Subhash Kak citations

“Modern life alienates us from Nature, even our own.”

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

“When the mind grasps the universe, the senses retreat.”

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

“What is the chance that one can roll up the sky like a hide?”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“I have so much of desire that desire itself is my fulfillment.”

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

“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 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.”

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

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

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

“One is not a single self, although there is some common thread holding together disparate incarnations.”

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

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

“Europe has resurrected its pagan gods.”

“There is nothing as uplifting and inspiring as the Upanishads.”

“The world is a game of information and paradox.”

“The best paradise is the paradise we are exiled from.”

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

“Gods have many faces.”

“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.”