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“Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer , Studies in Pessimism: The Essays

“what matter it if a man gaineth the whole world and loseth his own soul?”
― Theodore Dreiser, An American Tragedy

“How much truth does a spirit endure, how much truth does it dare?”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo

“To get up in the morning, in the fullness of youth, and open a book--now that’s what I call vicious!”
― Friedrich Nietzsche , Ecce Homo

“Another thing is war. I am naturally warlike. Attacking is one of my instincts. Being able to be an enemy, being an enemy — these require a strong nature, perhaps; in any case every strong nature presupposes them. It needs resistances, so it seeks resistance: aggressive pathos is just as integrally necessary to strength as the feeling of revenge and reaction is to weakness. Woman, forinstance, is vengeful: that is a condition of her weakness, as is her sensitivity to other people’s afflictions. — The strength of anattacker can in a way be gauged by the opposition he requires; allgrowth makes itself manifest by searching out a more powerful opponent — or problem: for a philosopher who is warlike challenges problems to duels, too. The task is not to master all resistances, but only those against which one has to pit one’s entire strength, suppleness, and mastery-at-arms — opponents who are equal...”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo

“Saying yes to life, even in its strangest and hardest problems.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo

“Every acquisition, every step forward in knowledge is the result of courage, of severity toward oneself, of cleanliness with respect to oneself.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo

“I attack only things that are triumphant — if necessary, I wait until they become triumphant.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo

“عبارة "العقل الحر" لا يمكن أن تفهم هنا إلا بهذا المعنى: إنه عقل محرر قد استعاد تملكه بذاته”
― Friedrich Nietzsche , Ecce Homo

“I fail to remember ever having made an effort — no trace of struggle is detectable in my life, I am the opposite of a heroic nature. To “want” something, to “strive” for something, to have an “end,” a “desire” in mind — I know none of this from my experience. Even at this moment I look out upon my future — a broad future! — as upon a smooth sea: no desire ripples upon it.
Not in the least do I want anything to be different from what it is; I myself do not want to be any different ... But thus I have always lived.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo

“The woman, the more of a woman she is, fights tooth and nail against rights in general: after all, the natural state of things, the eternal war between the sexes, gives her the highest rank by far. — Did anyone have ears for my definition of love? It is the only one worthy of a philosopher. — Love — its method is warfare, its foundation is the deadly hatred between the sexes. — Did anyone hear my answer to the question of how to cure – ‘redeem’ – a woman? Give her a baby. Women need children, the man is only ever the means: thus spoke Zarathustra.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo

“You could read a dozen large tomes on the history of Islam from its very beginnings and you still wouldn't understand what is going on in Algeria. But read 30 pages on colonialism and decolonisation and then you'll understand quite a lot.”
― Amin Maalouf, In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong

“There was no doubt about it: if you wanted to succeed you had to go away. You could do nothing in Dublin.”
― James Joyce, Dubliners

“Some of it is ugly, obscene and bestial, some of it is pure and holy and spiritual: all of it is myself.”
― James Joyce, Selected Letters of James Joyce

“God spoke to you by so many voices but you would not hear.”
― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“He watched the scene and thought of life; and (as always happened when he thought of life) he became sad. A gentle melancholy took possession of him. He felt how useless it was to struggle against fortune, this being the burden of wisdom which the ages had bequeathed him.”
― James Joyce, Dubliners

“It was very big to think about everything and everywhere. Only God
could do that.”
― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“He is cured by faith who is sick of fate.”
― James Joyce, Finnegans Wake

“Longest way round is the shortest way home.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

“Many will call me an adventurer, and that I am...only one of a different sort: one who risks his skin to prove his truths.”
― Ernesto Guevara

“The first duty of a revolutionary is to be educated.”
― Che Guevara

“I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.”
― Ernesto "Che" Guevara

“Silence is argument carried out by other means.”
― Ernesto "Che" Guevara

“At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.”
― Ernesto "Che" Guevara

“We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.”
― Che Guevara

“Every day People straighten up the hair, why not the heart?”
― che guevara

“إن الطريق مظلم وحالك فإذا لم تحترق أنت وأنا فمن سينير الطريق”
― Che Guevara

“The revolution is made through human beings, but individuals must forge their revolutionary spirit day by day”
― Ernesto "Che" Guevara

“Neoliberalism makes citizens into consumers. The freedom of the citizen yields to the passivity of the consumer. As consumers, today’s voters have no real interest in politics –in actively shaping the community. They possess neither the will nor the ability to participate in communal, political action. They react only passively to politics: grumbling and complaining, as consumers do about a commodity or service they do not like. Politicians and parties follow this logic of consumption too. They have to ‘deliver’. In the process, they become nothing more than suppliers; their task is to satisfy voters who are consumers or customers.”
― Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power