Yahya Chiguer > Yahya's Quotes

“Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking...”
― Leo Tolstoy

“إن أهل الشرائع أخذوا الدين عن رؤسائهم بالتقليد، ودفعوا النظر والبحث عن الأصول، وشدّدوا فيه ونهوا عنه، ورووا عن رؤسائهم أخبارا توجب عليهم ترك النظر ديانة، وتوجب الكفر على من خالف الأخبار التي رووها... إن سئل أهل هذه الدعوى عن الدليل على صحّة دعواهم، استطاروا غضبا، وهدروا دم من يطالبهم بذلك، ونهوا عن النظر، وحرضوا على قتل مخالفيهم. فمن أجل ذلك اندفن الحقّ أشدّ اندفان، وانكتم أشدّ انكتام" - أبو بكر الرازي”
― الرازي

“اثنان أهل الأرض : ذو عقــلٍ بلا ديــن وآخر ديِّنٌ لا عقل لهْ”
― أبو العلاء المعري

“أمّا اليَقين فلا يَقـــين وإنّمَا -- أقصَى اجتهادي أن أظُنَ وأحدِسَا”
― أبو العلاء المعري

“ولما رأيت الجهل في الناس فاشيا
تجاهلت حتى قيل إني جاهل
فوا عجبا كم يدعي الفضل ناقص
ووا أسفا كم يظهر النقص فاضل”
― أبو العلاء المعري

“لا إمام سوى العقل”
― أبو العلاء المعري

“في اللاذقية ضجة ما بين أحمد والــــمسيحُ
هذا بناقوس يدق وذا بمئذنة يــــــــــــصيحُ
كلٌ يعظِّم دنيه يا ليت شعري ما الصحيحُ ؟”
― أبو العلاء المعري

“وقد فتشتُ عن أصحاب دين * لهم نُسْك وليس لهم رياء..
فألفيتُ البهائم لا عقول * تقيم لها الدليل ولا ضياء..
وإخوان الفطانة في اختيال * كأنهمُ لقوم أنبياء..
فأما هؤلاء فأهل مكر * وأما الأولون فأغبياء..
فإن كان التُّقَى بَلَها وعِيّا * فأعيار المذلة أتقياء..”
― أبو العلاء المعري, اللزوميات

“فبعضي لديّ وبعضي لديك .. وبعضي مُشتاق لبعضي .. فهلّا أتيت ؟”
― محمود درويش

“بُلينا بقوم يظنون أن الله لم يهد سواهم.”
― ابن سينا

“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“How do you cause people to believe in an imagined order such as Christianity, democracy or capitalism? First, you never admit that the order is imagined.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“I am free and that is why I am lost.”
― Franz Kafka

“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief.”
― Franz Kafka

“A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.”
― Franz Kafka

“The meaning of life is that it stops.”
― Franz Kafka

“All language is but a poor translation.”
― Franz Kafka

“I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

“I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.”
― Albert Camus, L'Étranger

“I had only a little time left and I didn't want to waste it on God.”
― Albert Camus, L'Étranger

“There is not love of life without despair about life.”
― Albert Camus, Lyrical and Critical Essays

“Since we're all going to die, it's obvious that when and how don't matter.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

“It was as if that great rush of anger had washed me clean, emptied me of hope, and, gazing up at the dark sky spangled with its signs and stars, for the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe.
To feel it so like myself, indeed, so brotherly, made me realize that I'd been happy, and that I was happy still. For all to be accomplished, for me to feel less lonely, all that remained to hope was that on the day of my execution there should be a huge crowd of spectators and that they should greet me with howls of execration.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

“Have you no hope at all? And do you really live with the thought that when you die, you die, and nothing remains?" "Yes," I said.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

“I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

“Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday; I can't be sure.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

“She was wearing a pair of my pajamas with the sleeves rolled up. When she laughed I wanted her again. A minute later she asked me if I loved her. I told her it didn't mean anything but that I didn't think so. She looked sad. But as we were fixing lunch, and for no apparent reason, she laughed in such a way that I kissed her.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

“I had been right, I was still right, I was always right. I had lived my life one way and I could just as well have lived it another. I had done this and I hadn't done that. I hadn't done this thing but I had done another. And so?”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

“Maman used to say that you can always find something to be happy about. In my prison, when the sky turned red and a new day slipped into my cell, I found out that she was right.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger