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The Paradoxical Commandments
People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
Love them anyway.
If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Do good anyway.
If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.
The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.
Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway.
The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
Think big anyway.
People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
Fight for a few underdogs anyway.
What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.
People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
Help people anyway.
Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth.
Give the world the best you have anyway.”
― The Silent Revolution: Dynamic Leadership in the Student Council
People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
Love them anyway.
If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Do good anyway.
If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.
The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.
Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway.
The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
Think big anyway.
People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
Fight for a few underdogs anyway.
What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.
People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
Help people anyway.
Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth.
Give the world the best you have anyway.”
― The Silent Revolution: Dynamic Leadership in the Student Council
“الاستحمار هو طلسمة الذهن وإلهاؤه عن الدراية الإنسانية والدراية الاجتماعية و إشغاله بحق أو بباطل، مقدس أو غير مقدس.”
― النباهة والاستحمار
― النباهة والاستحمار
“إننا اليوم نمارس الحداثة الغربية ، على مستوى "تحسين" الحياة اليومية ووسائله _ لكننا نرفضها على مستوى "تحسين" الفكر والعقل ، ووسائل هذا التحسين ، أي أننا نأخذ المنجزات ونرفض المباديء العقلية التي أدت إلى ابتكارها . إنه التلفيق الذي ينخر الإنسان العربي من الداخل .ولئن كان علامة على انهيار الفكر الفلسفي العربي في مرحلة التوفيق بين الدين والفلسفة ، أي بين الإسلاموية واليونانوية فإنه اليوم يبدو إيذانًا بانهيار الشخصية العربية ذاتها”
― الثابت و المتحول: صدمة الحداثة وسلطة الموروث الديني
― الثابت و المتحول: صدمة الحداثة وسلطة الموروث الديني
“تلك المتاهة هي صورة من هذا العالم: فسيحة لمن يريد الدخول ، ضيقة لمن يرغب في الخروج”
― The Name of the Rose
― The Name of the Rose
“ اكتب يا هيبا ، فمن يكتب لن يموت أبداً”
― عزازيل
― عزازيل
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