S. T. Joshi Quotes

The most fundamental tragedy of my life is that the ones who I see do not exist and the one who exists I do not see.

Man is truly born the time he dies.

Man is an appearance, God is a reality.

The best thing about the world is that it has a mysterious structure and the worst thing is that it has a grievous structure.

In hell, the Devil is God.

God speaks to Man through his destiny.

The greatest art is philosophy.

My final destination is my complete knowledge of God.

Ask a scientist a very profound question on his science, and he will be silent. Ask a religious person a very simple question on his religion, and he will be frenzied.

Life exists to be a mystery.

Solitude is unquenched ego.

Most of the history is a divine work of fiction.

Man's greatest battle is being a true philosopher.

God would be the strangest thing to exist.

The final philosophy is the ontology of God.

If God is in Heaven, Hell is empty.

History is like a ghost. It is as dead as alive.

God created the world to be praised on the subtle nature of his existence.

The world can never be in the state of right order, strong government, and good influence unless London is truly and literally established as its capital.

What can be greater to life than to understand its meaning.

The pearl whose possession separates man from beast, the pearl which is the rarest find - the best among virtues - is forgiveness.

I wish I can enjoy no food but food for thought.

Optimism is the staunchest worshipper of life.

At the heart of my metaphysic there is the ultimate question and at the heart of the universe there is the ultimate questioner.

The sound of life has divine silence.

Truth may have been found but might never be known.

Christianity would be helpless without the idea of freewill and the idea of freewill would be helpless without incongruity.

An idealistic lover is a blind lover, and therefore a true lover; a pragmatic lover is a sighted lover, and therefore a false lover.

The world exists to let Man philosophize.

Laugh and a moment will soon arrive when you cry.

The only absurdity in which I find equally immense compassion and morality is Christianity - though the compassion is outlandish and the morality is blemished.

Genius is the ability to see the self-evident where the rest of the world turns blind.

The best of humanity is philosophy.

I have no proof for any proof.

God shall be my last discovery.

I speculate that this is the best of all possible worlds, for philosophy is the best of humanity, and this world is the best philosophically.

For Man nothing is beyond doubt; for God everything is beyond doubt.

The physics of the 21st century shall deal essentially with non-spatial matter and non-spatial mechanics.

A fundamental condition of Being is slavery. Man is the slave of God, and God that of His vanity.

I am philosophical Christ; crucified on the cross of ignorance for the sake of divine vanity.

I'm a slumdog philosopher.

The ultimate philosophical challenge is to reveal the ontology of God.

Philosophy is the only excuse God has for his cruelty and vanity.

Whenever God looks devilish, I see the philosopher fail.

I know what the world exists for, but I know not how it came into existence. I see the design, but not the designer. I understand the question, but not the questioner.

The will of man is the will of God.

History is an orphan. It can speak, but cannot hear. It can give, but cannot take. Its wounds and tragedies can be read and known, but cannot be avoided or cured.

Life is too meaningful to die.

It is profoundly tragic that I am a slave, but it is profoundly joyous that I am God's slave, not that of a devil.

Passion is the soul of youth.