Mjaballah

“A book is an attempt to make through permanent and to contribute to the great conversation conducted by authors of the past. […] The telegraph is suited only to the flashing of messages, each to be quickly replaced by a more up-to-date message. Facts push other facts into and then out of consciousness at speeds that neither permit nor require evaluation. (70)”
― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

“If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?”
― Rumi

“The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.”
― Richard P. Feynman

“You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.”
― Alexander Pope, Moral Essays