Quotes from Thiruman Archunan

God is as real as mind and the mind is as real as nature.

Marriage is the best compromise between nature and culture.

Man is not the owner of mind but only a user. The nature owns mind, man hires only a small portion of it that too for a brief period.

without the act of imagination humanity would have perished long back

The usefulness or otherwise of wealth, status and power to a possessor depends only on a single factor: the nature and strength of his reason.

Art works to satisfy the instinct and the science works to satisfy the reason.

The truth exists at the junction between good and bad.

The conscience is a right mix of instinct, reason and culture. The conscience itself is not a truth but it has an ability to access the truth. But the very conscience is assembled only by the reason.

Truth exists: whatever a man not able to tell is actually a truth!

A man who evades his own conscience is a dupe.

A man who lacks reason cheats himself repeatedly.

Accident is nature's way of starting a design; design is a man's way of looking at the accidents.

By God a man is afraid more of himself than anything else; every day he is struggling to construct a God first to suit him, only then to others.

Everything is as real as nothing, whatever way the nothing itself is defined.

Fear has thousand incarnations and of all belief is the most sacred one!

God is as real as mind and the mind is as real as nature.

Good and bad are not of different kinds but only vary in degree; both vary in quantity not in quality. There is nothing called quality but only a variation in quantity; a quality is an effect of varying quantities. This way a good becomes bad at a limiting point that is known to us; but a bad already became bad at a limit that is not known to us!

Human being is the only creature that is stupid enough to feel as intelligent and intelligent enough to understand its stupidity!

Human life is a series of mistakes justified by reason; there is no escape from it since the reason is the first mistake born out of a process subsequently understood as the very life by the very reason!

Life is a mind's attempt to win over other minds as along as it thinks the other minds are different from it.

Love is a discovery, God is an invention.

Man is not the owner of mind but only a user. The nature owns mind, man hires only a small portion of it that too for a brief period.

Marriage is the best compromise between nature and culture.

Nature hides a man many things; but the man hides the nature itself. Nature decides when to show a man what; man decides what to show the society how.