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“People with dimple have a divine role in this universe: smile!”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

“...چگونه این آگاهی مانع از عاشق شدن من نشد؟ زیرا غیرمنطقی و کودکانه بودن ِ نیازم بر تمایلم به باور آن می چربید. آگاه بودم که از خود بی خودی عاشقانه چه خلایی را می توانست پر کند. می دانستم وقتی انگشت روی کسی می گذاشتیم که دوستش بداریم چه شعفی به ما دست می دهد. احتمالاً مدت ها پیش از آن که چشمم هم به کلوئه بیفتد، نیاز داشته ام در چهره کسی آن صداقتی را بیابم که هرگز در چهره خودم ندیده بودم.”
― Alain de Botton, On Love

“One has to go into relationships with equal expectations, ready to give as much as the other”
― Alain de Botton, Essays In Love

“تنها نوع آزادی که لیاقت نامش را داد آن است که، به روش خودمان خیر خود را دنبال کنیم، منوط بر اینکه مانع آزادی دیگران نشویم.”
― Alain de Botton, On Love

“Overcoming childhood could be understood as an attempt to correct the false stories of others.”
― Alain de Botton, On Love

“حکومت‌هایی که برای جامعه و شهروندان، چرب‌زبانی نمی‌کنند، آزاری به آنها نمی‌رسانند و تنها محدودشان می‌کنند، درحالی‌که کشورهایی که مدام از عشق و دوستی و برادری دم می‌زنند درنهایت گروه‌گروه جمعیتشان را از دم تیغ می‌گذرانند.”
― Alain de Botton, On Love

“چه‌بسا حقیقت این است که تا، کسی ندیده باشدمان، وجود نداریم، نمی‌توانیم درست حرف بزنیم، تا وقتی کسی به حرفمان گوش بدهد، و در یک کلام، کاملاً زنده نیستیم، تا زمانی که دوست داشته بشویم.”
― Alain de Botton, On Love

“Yes, I deserve a spring–I owe nobody nothing.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Writer's Diary

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“Do you pay regular visits to yourself? Don't argue or answer rationally. Let us die, and dying, reply.”
― Rumi

“To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3-parts dead.”
― Bertrand Russell

“Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.”
― Bertrand Russell

“One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.”
― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

“Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.”
― Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays

“It's easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.”
― Bertrand Russell

“Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.”
― Bertrand Russell

“It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.”
― Bertrand Russell

“Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a great ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair.

I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy - ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of this joy. I have sought it, next, because it relieves loneliness--that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss. I have sought it finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined. This is what I sought, and though it might seem too good for human life, this is what--at last--I have found.

With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway above the flux. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved.

Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate this evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer.

This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me.”
― Bertrand Russell

“When considering marriage one should ask oneself this question; 'will I be able to talk with this person into old age?' Everything else is transitory, the most time is spent in conversation.”
― Bertrand Russell

“Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know”
― Bertrand Russell

“If throughout your life you abstain from murder, theft, fornication, perjury, blasphemy, and disrespect toward your parents, church, and your king, you are conventionally held to deserve moral admiration even if you have never done a single kind, generous or useful action. This very inadequate notion of virtue is an outcome of taboo morality, and has done untold harm.”
― Bertrand Russell

“To all the talented young men who wander about feeling that there is nothing in the world for them to do, I should say: 'Give up trying to write, and, instead, try not to write. Go out into the world; become a pirate, a king in Borneo, a labourer in Soviet Russia; give yourself an existence in which the satisfaction of elementary physical needs will occupy almost all your energies.' I do not recommend this course of action to everyone, but only to those who suffer from the disease which Mr Krutch diagnoses. I believe that, after some years of such an existence, the ex-intellectual will fin that in spite of is efforts he can no longer refrain from writing, and when this time comes his writing will not seem to him futile.”
― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

“I think that there is far too much work done in the world, that immense harm is caused by the belief that work is virtuous, and that what needs to be preached in modern industrial countries is quite different from what always has been preached.”
― Bertrand Russell

“I have been accused of a habit of changing my opinions. I am not myself in any degree ashamed of having changed my opinions. What physicist who was already active in 1900 would dream of boasting that his opinions had not changed during the last half century? In science men change their opinions when new knowledge becomes available; but philosophy in the minds of many is assimilated rather to theology than to science. The kind of philosophy that I value and have endeavoured to pursue is scientific, in the sense that there is some definite knowledge to be obtained and that new discoveries can make the admission of former error inevitable to any candid mind. For what I have said, whether early or late, I do not claim the kind of truth which theologians claim for their creeds. I claim only, at best, that the opinion expressed was a sensible one to hold at the time when it was expressed. I should be much surprised if subsequent research did not show that it needed to be modified. I hope, therefore, that whoever uses this dictionary will not suppose the remarks which it quotes to be intended as pontifical pronouncements, but only as the best I could do at the time towards the promotion of clear and accurate thinking. Clarity, above all, has been my aim.”
― Bertrand Russell, Dictionary of Mind, Matter and Morals

“One must care about a world one will not see.”
― Bertrand Russell

“Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.”
― Bertrand Russell

“تُنسى كأنك لم تكن

تنسى كمصرع طائر

ككنيسة مهجورة تنسى

كحب عابر

وكوردة في الريح

وكوردة في الثلج

تنسى

انا للطريق

هناك من سبقت خطاه خطاي

من املى رؤاه على رؤاي

هناك من نثر الكلام على سجيته

ليعبر في الحكاية

او يضيء لمن سيأتي بعده

أثرا غنائيا وجرسا

تُنسى كأنك لم تكن

شخصا ولا نصا..وتنسى

امشي على هدي البصيرة

ربما أعطي الحكاية سيرة شخصية

فالمفردات تقودني وأقودها

انا شكلها

وهي التجلي الحر

لكن قيل ما سأقول

يسبقني غد ماض

انا ملك الصدى لا عرش لي الا الهوامش

فالطريق هو الطريقة

ربما نسي الأوائل وصف شيء ما

لاوقظ فيه عاطفة وحسا

تنسى كأنك لم تكن خبرا ولا أثرا وتنسى

انا للطريق

هناك من تمشي خطاه على خطاي

ومن سيسبقني الى رؤياي

من سيقول شعرا في مديح حدائق المنفى امام البيت

حرا من غدي المقصوم

من غيبي ودنياي

حرا من عبادة الأمس

من فردوسي الأرضي

حرا من كناياتي ومن لغتي

فأشهد أنني حر وحي حين..أُنسى”
― محمود درويش

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
― Cicero

“از هر طرفی که روی، اگر راه روی، راه بری”
― Shahab al-Din Suhrawardi, عقل سرخ