El hussam

“الفكر الذي يتحرّر من كلّ تحيّز، هو فكرٌ يتفكك محاكياً تناثُرَ الأشياء التي يريد الإمساك بخا ومحاكياً عدمَ انسجامها. بأفكار سائلة نحن نتمدد على الواقع ونعانقه دون أن نفسّره. وهكذا ندفع غالياً ثمن النظام الذي لم نرغب فيه.”
― إميل سيوران, المياه كلها بلون الغرق

“I like thought which preserves a whiff of flesh and blood, and I prefer a thousand times an idea rising from sexual tension or nervous depression to empty abstraction.”
― Emil Cioran, On the Heights of Despair

“...none of us will have forgotten that lesson. What matters is not the facts but how you discover and think about them: education in the true sense, very different from today's assessment-mad exam culture.”
― Richard Dawkins, An Appetite for Wonder: The Making of a Scientist

“Great joys,why do they bring us sadness? Because there remains from these excesses only a feeling of irrevocable loss and desertion which reaches a high degree of negative intensity. At such moments, instead of a gain, one keenly feels loss. sadness accompanies all those events in which life expends itself. its intensity is equal to its loss. Thus death causes the greatest sadness.”
― Emil Cioran, On the Heights of Despair