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“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“إذا لم تكن قوانين الطبيعة هي السبب في معاناة الفقراء، فخطيئتنا ستكون عظيمة”
― تشارلز داروين

“Please believe that one single positive dream is more important than a thousand negative realities.”
― Adeline Yen Mah, Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter

“Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin. The inexplicable fact is that the blinder it is, the more tenacious it is. It is never stronger than when it is completely unreasonable.”
― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

“الخِلاَفْ الطَويل يَعْنِي : أنّ كِلاَ الطّرَفينْ عَلَىْ خَطَأ !!”
― فولتير

“سُئلت عمن سيقود الجنس البشري ؟ فأجبت : الذين يعرفون كيف يقرؤون”
― فولتير

“أيتها الصداقة لولاك لكان المرء وحيدا وبفضلك يستطيع المرء أن يضاعف نفسه وأن يحيا في نفوس الأخرين.”
― فولتير

“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
― Voltaire

“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
― Voltaire

“يتعين اعتبار تشارلز داروين كأول عالم نفس تطوري بسبب نبوءته في نهاية بحثه بعنوان "في أصل الأنواع 1859" حيث يقول:
أرى في المستقبل البعيد مجالات مفتوحة لأبحاث أكثر أهمية. وسيقوم علم النفس على أساس جديد يتمثل في ضرورة اكتساب كل قوة عقلية وكل كفاءة بالتدريج.”
― David M. Buss, Evolutionary Psychology: The New Science of the Mind

“هل تعني حقائق تاريخنا القديم أن الإنسان ليس خاصًا أو متفردًا بين المخلوقات الحية؟ طبعًا لا. في الحقيقة، إن معرفة شيء حول الأصول السّحيقة للإنسانية فقط تضيف لحقيقة وجودنا المتميّز: أن قدراتنا الخارقة جميعها، نشأت من مكونات أساسية تطوّرت في الأسماك، والمخلوقات الأخرى القديمة. من الأجزاء المشتركة جاء عالمٌ فريدٌ، فنحن جزءٌ منه حتى العَظْم،... وحتى في جيناتنا”
― نيل شوبين, Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body

“قد نكون أكثر تعقيدًا الآن مما كنا عليه بعد واحد وعشرين يومًا من الإخصاب، ولكننا ما نزال أنبوبًا داخل آخر، وجميعُ أعضائنا مشتقّةٌ من واحدةٍ من الطبقات النسيجيّة الثلاث (germ layers) التي ظهرت في أسبوعنا الثاني بعد الإخصاب”
― نيل شوبين, Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body

“Christianity remains to this day the greatest misfortune of humanity.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Anti-Christ

“In a fascinating study, Barrett (1999) demonstrated that children as young as three
years of age have a sophisticated cognitive understanding of predator-prey encounters. Children from both an industrialized culture and a traditional hunter-horticulturalist culture were
able to spontaneously describe the flow of events in a predator-prey encounter in an ecologically accurate way. Moreover, they understood that after a lion kills a prey, the prey is no longer alive, can no longer eat, and can no longer run and that the dead state is permanent.
This sophisticated understanding of death from encounters with predators appears to be developed by age three to four.”
― David Buss, Evolutionary Psychology: The New Science of the Mind

“I viewed my fellow man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape.”
― Desmond Morris, The Naked Ape

“Some men are born posthumously.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Anti-Christ

“One must not let oneself be misled: they say 'Judge not!' but they send to Hell everything that stands in their way.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Anti-Christ

“...Life does not follow the continuous flow of logical argument and that one often has to risk moving beyond the limits of the rational in order to live life to the fullest.”
― Thomas R. Flynn, Existentialism: A Very Short Introduction

“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.”
― Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man

“As man advances in civilization, and small tribes are united into larger communities, the simplest reason would tell each individual that he ought to extend his social instincts and sympathies to all members of the same nation, though personally unknown to him. This point being once reached, there is only an artificial barrier to prevent his sympathies extending to the men of all nations and races.”
― Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man

“With savages, the weak in body or mind are soon eliminated; and those that survive commonly exhibit a vigorous state of health. We civilised men, on the other hand, do our utmost to check the process of elimination; we build asylums for the imbecile, the maimed, and the sick; we institute poor-laws; and our medical men exert their utmost skill to save the life of every one to the last moment. There is reason to believe that vaccination has preserved thousands, who from a weak constitution would formerly have succumbed to small-pox. Thus the weak members of civilised societies propagate their kind. No one who has attended to the breeding of domestic animals will doubt that this must be highly injurious to the race of man. It is surprising how soon a want of care, or care wrongly directed, leads to the degeneration of a domestic race; but excepting in the case of man himself, hardly any one is so ignorant as to allow his worst animals to breed.

The aid which we feel impelled to give to the helpless is mainly an incidental result of the instinct of sympathy, which was originally acquired as part of the social instincts, but subsequently rendered, in the manner previously indicated, more tender and more widely diffused. Nor could we check our sympathy, if so urged by hard reason, without deterioration in the noblest part of our nature. The surgeon may harden himself whilst performing an operation, for he knows that he is acting for the good of his patient; but if we were intentionally to neglect the weak and helpless, it could only be for a contingent benefit, with a certain and great present evil. Hence we must bear without complaining the undoubtedly bad effects of the weak surviving and propagating their kind; but there appears to be at least one check in steady action, namely the weaker and inferior members of society not marrying so freely as the sound; and this check might be indefinitely increased, though this is more to be hoped for than expected, by the weak in body or mind refraining from marriage.”
― Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man

“Against boredom even gods struggle in vain.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Anti-Christ

“Happiness is the feeling that power increases - that resistance is being overcome.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Anti-Christ

“Every state protects the privileges of the powerful.”
― Colin Ward, Anarchism: A Very Short Introduction

“Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.”
― Dan Brown, Angels & Demons

“There is no such thing as a hopeless situation. Every single circumstances of your life can change! ”
― Rhonda Byrne, The Secret

“People are more complicated than the masks they wear in society.”
― Robert Greene, The Art of Seduction

“Life moves on and so should we”
― Spencer Johnson, Who Moved My Cheese?

“هناك دائما جبنا جديدا أمام عينيك, سواء لاحظته أم لم تلاحظه, وإنك تستمتع به فقط عندما تتخلص من مخاوفك وتخوض المغامرة”
― Spencer Johnson, Who Moved My Cheese?

“Do not leave your reputation to chance or gossip; it is your life's artwork, and you must craft it, hone it, and display it with the care of an artist.”
― Robert Greene, The 48 Laws of Power