A THREAD on timeless ideas by Jawaharlal Nehru:
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It is science alone that can solve the problems of hunger and poverty, of insanitation and illiteracy, of superstition and deadening custom and tradition, of vast resources running to waste...
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It is science alone that can solve the problems of hunger and poverty, of insanitation and illiteracy, of superstition and deadening custom and tradition, of vast resources running to waste...
...Who indeed could afford to ignore science today?
The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.
The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.
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Life is like a game of cards.
The hand that is dealt you is determinism; the way you play it is free will.
Life is like a game of cards.
The hand that is dealt you is determinism; the way you play it is free will.
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We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure.
There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure.
There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
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What the mysterious is I do not know.
I do not call it God because God has come to mean much that I do not believe in.
I find myself incapable of thinking of a deity or of any unknown supreme power in anthropomorphic terms, and the fact that...
What the mysterious is I do not know.
I do not call it God because God has come to mean much that I do not believe in.
I find myself incapable of thinking of a deity or of any unknown supreme power in anthropomorphic terms, and the fact that...
... many people think so is continually a source of surprise to me.
Any idea of a personal God seems very odd to me.
Any idea of a personal God seems very odd to me.
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The spectacle of what is called religion, or at any rate organised religion, has filled me with horror and I have frequently condemned it and wished to make a clean sweep of it...
The spectacle of what is called religion, or at any rate organised religion, has filled me with horror and I have frequently condemned it and wished to make a clean sweep of it...
...Almost always it seemed to stand for blind belief and reaction, dogma and bigotry, superstition, exploitation and the preservation of vested interests.
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Politics and religion are obsolete.
The time has come for science and spirituality.
Politics and religion are obsolete.
The time has come for science and spirituality.
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Life is too complicated and, as far as we can understand it in our present state of knowledge, too illogical, for it to be confined within the four corners of a fixed doctrine.
Life is too complicated and, as far as we can understand it in our present state of knowledge, too illogical, for it to be confined within the four corners of a fixed doctrine.
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The impact of science and the modern world have brought a greater appreciation of facts, a more critical faculty, a weighing of evidence, a refusal to accept tradition merely because it is tradition.
The impact of science and the modern world have brought a greater appreciation of facts, a more critical faculty, a weighing of evidence, a refusal to accept tradition merely because it is tradition.
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Only when we are politically and economically free will the mind function normally and critically.
Only when we are politically and economically free will the mind function normally and critically.
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