On Thinking

Man is a thinking animal. Thinking is a skill which changes an animal into a man. Thinking has helped man to become civilised. It has also helped man to become cultured. Man's thinking is more powerful than a nuclear explosion. Thinking helped Buddha to reach his enlightenment. Thinking transformed Socrates into the father of Greek philosophy. Man's thinking has created great empires, movements and revolutions. It has created great thinkers like Karl Marx, Rousseau, Voltaire and Montesquieu. Man's future lies in his present thinking.

There are two kinds of thinking: good thinking and bad thinking. 

Good thinking is the result of combining logical thinking with compassion for fellow beings. Good thinking gave man his fire, wheel, writing, fine arts, and helped him build wonderful structures like Pyramids and Tajmahal. Good thinking helped Columbus invent America. Good thinking helped the inventors like Marconi, Edison, Faraday and Galileo. Good thinking helped Einstein formulate his theory of special and general relativity. Good thinking triggered industrial revolution and the good thinking made Americans raise against British rule and the same thinking whipped by the philosophers trio erupted as a volcano of French revolution. It created the lovers of nature and mankind like Wordsworth, Keats, Shelley, Milton, Shakespeare, Rousseau, Aristotle, Zoroaster, Jesus, Mohammed, Confucius, Lao Tsu and the Buddha.

Good thinking makes a person strong, courageous, sincere, useful and wise.

Bad thinking is a result of combining illogical thinking with cruelty to fellow beings. Bad thinking has given birth to inexcusable sins like war, prostitution, slavery, superstition, immoral life and biased beliefs.