Kawyar Muhammad

“Philosophy ... is a science, and as such has no articles of faith; accordingly, in it nothing can be assumed as existing except what is either positively given empirically, or demonstrated through indubitable conclusions.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena

“Going up that river was like travelling back to the earliest beginnings of the world, when vegetation rioted on the earth and the big trees were kings. An empty stream, a great silence, an impenetrable forest. The air was warm, thick, heavy, sluggish. There was no joy in the brilliance of sunshine. The long stretches of the waterway ran on, deserted, into the gloom of overshadowed distances.”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

“Let us sacrifice one day to gain perhaps a whole life.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Be bad, but at least don't be a liar, a deceiver!”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina