Mostafa El-Khouly

“إن المذنب لا يحسد البرئ, إنه يكرهه, ويحس به كأنه ضميره, وكأن الضمير هو الجزء البرئ في قلب المذنب.”
― Yusuf Idris, العيب

“And every science, when we understand it not as an instrument of power and domination but as an adventure in knowledge pursued by our species across the ages, is nothing but this harmony, more or less vast, more or less rich from one epoch to another, which unfurls over the course of generations and centuries, by the delicate counterpoint of all the themes appearing in turn, as if summoned from the void.”
― Alexandre Grothendieck, Récoltes et semailles: Réflexions et témoignage sur un passé de mathématicien.

“Psychology has a long past, yet its real history is short.”
― Hermann Ebbinghaus, Psychology; An Elementary Text-Book

“Do those things that incline you toward the big questions, and avoid the things that would reduce you and make you trivial.”
― George Saunders