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“إن الغيرة ليست مسألة أسباب في العادة، بل إنها بالأحرى.. كيف أعبر عن ذلك؟ إنها أكثر جوهرية من ذلك؛ إنها تعتمد على معرفة المرء بأن حبه غير متبادل. و هكذا يستمر المرء في الانتظار و الترقب و التوقع منتظرا أن يتحول المحبوب إلى شخص آخر!”
― Agatha Christie

“It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
― Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book

“Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-"God damn it, you've got to be kind.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“In accepting and defending the social institution of slavery, the Greeks were harder-hearted than we but clearer-headed; they knew that labor as such is slavery, and that no man can feel a personal pride in being a laborer. A man can be proud of being a worker – someone, that is, who fabricates enduring objects, but in our society, the process of fabrication has been so rationalized in the interests of speed, economy and quantity that the part played by the individual factory employee has become too small for it to be meaningful to him as work, and practically all workers have been reduced to laborers. It is only natural, therefore, that the arts which cannot be rationalized in this way – the artist still remains personally responsible for what he makes – should fascinate those who, because they have no marked talent, are afraid, with good reason, that all they have to look forward to is a lifetime of meaningless labor. This fascination is not due to the nature of art itself, but to the way in which an artists works; he, and in our age, almost nobody else, is his own master. The idea of being one’s own master appeals to most human beings, and this is apt to lead to the fantastic hope that the capacity for artistic creation is universal, something nearly all human beings, by virtue, not by some special talent, but due to their humanity, could do if they tried.”
― W.H. Auden, The Dyer's Hand and Other Essays

“Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self. […] If the same person were to write his autobiography twice, first in one mode and then in the other, the two accounts would be so different that it would be hard to believe that they referred to the same person. In one he would appear as an obsessed creature, a passionate Knight forever serenading Faith or Beauty, humorless and over-life-size; in the other as coolly detached, full of humor and self-mockery, lacking in a capacity for affection, easily bored and smaller than life-size. As Don Quixote seen by Sancho Panza, he never prays; as Sancho Panza seen by Don Quixote, he never giggles.”
― W.H. Auden, The Dyer's Hand and Other Essays

“Each place has its own advantages - heaven for the climate, and hell for the society.”
― Mark Twain

“…. by the time they have reached the middle of their life’s journey, few people remember how they have managed to arrive at themselves, at their amusements, their point of view, their wife, character, occupation and successes, but they cannot help feeling that not much is likely to change anymore. It might even be asserted that they have been cheated, for one can nowhere discover any sufficient reason for everything’s coming about as it has. It might just have well as turned out differently. The events of people’s lives have, after all, only to the last degree originated in them, having generally depended on all sorts of circumstances such as the moods, the life or death of quite different people, and have, as it were, only at the given point of time come hurrying towards them”
― Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities: Volume I

“Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and self-respect is the chief element in courage.”
― Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
― Anais Nin

“I want to be where your bare foot walks, because maybe before you step, you'll look at the ground. I want that blessing”
― Rumi

“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Memoirs of the life & writings of Benjamin Franklin

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
― Isaac Asimov

“The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here, the inferno where we live every day, that we form by being together. There are two ways to escape suffering it. The first is easy for many: accept the inferno and become such a part of it that you can no longer see it. The second is risky and demands constant vigilance and apprehension: seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space.”
― Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities

“Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

“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

“ أتدري ماذا أراد عبد الناصر منا أن نكون , عشبا أخضر , مزدهرا و يانعا , و لكنه عشب , متشابه العيدان و الأوراق , العشبة تشبه العشبة بلا أدنى اختلاف , ننحني جميعا أمام العاصفة , و نخضع للقص و التشذيب , و نمتص نوع السماد الذي يوضع لنا , لم يرد منا أن نتمايز , أن تخرج منا أزهارا برية أو أحراشا مليئة بالأشواك أو حتى أشجارا تنبت النبق و الحصرم , كان يحرص على تغذيتنا بالسماد المناسب , و لكنه كان يقصنا في الوقت المناسب أيضا ”
― محمد المنسي قنديل إنكسار الروح

“اننا نعيش في عالم أصبحنا غرباء فيه، لم نعد نعرف كيف نتصرف لأننا نسينا كل شيء عن أنفسنا وعن ماضينا. نتذكر أننا كنا في وقت مضى قوة فاعلة فوق هذه الأرض وانتصرنا على غيرنا وحكمنا نصف المعمور حتى خاف منا الداني والقاصي.. ولكن لم نعد ندرك الأسباب الملموسة التي كانت وراء انتصارات خالد وقتيبة وعمرو وموسى وطارق، ولا حتى يوسف وصلاح الدين.. كل ذلك بهت واختلط فعاد لغزا من الألغاز، ذهب سره باختفاء أصحابه.”
― عبد الله العروي, أوراق

“الذاكرة هي القوة على عكس الزمن دون الوعي بالعملية. لهذا السبب، وخلافا لما يبدو لأول وهلة، لا تمثّل نقطة البداية بدءاً، بل تأتي لاحقا، بعد الوعي بالتوقف والالتفات. الوقفة هي التي تستتبع المنطلق. ما إن تكون ذاكرة إلا ويكون خلف واستدارة. فيُروى مبدأ كل شيء، النور، النار، الحيوان، الإنسان، النطق، إلخ..”
― عبد الله العروي, السنة والإصلاح

