Omar Amer

“There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or even lived in a way which was so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory. But he shouldn’t regret this entirely, because he cannot be certain that he has indeed become a wise man – so far as any of us can be wise – unless he has passed through all the fatuous or unwholesome incarnations by which that ultimate stage must be reached. I know there are young people . . . whose teachers have instilled in them a nobility of mind and moral refinement from the very beginning of their schooldays. They perhaps have nothing to retract when they look back upon their lives; they can, if they choose, publish a signed account of everything they have ever said or done; but they are poor creatures, feeble descendants of doctrinaires, and their wisdom is negative and sterile. We cannot be taught wisdom, we have to discover it for ourselves by a journey which no one can undertake for us, an effort which no one can spare us.”
― Alain de Botton, How Proust Can Change Your Life

“أحسن تسلية تضيع بها وقت فراغك أن تجلس وحدك في عزلة و تغمض عينيك و تذاكر العواطف التي شعرت بها و كل الدوافع التي تأرجحت بينها و كل الأفعال التي أتيتها و الكلمات التي قلتها و النيات التي أخفيتها ثم تحاول أن تصل إلى حقيقتك و تعرف واقعك و ستجد أن واقعك سيدهشك و يفاجئك كأنه واقع رجل آخر لا تعرفه ..”
― مصطفي محمود

“Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“ التعليم وحده لا يرقى بالناس و لا يجعلهم أفضل مما هم عليه أو أكثر حرية، أو أكثر إنسانية. إن العلم يجعل الناس أكثر قدرة، أكثر كفاءة، أكثر نفعًا للمجتمع. لقد برهن التاريخ على أن الرجال المتعلمين و الشعوب المتعلمة يمكن التلاعب بهم بل يمكن أن يكونوا أيضًا خدامًا للشر، ربما أكثر كفاءة من الشعوب المتخلفة. ”
― علي عزت بيجوفيتش, الإسلام بين الشرق والغرب