Gerges Yousef

“Memories are a lot tougher than you might think. Just like the hearts that hold them.”
― Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police

“أن العالم لا يدخل في دائرة المعتقد من غير أن يفقد اعتداله وصوابه، ولا فائدة من لومه على ذلك، فللمعتقد على المرء، أيًّا كان، سلطانٌ قاهر تتعذَّر مقاومته، والمعتقدات دائمة كانت أم مؤقتة هي أكثر العوامل تأثيرًا في حياة الشعوب، والشعب لا يتم حكمه بمبادئ حقيقية، بل بمعتقدات يؤمن بأنها حقيقية.”
― Gustave Le Bon, ‫الآراء والمعتقدات‬

“man does not stand forever, his nullification.
they all seek their own existence and to assure their existence against that complete atomization into nothingness or into meaninglessness. Man cannot stand a meaningless life.”
― Carl Jung

“See," says he, "you who deny a providence, how many have been saved by their prayers to the Gods."
"Ay," says Diagoras, "I see those who were saved, but where are those painted who were shipwrecked”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero