Rania Moudarres

“Reason is the enemy of all greatness: reason is the enemy of nature: nature is great, reason is small. I mean that it will be more or less difficult for a man to be great the more he is governed by reason, that few can be great (and in art and poetry perhaps no one) unless they are governed by illusions.”
― Giacomo Leopardi

“My language is the sum total of myself.”
― Charles S. Peirce

“But it is on occasions like this that I always think how different everything would be if we in the Orient had developed our own science. Suppose for instance that we had developed our own physics and chemistry: would not the techniques and industries based on them have taken a different form, would not our myriads of everyday gadgets, our medicines, the products of our industrial art - would they not have suited our national temper better than they do?”
― Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, In Praise of Shadows

“Вы думаете, что если человек цитирует Зурзмансора или Гегеля, то это — о! А такой человек смотрит на Вас и видит кучу дерьма, ему Вас не жалко, потому что Вы и по Гегелю дерьмо, и по Зурзмансору тоже дерьмо. Дерьмо по определению. А что за границами этого дерьма — определения — его не интересует”
― Arkady Strugatsky, The Ugly Swans