Ahmed Rabee

“This invention will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it, because they will not practice their memory. Their trust in writing, produced by external characters which are no part of themselves, will discourage the use of their own memory within them. – Thamus, on the invention of hieroglyphics”
― Keith Houston, The Book: A Cover-to-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time

“لولا أن الكلام يعاد لنفد ! .
( على بن أبى طالب )”
― نجيب سرور, لزوم ما يلزم

“I cannot differentiate between tears and music' (Nietzsche). Whoever is not immediately struck by the profundity of this statement has not lived for a minute in the intimacy of music. I know no other music than that of tears. Born out of the loss of paradise, music gives birth to the symbols of this loss: tears.”
― Emil M. Cioran, Tears and Saints

“the present is but a door through which the future rushes to the past.”
― Camille Flammarion, Urania: Enriched edition. Exploring the Cosmic Unknown: A Journey Through Science and Imagination