Hamza Shayk

“There would be no civilization at all if God had not been invented.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each, the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and Milton is, that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men but what they thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series

“O beloved Pan and all ye other gods of this place, grant to me that I be made beautiful in my soul within, and that all external possessions be in harmony with my inner man. May I consider the wise man rich; and may I have such wealth as only the self-restrained man can bear or endure.

-Socrates”
― Plato, Phaedrus

“I think that if the devil does not exist, and man has therefore created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov