Simo Ibourki > Simo's Quotes

“‎Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning... Anyone can start over and make a new ending.”
― Chico Xavier

“I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.”
― John Lennon

“God save us from religion.”
― David Eddings

“Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.”
― Lenny Bruce

“There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“Once upon a time, I dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I was conscious only of my happiness as a butterfly, unaware that I was myself. Soon I awaked, and there I was, veritably myself again. Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man.”
― Zhuangzi, The Butterfly as Companion: Meditations on the First Three Chapters of the Chuang Tzu

“Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who have no opinion — and who, therefore, in the next instant (when it is evident that the minority is the stronger) assume its opinion… while truth again reverts to a new minority.”
― Soren Kierkegaard

“God has no religion.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“I don't think there is any truth. There are only points of view. ”
― Allen Ginsberg

“I have accepted fear as part of life – specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back....”
― Erica Jong

“If God wants something from me, he would tell me. He wouldn't leave someone else to do this, as if an infinite being were short on time. And he would certainly not leave fallible, sinful humans to deliver an endless plethora of confused and contradictory messages. God would deliver the message himself, directly, to each and every one of us, and with such clarity as the most brilliant being in the universe could accomplish. We would all hear him out and shout "Eureka!" So obvious and well-demonstrated would his message be. It would be spoken to each of us in exactly those terms we would understand. And we would all agree on what that message was.”
― Richard Carrier, Why I Am Not a Christian: Four Conclusive Reasons to Reject the Faith

“لا تنظروا إلى صيام أحد ولا إلى صلاته ولكن انظروا إلى من إذا حدث صدق وإذا ائتمن أدى وإذا أشفى -أي هم بالمعصية -ورع”
― عمر بن الخطاب

“الواضخ ان المصالح الاقتصادية ومصالح الطبقات الغنيه وجهت مواقف الفقهاء في مسالة الاسترقاق , ولا تغرننا الشعارات الي ترفع في هذا الصدد من قبيل ان الاسلام قد حرر العبيد واستحضار القول المنسوب الى عمر : متى استعبدتم الناس وقد ولدتهم امهاتهم احرارا
فقد بقي ذلك على مر تاريخ الفقه الاسلامي امرا نظريا اما الناحية العمليه فتختلف اختلافا تاما”
― نادر حمامي, إسلام الفقهاء

“ان تعامل الفقهاء مع النص يمثل محددا اساسيا لاسلامهم فقد اصبح النص اداة لتبرير الاحكام اكثر من كونه مصدرا لاستنباط الاحكام بمعنى ان الحكم موجود في الواقع ولكن الفقيه يبحث له عن مستند نصي لاكسابه سمه متعاليه ولعل ذلك ادى الى استعمال النص في تبرير حكم ونقيضه وهذا طبيعي باعتبار ان النص القرآني كغيره من النصوص الدينية قابل لعدد غير محدود من التأويلات فالنص القرآني على حد العبارة المأثورة عن علي بن ابي طالب ( خط مسطور بين دفتين لا ينطق . انما ينطق به الرجال )”
― نادر حمامي, إسلام الفقهاء

“ملعون في دين الرحمن... من يسجن شعباً.. من يخنق فكراً.. من يرفع سوطاً.. من يُسكت رأياً.. من يبني سجناً.. من يرفع رايات الطغيان.. ملعون في كل الأديان.. من يُهدر حق الإنسان.. حتى لو صلّى أو زكّى وعاش العُمرَ مع القرآن”
― جمال الدين الأفغاني

“Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed. There is no need for the whole universe to take up arms to crush him: a vapour, a drop of water is enough to kill him. but even if the universe were to crush him, man would still be nobler than his slayer, because he knows that he is dying and the advantage the universe has over him. The universe knows none of this.”
― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“مَن يَصِل إلى اليقين إنْ تعاظمتْ لديه الشكوك؟”
― عبد السلام إبراهيم, عرش الديناري

“Man is not the enemy here, but the fellow victim. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves.”
― Betty Friedan