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“ذو العقلِ يشقى في النعيمِ بعقلهِ
وأخو الجهالةِ في الشقاوةِ ينعمُ”
― أبو الطيب المتنبي

“لقد كنت قبل اليوم أنكر صاحبي .. إذا لم يكن ديني إلى دينه داني
لقد صارَ قلـبي قابلاً كلَ صُـورةٍ .. فـمرعىً لغـــــزلانٍ ودَيرٌ لرُهبـَــــانِ
ِوبيتٌ لأوثــانٍ وكعـــبةُ طـائـــفٍ .. وألـواحُ تـوراةٍ ومصـحفُ قــــــرآن
أديـنُ بدينِ الحــــبِ أنّى توجّـهـتْ .. ركـائـبهُ ، فالحبُّ ديـني وإيـمَاني”
― محيي الدين بن عربي, ترجمان الأشواق

“ما هذه القدرة عند العربي على تحمّل وجود هو أكثرُ من موت و أقلّ من حياة ؟”
― أدونيس

“إن العرب ليظلون يتحدثون بضجيج و إدعاء عن أمجادهم و انتصاراتهم الخطابية حتى ليذهبون يحسبون أن ما قالوه قد فعلوه ، و أنه لم يبق شيئا عظيم أو جيد لم يفعلوه لكي يفعلوه .. إن من آصل و أرسخ و أشهر مواهبم أن يعتقدوا أنهم قد فعلوا الشيء لأنهم قد تحدثوا عنه.”
― عبد الله القصيمي, العرب ظاهرة صوتية

“إن السجود الفكري هو المشرِّع لكل أنواع العبوديات الأخرى”
― عبد الله القصيمي, أيها العقل من رآك

“إن في الإنسان شوقاً إلى أن يكون خرافياً ، إن الحقيقة وحدها كئيبة ، غبية ، دميمة”
― عبد الله القصيمي, أيها العقل من رآك

“I'd far rather be happy than right any day.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“شكراً للعادة فقد قتلت كل حزن .. وفرح”
― نجيب محفوظ, عصر الحب

“Sometimes at midnight, in the great silence of the sleep-bound town, the doctor turned on his radio before going to bed for the few hours’ sleep he allowed himself. And from the ends of the earth, across the thousands of miles of land and sea, kindly, well-meaning speakers tried to voice their fellow-feeling, and indeed did so, but at the same time proved the utter incapacity of every man truly to share in suffering that he cannot see.”
― Albert Camus, The Plague

“For there is a growing apprehension that existence is a rat-race in a trap: living organisms, including people,are merely tubes which put things in at one end and let them out at the other, which both keeps them doing it and in the long run wears them out. So to keep the farce going, the tubes find ways of making new
tubes, which also put things in at one end and let them out at the other. At the input end they even develop ganglia of nerves called brains, with eyes and ears, so that they can more easily scrounge around for things to swallow. As and when they get enough to eat, they use up their surplus energy by wiggling in complicated patterns, making all sorts of noises by blowing air in and out of the input hole, and gathering together in groups to fight with other groups. In time, the tubes grow such an
abundance of attached appliances that they are hardly recognizable as mere tubes, and they manage to do this in a staggering variety of forms. There is a vague rule not to eat tubes of your own form, but in general there is serious competition as to who is going to be the top type of tube. All this seems marvelously futile, and yet, when you begin to think about it, it begins to be more marvelous than futile. Indeed, it seems extremely odd.”
― Alan Watts

“Dance, when you're broken open.
Dance, if you've torn the bandage off.
Dance in the middle of the fighting.
Dance in your blood.
Dance, when you're perfectly free.”
― Rumi, The Essential Rumi