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“-أرسطو:"دعكِ من الامتحان .. قولي لي بشكلٍ عام: ما الذي خرجتِ به من الفلسفة؟"

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-عبير:"لا شيء في الواقع .. عندا جئت إلى هنا كنت أطلب إجابة بسيطة عن مشكلة بسيطة .. كيف أنتصر على الألم الذي أشعر به لأن زوجي تخلى عني .. وجدت (أفلاطون) يطالبني بأن أنغمس في الهندسة وحساب المثلثات كي أنسى .. ووجدت (ديوجين) يطالبني بأن أعيش في برميل وأعوي كالكلب .. ووجدت (أبيقور) يطالبني بأن أشرب الخمر وألهو قدر الإمكان .. أنت -(أرسطو)- اقترحت أن أنتظرو أصبر إلى أن تصعد روحي وتعيش بين النجوم .. (كامو) اقترح أن أنتحر .. و(سارتر) يطالبني بتحمل مسئولياتي ، و(هيجل) يردي أن أمزج بين الطريحة و النقيضة وأن أنضم لجمعيةٍ ما ليكون لحياتي معنى .. و(كانط) يطالبني بالتجريب .. (نيتشه) و(شوبنهاور) يريان أني كائن حقير لا نفع له إلا خديعة الرجال .. (فيثاغورس) يرى أن الموسيقا هي الحل ، خاصةً لو أغرقت آلامي في الرقم (عشرة) .. كل هذا مع الكثير من المشي وتسلق الجبال والجري في شوارع (أثينا) و(باريس) .. لقد أتعبتني الفلسفة .. أتعبتني جداً..”
― أحمد خالد توفيق, فلاسفة في حسائي

“We are all born mad. Some remain so.”
― Samuel Beckett

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”
― Plato

“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.”
― Plato

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
― Socrates

“There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.”
― Socrates

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“Reading brings us unknown friends”
― Honore de Balzac

“It may be that we are puppets-puppets controlled by the strings of society. But at least we are puppets with perception, with awareness. And perhaps our awareness is the first step to our liberation. (1974)

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― Stanley Milgram

“It comes from history. It comes from the record of the Inquisition, persecuting heretics and torturing Jews and all that sort of stuff; and it comes from the other side, too, from the Protestants burning the Catholics. It comes from the insensate pursuit of innocent and crazy old women, and from the Puritans in America burning and hanging the witches — and it comes not only from the Christian church but also from the Taliban. Every single religion that has a monotheistic god ends up by persecuting other people and killing them because they don't accept him. Wherever you look in history, you find that. It’s still going on.”
― Philip Pullman

“Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.”
― H.L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy

“The objection to Puritans is not that they try to make us think as they do, but that they try to make us do as they think.”
― H.L. Mencken

“The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable.”
― H. L. Mencken

“...Puritanism has made life itself impossible. More than art, more than estheticism, life represents beauty in a thousand variations; it is indeed, a gigantic panorama of eternal change. Puritanism, on the other hand, rests on a fixed and immovable conception of life; it is based on the Calvinistic idea that life is a curse, imposed upon man by the wrath of God. In order to redeem himself man must do constant penance, must repudiate every natural and healthy impulse, and turn his back on joy and beauty.

Puritanism celebrated its reign of terror in England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, destroying and crushing every manifestation of art and culture. It was the spirit of Puritanism which robbed Shelley of his children, because he would not bow to the dicta of religion. It was the same narrow spirit which alienated Byron from his native land, because that great genius rebelled against the monotony, dullness, and pettiness of his country. It was Puritanism, too, that forced some of England's freest women into the conventional lie of marriage: Mary Wollstonecraft and, later, George Eliot. And recently Puritanism has demanded another toll--the life of Oscar Wilde. In fact, Puritanism has never ceased to be the most pernicious factor in the domain of John Bull, acting as censor of the artistic expression of his people, and stamping its approval only on the dullness of middle-class respectability.”
― Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays

“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“The value of a thing sometimes lies not in what one attains with it, but in what one pays for it - what it costs us.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“L'amour est une catastrophe magnifique : savoir que l'on fonce dans un mur, et accélérer quand même.”
― Frédéric Beigbeder, L'amour dure trois ans

“Le coeur a ses raisons que le raison ne connaît point.”
― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“أي صراع يحصل بين بين الشعب والسلطة ينتهي دائما بهزيمة الشعب ، السلطة في مصر ممكن تفشل في أي شئ إلا في إخضاع المصريين”
― علاء الأسواني, جمهورية كأن

“ليس من المهم فعليا أن تتزوج عن حب أو بشكل تقليدي.. المهم أن يكون هنالك حب بعد الزواج..وعلامة هذا الحب أن تكثر هذه المشاحنات في بدايات الزواج.. المشاكل ليست عكس الحب..

عكس الحب هو الإهمال”
― ديك الجن, مأمون القانوني

“In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer...”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Kingdom of God Is Within You

“I'm in love with you," he said quietly.

"Augustus," I said.

"I am," he said. He was staring at me, and I could see the corners of his eyes crinkling. "I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I'm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have, and I am in love with you.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Whoever wants to know something about me, they should look attentively at my pictures and there seek to recognise what I am and what I want.”
― Gustav Klimt

“Love is a serious mental disease.”
― Plato, Phaedrus

“You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim once—there has to be a limit”
― Edward Said

“Until the lion learns how to write, every story will glorify the hunter.”
― J. Nozipo Maraire

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“The act of writing, it seems to me, makes up a shelter, allows space to what would otherwise be hidden, crossed out, mutilated. Sometimes writing can work toward a reparation, making a sheltering space for the mind. Yet it feeds off ruptures, tears in what might otherwise seem a seamless, oppressive fabric.”
― Meena Alexander, The Shock of Arrival: Reflections on Postcolonial Experience

“This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature.”
― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending