Tag: thoughts

  • Hatred is a state of insolvency towards compassion.

    Hatred is a state of insolvency towards compassion.

    Hatred is a state of insolvency towards compassion. One can not be hateful towards a hater, precisely for this. One has to be totally devoid of compassion, to be able to hate a hater. A hater makes one a hater. One can’t afford to be a hater, if one is not. Haters win by hatred,…

  • Pretension is more powerful than indifference.

    Pretension is more powerful than indifference.

    Pretension is more powerful than indifference. We are indifferent to the plight of others. The politician pretends that it is interested in knowing the plights, although deep inside, they have their self serving interests in mind. The politician goes to a power base which we can not dislodge them from, if we are not to…

  • A few thoughts on religion and science

    We don’t need monasteries, but we need laboratories and libraries and universities and downtowns with a lot of bars. Without the laboratories we will be tyrannous to our families, without the universities and libraries we will be wonderers but without the bars and hang-arounds our creativity will be like a dead man’s dreams. Science is…