Ali > Ali's Quotes

“Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not want to sign.”
― Théophile Gautier

“Hate the sin, love the sinner.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Knock, And He'll open the door
Vanish, And He'll make you shine like the sun
Fall, And He'll raise you to the heavens
Become nothing, And He'll turn you into everything.”
― Jalal Ad-Din Rumi

“I'm completely in favor of the
separation of Church and State.
... These two institutions screw us up enough
on their own, so both of them together is
certain death.”
― George Carlin

“Religion. It's given people hope in a world torn apart by religion.”
― Jon Stewart

“The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.”
― Mark Twain

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

“Closing your eyes isn't going to change anything. Nothing's going to disappear just because you can't see what's going on. In fact, things will even be worse the next time you open your eyes. That's the kind of world we live in. Keep your eyes wide open. Only a coward closes his eyes. Closing your eyes and plugging up your ears won't make time stand still.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

“Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge.”
― Alberto Manguel, A History of Reading

“Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.”
― Ruth Rendell, A Judgement in Stone

“قد مارستُ لعبة الشطرنج واستمتعت بها إلى الحد الذي دفعني إلى اقتناء كتاب يحتوي على أهم المباريات الدولية لهذه اللعبة. ومن سمة هذه المباريات أن أحد اللاعبين يستسلم قبل نهاية المباراة بعدد من التحريكات قد يقترب من العشرة قبل أن يقال له كش ملك بصفة نهائية. ومعني ذلك أن أحد اللاعبين قد فطن إلى أنه لن يفلت من الهزيمة فاستسلم. والمفارقة هنا أن ثمة حرية للاعبين في بداية المباراة، أي أن ثمة اختيارًا في أن يحرك هذه القطعة أو تلك، ولكن ثمة لحظة يحرك فيها اللاعب قطعة ويكون هذا التحريك بداية لإغراء الخصم بتحريك مضاد يفضي بالضرورة إلى إنهاء المباراة لغير صالحه بعد عدة تحريكات. ومعني ذلك أننا نبدأ بالحرية وننتهي إلى الضرورة.”
― مراد وهبة

“التعصب هو النتيجة الحتمية لمفهوم التابو”
― مراد وهبه, ملاك الحقيقة المطلقة

“فليست العلمانية إنكاراً للأديان، وإنما هي إنكار لدور رجال الدين - بصفتهم رجال دين - في إدارة سياسة الدولة أو توجيهها”
― فرج فودة, الوفد والمستقبل

“الناس ساذجة فاهمين إننا بنزور الانتخابات.. أبدا.. كل الحكاية إننا دارسين نفسية الشعب المصري كويس.. المصريين ربنا خلقهم في ظل الحكومة.. لا يمكن لأي مصري يخالف حكومته.. فيه شعوب طبعها تثور و تتمرد إنما المصري طول عمره يطاطي لأجل ياكل العيش.. الكلام ده مكتوب في التاريخ، الشعب المصري أسهل شعب ينحكم في الدنيا.. أول ما تأخذ السلطة المصريين يخضعوا لك و يتذللوا و تعمل فيهم على مزاجك.. و أي حزب في مصر لما يعمل انتخابات و هو في السلطة لازم يكسبها لأن المصري لازم يؤيد الحكومة.. ربنا خلقه كده..”
― علاء الأسواني, The Yacoubian Building

“But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?”
― Mark Twain

“Satan has certainly been the best friend the church has ever had, as he has kept it in business all these years.”
― Anton Szandor LA Vey, The Satanic Bible

“It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“The ideal architect should be a man of letters, a skillful draftsman, a mathematician, familiar with historical studies, a diligent student of philosophy, acquainted with music, not ignorant of medicine, learned in the responses of jurisconsults, familiar with astronomy and astronomical calculations.”
― Vitruvius

“Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved?”
― Carl Sagan

“Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Faith: not wanting to know what the truth is.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.”
― Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents

“We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love.”
― Sigmund Freud

“The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.”
― William Blake

“Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.”
― William Blake

“Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find nowhere else but in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion. Religion's eleventh commandment is "Thou shalt not question.”
― Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion

“Human beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to admit openly. Some are afraid to show even the slightest sign of affection because of fear. Fear that their feelings may not be recognized, or even worst, returned. But one thing about human beings puzzles me the most is their conscious effort to be connected with the object of their affection even if it kills them slowly within.”
― Sigmund Freud

“How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved”
― Freud