Subhash Kak Quotes

Modern life alienates us from Nature, even our own.

If social media can bring the sense of freedom, it can also bind people into delusional cults.

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.

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

The essence of the Vedas is a narrative on who the experiencing self is. Ordinary science informs us of the relationships between objects and also their transformations. But the Vedas say that this ordinary science leaves out the self who observes these objects.

Europe has resurrected its pagan gods.

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

If chess is about decisive victory by vanquishing the enemy by taking the fight to the place where the king is located, weiqi is about consolidation of territory.

Men and women in their mutual attraction are driven to the very emptiness they are trying to avoid.

Gods have many faces.

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.

If the heart sorrows over physical loss, the spirit rejoices over hope of understanding.

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

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

Beauty takes us to a space that is ineffable, a place of secrets.