioned for evil, capable of good, all it comes down to is choice.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“Neither a religion of domesticated livestock, nor of hungry predators, the religion of the future is going to be centered on love, tempered by reason, powered by backbone, with zero dependency on mythology, otherwise, there is no future.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“Psychoanalysis of AI Monkeys (Naskaristana 3127-3128)

You think ai companies care about creativity or progress, let alone humanity! It's all about money and power, it's always about money and power - the only reason they're pouring trillions of dollars down ai is because they're out to suck the world dry of human employees, diverting all those salaries into their own pockets, so that a handful of technocrats could execute the biggest economic heist in human history, all in the name of innovation.

But guess what, these ai monkeys do not know one thing, humankind are an extremely resilient species, with creativity unfathomable by tech twits - destroy ten jobs today, five new jobs will be invented tomorrow, that too, not by psychiatrically certifiable corporations, but by everyday ordinary people, who just want to give a good life to their family, while also looking out for fellow human beings, a concept alien to human-looking, carbon-based, metal-minded morons.

So next time you see an ai monkey, walk up to them, and offer them a flower, and probably buy them a few therapy sessions, to help them get acclimatized to the human race”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“Either your history is indigenous centered or your history is meticulously crafted monkey mythology, crafted by cunning monkeys, to manufacture docile sheep, never to make them realize, that the hunters are the transgressors, while the world belongs to the lions first. Sure, the world belongs to all, but not until, every stolen dignity, stolen honor, stolen dream, stolen childhood, motherhood, parenthood, are made amends for first, not monetarily but mentally.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“Binary thinking is the malfunction in the fabric of reality. Binary thinking is the real hard problem of consciousness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“Silence sings me secrets,
night endows me sight.
When everywhere is pitch dark,
my wounds overflow with light”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“You know what the favorite word of a fascist is? Freedom. You know what the favorite word of a fanatic is? Tradition.

You know what the favorite word of the superstitious is? Enlightenment. You know what the favorite word of a conspiracy theorist is? Truth”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“If my freedom comes at the expense of another's exploitation, I don't want it. If my culture comes at the cost of another's erasure, I don't want it.

If my rationality revels in destroying people's religion, I don't want it. If my religion demands the conversion of all others, I don't want it.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“As you grow older your ambitions shrink, and that's a good thing, more and more you find bliss in the little things, that's a healthy closure of a life well lived - mark you, I'm not talking about giving up something you love doing, I'm talking about retiring from the chase; but if your hunger for power and position never ceases even with age, you're not ambitious, you're a narcissist, a megalomaniacal psychopath.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“Neurons produce consciousness, that's it, that's a hard fact of biology, but that doesn't automatically solve all the moral questions of life - because to solve moral questions of life requires more than mere scientific understanding of nature, it requires backbone, it requires accountability, and above all else, it requires empathy. So do not fixate on intelligence as if it is the lord and master of life, the measure of our being is in our relation with others.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“An extremist life is no life at all, a good life is a mix of extremism and moderation, with occasional laziness sprinkled here and there.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“Life is not all grand gestures and big achievements, most of life is a string of mundane actions, many without any grand outcome, some with no outcome whatsoever, yet all of it matters -

not every action has to have a grand objective, not every action has to be a great moral achievement, or involve a great moral lesson, sometimes you just have to be, not right or wrong, not good or evil, not ethical or unethical, just being.

An extremist life is no life at all, a good life is a mix of extremism and moderation, with occasional laziness sprinkled here and there.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“What good is a knife that is
all blade, and no handle!
What good is a brain that is
devoid of compassion!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“All fight over garments, and none cares for a human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“Binary thinking is the real hard problem of consciousness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human