“ عندما شرعت في قراءة وثائق القرن 19 كنت لا أرى فرقا بين الجهاد والوطنية. كلما صادفت الكلمة فهمت منها تلقائيا الدفاع عن حوزة الوطن ...لأن لقائي مع تلك الوثائق لم يكن أول لقاء . كنت قد سمعت وقرأت عنها منذ نعومة أظفاري ، والبحث الذي قررت القيام به كان في الواقع يدخل ضمن عملية جماعية هي بالضبط بناء وعي وطني مغربي . لم ابدأ أشعر بالفرق إلا بعد أن طالت معاشرتي لتلك الوثائق . بدأت بفهم المخزن في ضوء مفهوم الدولة المعاصرة ، والعامة في ضوء الجماهير ، والخاصة في ضوء النخبة ، والشرف في ضوء النبل ، والحرفة في ضوء النقابة ، والزاوية في ضوء الحزب السياسي ولم أتمكن من إدراك المميزات إلا بعد معايشة طويلة لشواهد الماضي نتج عنها بالتدرج إفراغ الذهن من المفاهيم الجامعة الأولية ....والتطور الطبيعي نفسه هو الذي دفعني إلى إدخال عدة تمييزات وإلى التفريق من جهة بين الحركة الإصلاحية – الجهادية السابقة للاحتلال الفرنسي والحركة التثقيفية – السياسية التي واكبت الاحتلال ، ومن جهة ثانية بين الحركتين معا والوطنية الأوروبية ." ص 248-249”
― عبد الله العروي, مفهوم التاريخ

“أن تكون المرأة شاعرة فهذا أهون على الفحولة من أن تكون منظرة وناقدة وصاحبة رأي وفكر ونظرية.”
― عبدالله محمد الغذامي

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― عبد الله الغذامي, اليد واللسان

“Karl Marx was right, socialism works, it is just that he had the wrong species”
― Edward O. Wilson, The Ants

“The great religions are also, and tragically, sources of ceaseless and unnecessary suffering. They are impediments to the grasp of reality needed to solve most social problems in the real world. Their exquisitely human flaw is tribalism. The instinctual force of tribalism in the genesis of religiosity is far stronger than the yearning for spirituality. People deeply need membership in a group, whether religious or secular. From a lifetime of emotional experience, they know that happiness, and indeed survival itself, require that they bond with others who share some amount of genetic kinship, language, moral beliefs, geographical location, social purpose, and dress code—preferably all of these but at least two or three for most purposes. It is tribalism, not the moral tenets and humanitarian thought of pure religion, that makes good people do bad things.”
― Edward O. Wilson, The Meaning of Human Existence

“Unfortunately a religious group defines itself foremost by its creation story, the supernatural narrative that explains how humans came into existence. And this story is also the heart of tribalism. No matter how gentle and high-minded, or subtly explained, the core belief assures its members that God favors them above all others. It teaches that members of other religions worship the wrong gods, use wrong rituals, follow false prophets, and believe fantastic creation stories. There is no way around the soul-satisfying but cruel discrimination that organized religions by definition must practice among themselves. I doubt there ever has been an imam who suggested that his followers try Roman Catholicism or a priest who urged the reverse.”
― Edward O. Wilson, The Meaning of Human Existence

“But while I'd be their daughter, while I'd eat the roast and come home from dates and wash the dishes, I would also be myself. I would love my mother, but I'd never want to be her again. I would never be what someone else wanted me to be. I would never laugh at a joke I didn't think was funny. I would never tell another lie. I would be the truth-teller, starting today. That would be tough.
But I was tougher.”
― Judy Blundell, What I Saw and How I Lied

“My title “The Fabrication of Facts,” has the virtue not only of indicating pretty clearly what I am going to discuss but also of irritating those fundamentalists who know very well that facts are found not madder, that facts constitute the one and only real world, and that knowledge consists of believing the facts. These articles of faith so firmly possess most of us, they so bind and blind us, that “fabrication of fact” has a paradoxical sound. “Fabrication” has become a synonym for “falsehood” or “fiction” as contrasted with “truth” or “fact.” Of course, we must distinguish falsehood and fiction from truth and fact; but we cannot, I am sure, do it on ground that fiction is fabricated and fact found. - 91”
― Nelson Goodman, Ways of Worldmaking

“«إلى متى نعبد الصنم بعد الصنم، كأننا حُمُرٌ أو نَعَم؟! إلى متى نقول بأفواهنا ما ليس في قلوبنا؟! إلى متى نستظل بشجرة تقلص عنها ظِلّها؟! إلى متى نبتلع السموم و نحن نظن أن الشفاء فيها؟!»”
― أبو حيان التوحيدي

“متى أردنا أن نغير من سلوك الانسان شيئا يجب أ نغير من مفهوم اللذة و المنفعة عنده , و ندخل السلوك المقترح ضمن الاطار العام لغريزة حب الذات ص 77”
― محمد باقر الصدر, فلسفتنا