Subhash Kak Quotes

There is nothing as uplifting and inspiring as the Upanishads.

A culture is like a lens through which people construct their world.

Man is a mimic animal, happiest acting a part, needing a mask to tell the truth.

The dance of the peacock attracts not only the peahen but also the human.

The body is like the wife to the spirit. The two must cohabit to create new forms, but their pleasures rarely coincide.

Ritual is intimately connected with the mask, either in the wearing that hides the true face, or in the adoption of a public face.

Europe has resurrected its pagan gods.

Once scientists and scholars invest parts of their career in support of a paradigm, it becomes a sort of a self-betrayal to abandon it.

The best paradise is the paradise we are exiled from.

The clash of civilizations is nothing but a clash of different myths.

People embrace false magical theories in the hope something good will come out of them. In the most extreme of these, good comes out of them only at the end of this life, in paradise.

History is scraps of evidence joined by the glue of imagination.

Since language is linear, whereas the unfolding of the universe takes place in a multitude of dimensions, language is limited in its ability to describe reality.

The idea of consciousness requires not only an awareness of things, but also the awareness that one is aware.

Like other social media platforms, Wikipedia has evolved into an echo chamber where the user is presented with only one type of content instead of being shown a balanced narrative. This disinformation is powerful since the articles are written in an academic style and users do not see other sources that disagree with the article.... Some editors of Wikipedia are failed academics with demonic energy who wish to conquer anonymously what they were unable to do in their normal careers. And spending much of their working life editing Wikipedia articles and by the use of multiple anonymous handles they have obtained administrative status which entitles them to block opposing views. The anonymous persona of the editors and the low stakes have made Wikipedia politics much more vicious than real politics.