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#1

“Islam appears to me like a perfect work of architecture. All its parts are harmoniously conceived to complement and support each other; nothing is superfluous and nothing lacking; and the result is a structure of absolute balance and solid composure.”
― Muhammad Asad

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#2

“Ada sebuah ungkapan bijak yang mengatakan bahwa manusia itu ada empat macam. Pertama, mereka yang tahu bahawa dirinya tahu. Yang ini patut dipercaya dan diikuti. seperti disinyalir dalam al-Qur’an: ula’ika l-ladziina hadallah, fa-bi-hudaahum iqtadih! (al-An’aam: 90). Kedua, mereka yang tidak tahu bahwa dirinya tahu. Yang seperti ini harus diingatkan dan disadarkan dulu sebelum diikuti. Ketiga, mereka yang tahu bahwa dirinya tidak tahu. Yang semacam ini perlu dibimbing dan ditunjukkan. Keempat, mereka yang tidak tahu bahwa dirinya tidak tahu. Yang model begini tidak perlu dilayani, kerana cenderung ngeyel ‘merasa tahu tetapi tidak tahu merasa’. Kepada golongan ini kita disarankan cukup berkata: salaamun ‘alaykum la nabtahghi l-jaahiliin (al-Qashash: 55).”
― Syamsuddin Arif, Orientalis & Diabolisme Pemikiran

tags: ilmu, tahu

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#3

“All knowledge that is about human society, and not about the natural world, is historical knowledge, and therefore rests upon judgment and interpretation. This is not to say that facts or data are nonexistent, but that facts get their importance from what is made of them in interpretation… for interpretations depend very much on who the interpreter is, who he or she is addressing, what his or her purpose is, at what historical moment the interpretation takes place.”
― Edward Said

tags: history, human-society, interpretation, knowledge

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#4

“Scientific thought and its creation is the common and shared heritage of mankind.”
― Abdus Salam

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#5

“My heart is so small
it's almost invisible.
How can You place
such big sorrows in it?
"Look," He answered,
"your eyes are even smaller,
yet they behold the world.”
― Rumi

tags: spirituality

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#6

“There are people who like to be alone without feeling lonely at all.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

tags: alone, lonely

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#7

“Intelligence minus purpose equals stupidity.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

tags: intelligence, purpose, stupidity

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#8

“If you say that you never lie in life,
you honestly insult my intelligence.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

tags: exist, fact, lie, life, sin

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#9

“This very heart which is mine will forever remain indefinable to me. Between the certainty I have of my existence and the content I try to give to that assurance, the gap will never be filled. Forever I shall be a stranger to myself.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

tags: existentialism

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#10

“Man is like an island set in isolation in a fathomless sea enveloped by darkness, saying that the loneliness his self knows is so utterly absolute because even he knows not his self completely.”
― Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas, Islam and Secularism

tags: islam

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#11

“An Islamic university...structure is different from a Western University; [its] conception of what constitutes knowledge is different from what Western philosophers set forth as knowledge; [its] aims and aspirations are different from Western conceptions. The purpose of higher education is not, like in the West, to produce the complete citizen, but rather, as in Islam, to produce the complete man, or the universal man.... A Muslim scholar is a man who is not a specialist in any one branch of knowledge but is universal in his outlook and is authoritative in several branches of related knowledge.”
― Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas

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#12

“Definisi epistemologis yang paling tepat untuk ilmu, dengan Allah Subhanallahu wa Ta'ala sebagai sumbernya, ialah tibanya (husul) makna (ma'na) sesuatu benda atau objek ilmu ke dalam jiwa. Dengan memandang jiwa sebagai penafsir maka ilmu adalah tibanya (wusul) diri (jiwa) kepada makna sesuatu hal atau suatu objek ilmu.”
― Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas, Islam and Secularism

