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“The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then — to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.”
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King

“Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked”
― Richard Buckminster Fuller

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
― Buckminster Fuller

“If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don't bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.”
― Richard Buckminster Fuller

“It is essential that anyone reading this book know at the outset that the author is apolitical. I was convinced in 1927 that humanity's most fundamental survival problems could never be solved by politics.”
― Richard Buckminster Fuller, Grunch of Giants

“The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.”
― Alan Wilson Watts, The Culture of Counter-Culture: Edited Transcripts

“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”
― J. Krishnamurti

“You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing, and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Governments want efficient technicians, not human beings, because human beings become dangerous to governments – and to organized religions as well. That is why governments and religious organizations seek to control education.”
― J. Krishnamurti, Education and the Significance of Life

“Find out for yourself what are the possesions and ideals that you do not desire. By knowing what you do not want, by elimination, you will unburden the mind, and only then will it understand the essential which is ever there.”
― J. Krishnamurti

“Happiness is strange; it comes when you are not seeking it. When you are not making an effort to be happy, then unexpectedly, mysteriously, happiness is there, born of purity, of a loveliness of being.”
― J. Krishnamurti

“If you lose touch with nature you lose touch with humanity.
If there's no relationship with nature then you become a killer;
then you kill baby seals, whales, dolphins, and man
either for gain, for "sport," for food, or for knowledge.
Then nature is frightened of you, withdrawing its beauty.
You may take long walks in the woods or camp in lovely places
but you are a killer and so lose their friendship.
You probably are not related to anything to your wife or your husband.”
― J. Krishnamurti

“The following of authority is the denial of intelligence. [It] may help us temporarily to cover up our difficulties and problems; but to avoid a problem is only to intensify it, and in the process, self-knowledge and freedom are abandoned.”
― J. Krishnamurti, Education and the Significance of Life

“I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.”
― Bertrand Russell

“Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.”
― Bertrand Russell

“Experience has taught that politics is a game played by conmen and hypocrites.”
― Michela Wrong, In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu's Congo

“Spirituality can go hand-in-hand with ruthless single-mindedness when the individual is convinced his cause is just”
― Michela Wrong, In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu's Congo

“You cannot have a society of angels except in heaven”
― Michela Wrong

“And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence”
― Bertrand Russell

“The world was full of cravens who pretended to be heroes; it took a queer sort of courage to admit to cowardice...”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Tyrion shrugged. “We all need to be mocked from time to time Lord Mormont lest we start to take ourselves too seriously.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“How is this revolution to take place? Nobody knows how it will take place in humanity, but every man feels it clearly in himself. And yet in our world everybody thinks of changing humanity, and nobody thinks of changing himself”
― Leo Tolstoy

“التخلف الاجتماعي هو في النهاية ثمرة الاستغلال والاستعباد”
― مصطفى حجازي, التخلف الاجتماعي: مدخل إلى سيكولوجية الإنسان المقهور

“الإنسان المتخلف كالمجتمع المتخلف سلفي أساساً. يتوجه نحو الماضي ويتمسك بالتقاليد والأعراف بدل التصدي للحاضر والتطلع للمستقبلِ.”
― مصطفى حجازي, التخلف الاجتماعي: مدخل إلى سيكولوجية الإنسان المقهور

“إن الكثير من التصرفات الاستعراضية التي تشيع في البلدان النامية، تهدف بالتحديد إلى التستر على عقده العار خصوصًا الاستعراض الاستهلاكي. يأتي بعده كل أشكال الإدعاء والتبجّح وخداع الآخرين بجاه أو مال أو حظوة لا أساس لها من الواقع.
إن إنسان العالم المتخلف هو أسير المظاهر مهما كانت سطحيها مادامت تخدم غرض التستر على عاره الذاتي.-”
― مصطفى حجازي, التخلف الاجتماعي: مدخل إلى سيكولوجية الإنسان المقهور

“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“قل ماتشاء ولا تخشي شيئاً ...
مادمت تعتقد أنه حق فقله بملء فيك ...
إياك ان تكبت المبادئ خوفاً من الاشخاص...
إن قدرة الاشخاص محدوده فانيه ، أما قوة المبادئ فخالده باقيه.

وراء الستار”
― يوسف السباعي

“Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different style.”
― R.L. Stine

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
― Groucho Marx

“′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
― Mark Twain