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“People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does.”
― Michel Foucault, Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason

“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
― Philip K. Dick, VALIS

“Where there is power, there is resistance.”
― Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction

“عشق را از عشقه گرفته اند و آن گیاهی است که در باغ پدید آید در بن درخت ، اول از بیخ در زمین سخت کند ، پس سر برآرد خود را در درخت می پیچد و همچنان می رود تا جمله درخت را فرا گیرد ، و چنانش در شکنجه کند که نم در درخت نماند ، و هر غذا که به واسطه ی آب و هوا به درخت می رسد به تاراج می برد تا آنگاه که درخت خشک شود .”
― محمود دولت آبادی

“The single simplest reason why human space flight is necessary is this, stated as plainly as possible: keeping all your breeding pairs in one place is a retarded way to run a species.”
― Warren Ellis

“If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“
نفسم گرفت ازين شب در اين حصار بشكن
در اين حصار جادويي روزگار بشكن
چو شقايق از دل سنگ برآر رايت خون
به جنون صلابت صخره ي كوهسار بشكن
تو كه ترجمان صبحي به ترنم و ترانه
لب زخم ديده بگشا صف انتظار بشكن
... سر آن ندارد امشب كه برآيد آفتابي؟
تو خود آفتاب خود باش و طلسم كار بشكن
بسراي تا كه هستي كه سرودن است بودن
به ترنمي دژ وحشت اين ديار بشكن
شب غارت تتاران همه سو فكنده سايه
تو به آذرخشي اين سايه ي ديوسار بشكن
ز برون كسي نيايد چو به ياري تو اينجا
تو ز خويشتن برون آ سپه تتار بشكن
”
― محمدرضا شفیعی کدکنی

“تو را به جای همه کسانی که نشناخته ام دوست می دارم
تو را به خاطر عطر نان گرم
برای برفی که آب می شود دوست می دارم
تو را به جای همه کسانی که دوست نداشته ام دوست می دارم
تو را به خاطر دوست داشتن دوست می دارم
برای اشکی که خشک شد و هیچ وقت نریخت
لبخندی که محو شد و هیچ گاه نشکفت دوست می دارم
تو را به خاطر خاطره ها دوست می دارم
برای پشت کردن به آرزوهای محال
به خاطر نابودی توهم و خیال دوست می دارم
تو را برای دوست داشتن دوست می دارم
تو را به خاطردود لاله های وحشی
به خاطر گونۀ زرین آفتاب گردان
تو را به خاطر دوست داشتن دوست می دارم
تو را به جای همه کسانی که ندیده ام دوست می دارم
تو را برای لبخند تلخ لحظه ها
پرواز شیرین خاطره ها دوست می دارم
تورا به اندازۀ همۀ کسانی که نخواهم دید دوست می دارم
اندازه قطرات باران، اندازۀ ستاره های آسمان دوست می دارم
تو را به اندازه خودت، اندازه آن قلب پاکت دوست می دارم
تو را برای دوست داشتن دوست می دارم
تو را به جای همۀ کسانی که نمی شناخته ام ... دوست می دارم
تو را به جای همۀ روزگارانی که نمی زیسته ام ... دوست می دارم
برای خاطر عطر نان گرم و برفی که آب می شود و
برای نخستین گناه ...
تو را به خاطر دوست داشتن ... دوست می دارم
تو را به جای تمام کسانی که دوست نمی دارم ... دوست می دارم”
― Paul Éluard

“براي کندن گل سرخ اره آورده ايد؟!


چرا اره؟



به گل سرخ بگوييد: تو ، هي تو!

خودش مي افتد و ميميرد . . .”
― بیژن نجدی

“کو دکان ما

جهان تلخ نمی شودباشمشیر

تلخ نمی شود با شلیک و فریادو مشت

تلخی جهان

گلوی گوزن نیست و دندان پلنگ

ومرگ ماهی در حلق مرغان ما هی خوار

مصیبت نیست

تلخ عروسک هائی ست

باشکم پر از تی-ان -تی

که بر ویتنام ریخت

بر کوچه باغ های فلسطین

و مصیبت

شادمانی کو دکان ما ست

که دیده اند عروسکی بر خاک


دویده اند با هلهله و لبخند”
― بیژن نجدی

“آدم از چیزهایی می‌ترسد که می‌شناسد؛ مثل چاقو، مثل تنهایی”
― بیژن نجدی

“فی‌الجمله تو را یک سخن بگویم؛ این مردمان به نفاق خوش‌دل می‌شوند و به راستی غمگین. با مردمان به نفاق می‌باید زیست، تا در میان ایشان با خوشی باشی. همین که راستی آغاز کردی، به کوه و بیابان برون می‌باید رفت که میان خلق راه نیست”
― شمس تبریزی, مقالات شمس

“هر که فاضل تر ، دورتر از مقصود . هر چند فکرش غامص تر ، دورتر است . این کار دل است ، کار پیشانی نیست .”
― شمس‌الدین محمد تبريزی, مقالات شمس

“آخر ، من تو را چه گونه رنجانم ؟ - که اگر بر پای تو بوسه دهم ، ترسم گه مژه ی من درخلد ، پای تو را خسته کند .”
― شمس‌الدین محمد تبريزی, مقالات شمس