tags: ilmu

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#13

“Ibarat manusia tanpa keperibadian, universiti moden tidak mempunyai pusat yang sangat penting dan tetap, tidak ada prinsip-prinsip utama yang tetap, yang menjelaskan tujuan akhirnya. Ia tetap menganggap dirinya memikirkan hal-hal universal dan bahkan menyatakan memiliki fakulti dan jurusan sebagaimana layaknya tubuh suatu organ - tetapi ia tidak memiliki otak, jangan akal (intellect) dan jiwa, kecuali oleh dalam suatu fungsi pengurusan murni untuk pemeliharaan dan perkembangan jasmani. Perkembangannya tidak dibimbing oleh suatu prinsip yang akhir dan tujuan yang jelas, kecuali oleh prinsip nisbi yang mendorong mengejar ilmu tanpa henti dan tujuan yang jelas.”
― Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas, Islam and Secularism

tags: ilmu, universiti

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#14

“How people themselves perceive what they are doing is not a question that interests me. I mean, there are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, 'That person I see is a savage monster'; instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do. If you ask the CEO of some major corporation what he does he will say, in all honesty, that he is slaving 20 hours a day to provide his customers with the best goods or services he can and creating the best possible working conditions for his employees. But then you take a look at what the corporation does, the effect of its legal structure, the vast inequalities in pay and conditions, and you see the reality is something far different.”
― Noam Chomsky

tags: capitalism, ceos, corporations, delusion, inequality

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#15

“There is no deception on the part of the woman, where a man bewilders himself: if he deludes his own wits, I can certainly acquit the women. Whatever man allows his mind to dwell upon the imprint his imagination has foolishly taken of women, is fanning the flames within himself -- and, since the woman knows nothing about it, she is not to blame. For if a man incites himself to drown, and will not restrain himself, it is not the water's fault.”
― John Gower, Confessio Amantis, Volume 1

tags: cause-and-effect, clichés, deceit, delusion, discrimination, double-standards, expectations, gender, inequality, men, misogyny, perception, prejudice, self-deception, social-norms, stereotypes, women

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#16

“We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.”
― Noam Chomsky

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#17

“If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.”
― Noam Chomsky

tags: belief, believe, despise, expression, freedom, freedom-of-expression

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#18

“The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive, and so on -- because they're dysfunctional to the institutions.”
― Noam Chomsky

tags: education, education-system, instituions

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#19

“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum....”
― Noam Chomsky, The Common Good

tags: 1998

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#20

“All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.”
― Noam Chomsky

tags: apathy, complacency, consumerism, control, learned-helplessness, resignation, the-powers-that-be

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#21

“Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in it.”
― Noam Chomsky

tags: participate, responsibility, stop-terrorism, terror, terrorism

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#22

“Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so.”
― Noam Chomsky

tags: future, optimism, responsibility

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#23

“It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies.”
― Noam Chomsky

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#24

“I was never aware of any other option but to question everything.”
― Noam Chomsky

tags: philosophy

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#25

“Education is a system of imposed ignorance.”
― Noam Chomsky, Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media

tags: education, homeschooling, ignorance, public-education

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#26

“For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit.”
― Noam Chomsky, Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World

tags: crime, double-standards, hypocrisy, politics, power, war-crimes

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#27

“Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines that everybody else is saying,... [o]r else you say something which in fact is true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.”
― Noam Chomsky, Propaganda and the Public Mind

tags: truth

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#28

“I think it only makes sense to seek out and identify structures of authority, hierarchy, and domination in every aspect of life, and to challenge them; unless a justification for them can be given, they are illegitimate, and should be dismantled, to increase the scope of human freedom.”
― Noam Chomsky

tags: authority, challenge, dismantle, domination, freedom, heirarchy, human-freedom, illegitimate-power, justification

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#29

“It's not radical Islam that worries the US -- it's independence”
― Noam Chomsky

tags: america, independence, islam, united-states, us

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#30

“The more you can increase fear of drugs, crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all of the people.”
― Noam Chomsky

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