Subhash Kak quotes

Subhash Kak is an Indian-American computer scientist, historian, and philosopher of science. His research covers diverse fields such as cryptography, artificial intelligence, and the ancient history of India. He has contributed significantly to the understanding of Indian scientific heritage and the philosophy of mind. Here are 28 of his quotes:

Europe has resurrected its pagan gods. (Subhash Kak)
Gods have many faces. View quote
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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. View quote
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Man is a mimic animal, happiest acting a part, needing a mask to tell the truth. View quote
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Men and women in their mutual attraction are driven to the very emptiness they are trying to avoid. View quote
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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. View quote
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The body is like the wife to the spirit. The two must cohabit to create new forms, but their pleasures rarely coincide. View quote
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History is scraps of evidence joined by the glue of imagination. View quote
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When the mind grasps the universe, the senses retreat. View quote
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If the heart sorrows over physical loss, the spirit rejoices over hope of understanding. View quote
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A culture is like a lens through which people construct their world. (Subhash Kak)
There is nothing as uplifting and inspiring as the Upanishads. View quote
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The world is a game of information and paradox. View quote
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The best paradise is the paradise we are exiled from. View quote
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The dance of the peacock attracts not only the peahen but also the human. View quote
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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. View quote
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What is the chance that one can roll up the sky like a hide? View quote
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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. View quote
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Ritual is intimately connected with the mask, either in the wearing that hides the true face, or in the adoption of a public face. View quote
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I have so much of desire that desire itself is my fulfillment. View quote
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Modern life alienates us from Nature, even our own. (Subhash Kak)
If social media can bring the sense of freedom, it can also bind people into delusional cults. View quote
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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. View quote
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Beauty takes us to a space that is ineffable, a place of secrets. View quote
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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. View quote
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Subhash Kak

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Born: March 26, 1947
Quotes count: 28
Wikipedia: Subhash Kak

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