“I am for an art that imitates the human, that is comic, if necessary, or violent, or whatever is necessary. I am for an art that takes its form from the lines of life itself, that twists and extends and accumulates and spits and drips, and is heavy and coarse and blunt and sweet and stupid as life itself.”
― Claes Oldenburg

“Come she said
Stay she said
Smile she said
Die she said

I came
I stayed
I smiled
I died

- Vera”
― Nâzım Hikmet, Poems of Nazım Hikmet

“I've never been lonely. I've been in a room -- I've felt suicidal. I've been depressed. I've felt awful -- awful beyond all -- but I never felt that one other person could enter that room and cure what was bothering me...or that any number of people could enter that room. In other words, loneliness is something I've never been bothered with because I've always had this terrible itch for solitude. It's being at a party, or at a stadium full of people cheering for something, that I might feel loneliness. I'll quote Ibsen, "The strongest men are the most alone." I've never thought, "Well, some beautiful blonde will come in here and give me a fuck-job, rub my balls, and I'll feel good." No, that won't help. You know the typical crowd, "Wow, it's Friday night, what are you going to do? Just sit there?" Well, yeah. Because there's nothing out there. It's stupidity. Stupid people mingling with stupid people. Let them stupidify themselves. I've never been bothered with the need to rush out into the night. I hid in bars, because I didn't want to hide in factories. That's all. Sorry for all the millions, but I've never been lonely. I like myself. I'm the best form of entertainment I have. Let's drink more wine!”
― Charles Bukowski

“Up on the Brooklyn Bridge a man is standing in agony, waiting to jump, or waiting to write a poem, or waiting for the blood to leave his vessels because if he advances another foot the pain of his love will kill him.”
― Henry Miller, Black Spring

“the world is the mirror of myself dying.”
― Henry Miller, Black Spring

“The dreamers dream from the neck up, their bodies securely strapped to the electric chair. To imagine a new world is to live it daily, each thought, each glance, each step, each gesture killing and recreating, death always a step in advance. To spit on the past is not enough. To proclaim the future is not enough. One must act as if the past were dead and the future unrealizable. One must act as if the next step were the last, which it is. Each step forward is the last, and with it a world dies, one’s self included. We are here of the earth never to end, the past
never ceasing, the future never beginning, the present never ending. The never-never world which we hold in our hands and see and yet is not ourselves. We are that which is never
concluded, never shaped to be recognized, all there is and yet not the whole, the parts so much greater than the whole that only God the mathematician can figure it out.”
― henry miller, Black Spring

“Patience is not sitting and waiting, it is foreseeing. It is looking at the thorn and seeing the rose, looking at the night and seeing the day. Lovers are patient and know that the moon needs time to become full.”
― Rumi

“And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content that you have known me. You will always be my friend. You will want to laugh with me. And you will sometimes open your window, so, for that pleasure . . . And your friends will be properly astonished to see you laughing as you look up at the sky! Then you will say to them, 'Yes, the stars always make me laugh!' And they will think you are crazy. It will be a very shabby trick that I shall have played on you...”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“Skepticism is thus a resting-place for human reason, where it can reflect upon its dogmatic wanderings and make survey of the region in which it finds itself, so that for the future it may be able to choose its path with more certainty. But it is no dwelling-place for permanent settlement. Such can be obtained only through perfect certainty in our knowledge, alike of the objects themselves and of the limits within which all our knowledge of objects is enclosed.”
― Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

“Political freedom is great. But personal, social, and emotional freedom—when it becomes an ultimate end—absolutely sucks. It leads to a random, busy life with no discernible direction, no firm foundation, and in which, as Marx put it, all that’s solid melts to air. It turns out that freedom isn’t an ocean you want to spend your life in. Freedom is a river you want to get across so you can plant yourself on the other side—and fully commit to something.”
― David Brooks, The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life

“If one group of young people approach adulthood as an aesthetic experience, another group tries to treat adulthood as much as possible like a continuation of school. These students usually went to competitive colleges and tend to come from the upper strata of society. They were good at getting admitted into places, so they apply to companies that have competitive hiring procedures. As students, they enjoyed the borrowed prestige of high-status colleges, so as adults they enjoy the borrowed prestige of high-status companies and service organizations. As students, they were good at winning gold stars, and so they follow a gold-star-winning kind of life when they enter the workforce, and their parents get to brag that they work at Google or Williams & Connolly, or that they go to Harvard Business School.”
― David Brooks, The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life

“living life in a pragmatic, utilitarian manner turns you into a utilitarian pragmatist. The “How do I succeed?” questions quickly eclipse the “Why am I doing this?” questions.”
― David Brooks, The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life

“your conversation consists mostly of descriptions of how busy you are. Suddenly you’re a chilly mortal, going into hyper-people-pleasing mode anytime you’re around your boss. You spend much of your time mentor shopping, trying to find some successful older person who will answer all your questions and solve all your problems.”
― David Brooks, The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life

“The meritocracy defines “community” as a mass of talented individuals competing with one another.”
― David Brooks, The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life

“While it pretends not to, it subliminally sends the message that those who are smarter and more accomplished are actually worth more than those who are not.”
― David Brooks, The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life

“familiar process before they can acknowledge how comprehensive their problem is. First, they deny that there’s something wrong with their life. Then they intensify their efforts to follow the old failing plan. Then they try to treat themselves with some new thrill: They have an affair, drink more, or start doing drugs. Only when all this fails do they admit that they need to change the way they think about life.”
― David Brooks, The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life