Mohab Elsheikh > Mohab's Quotes

“I don't think that you have any insight whatsoever into your capacity for good until you have some well-developed insight into your capacity for evil.”
― Jordan B. Peterson

“The pessimist looks down and hits his head. The optimist looks up and loses his footing. The realist looks forward and adjusts his path accordingly.”
― Robert Kirkman

“Universe always settles the score.”
― House MD

“Rules are just helpful guidelines for stupid people who can’t make up their minds.”
― House

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“I've told you before. You shouldn't judge people based on appearances and your preconceptions.”
― Itachi Uchiha

“To stand up straight with your shoulders back is to accept the terrible responsibility of life, with eyes wide open. It means deciding to voluntarily transform the chaos of potential into the realities of habitable order. It means adopting the burden of self-conscious vulnerability, and accepting the end of the unconscious paradise of childhood, where finitude and mortality are only dimly comprehended. It means willingly undertaking the sacrifices necessary to generate a productive and meaningful reality (it means acting to please God, in the ancient language).”
― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

“قلت لها إن الناس يجب ألا تتزوج إلا لكي تأتي للعالم بمن هو أفضل... طفل أجمل منك، أغنى منك، أقوى منك.
ما جدوى أن يتزوّج الشّقاء من التّعاسة؟ الهباب من الطّين؟
ما الجديد الّذي سنقدّمه للعالم سوى المزيد من البؤس؟”
― أحمد خالد توفيق, يوتوبيا

“عندما تخترق اخر حدود التعقل تشعر بأن العقل يتمدد ليضم لنفسه حدودا اخرى يسيطر عليها الاعتياد و الملل و الرتابة”
― أحمد خالد توفيق, يوتوبيا

“يتوقف الامر على قيمة ما يدافع المرء عنه بالنسبة له و ليس بشكل مطلق”
― أحمد خالد توفيق, يوتوبيا

“لقد جمع بلفور اليهود فى وطن واحد وعدهم به و بهذا أراح العالم منهم

اعتقادى ان هناك وعداً آخر .. ثمة شخص جمع الأوغاد و الخاملين و الأفاقين و فاقدى الهمة من أرجاء الأرض فى وطن قومى واحد هو مصر .. لهذا لا تجد فى اليابان فاقد همة .. لهذا لا تجد فىى ألمانيا وغداً .. لهذا لا تجد فى الأرجنتين أفاقاً .. كلهم هنا يا صاحبى!”
― Ahmed Khaled Towfik, يوتوبيا

“The text has disappeared under the interpretation.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

“The strength of a person's spirit would then be measured by how much 'truth' he could tolerate, or more precisely, to what extent he needs to have it diluted, disguised, sweetened, muted, falsified.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

“He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

“I'm a man catching Stars,And i keep jumping till i catch one,or a big Bird on my way down and repeat”
― Mahmoud Galal Abo-Hamda

“An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.”
― Niels Bohr

“عندما تشم الحريق ولا تنذر من حولك.. فأنت بشكل ما ساهمت فى إشعال الحريق”
― أحمد خالد توفيق, يوتوبيا

“الخروف الذي يفكر ، يصير خطرا على نفسه و على الآخرين”
― أحمد خالد توفيق, يوتوبيا

“One must shed the bad taste of wanting to agree with many. "Good" is no longer good when one's neighbor mouths it. And how should there be a "common good"! The term contradicts itself: whatever can be common always has little value. In the end it must be as it is and always has been: great things remain for the great, abysses for the profound, nuances and shudders for the refined, and, in brief, all that is rare for the rare.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

“Madness is something rare in individuals — but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages, it is the rule.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

“There is no such thing as moral phenomena, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

“Swallow your poison, for you need it badly.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

“And if you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.”
― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

“So, attend carefully to your posture. Quit drooping and hunching around. Speak your mind. Put your desires forward, as if you had a right to them—at least the same right as others. Walk tall and gaze forthrightly ahead. Dare to be dangerous. Encourage the serotonin to flow plentifully through the neural pathways desperate for its calming influence.”
― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos