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“إن أي نبي لا بد أن تهزم نبوته إذا انتصر. إن نبوته حينئذٍ لا بدّ أن تتحول من نبوة مسالمة إلى نبوة محاربة، ومن نبوة واعظة ومتسامحة وغافرة إلى نبوة باطشة ومعاقبة. إنه لا يوجد من يقاوم النبوة ويقسو عليها في مقاومته ومن يخاف منها مثل النبي إذا انتصر. إنه لا أحد يقتل الأنبياء أو يقتل معاني الأنبياء مثلما يقتلهم ويقتلها النبي إذا حكم. إن النبي الحاكم هو أكبر قاتل لذاته. إن النبي، أي نبي، إذا انتصر فلا بدّ أن ينتقل من نبي حزين وباك ومصل من أجل الخطايا والآلام والصغائر التي يعيشها الناس وتعيشها جميع الأشياء إلى زعيم أو نبي حاكم باطش سفاك معين بالخطايا والأخطاء وبالآلام والصغائر.”
― الانسان يعصي ..لهذا يصنع الحضارات
― الانسان يعصي ..لهذا يصنع الحضارات
“If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?
During the life of any heart this line keeps changing place; sometimes it is squeezed one way by exuberant evil and sometimes it shifts to allow enough space for good to flourish. One and the same human being is, at various ages, under various circumstances, a totally different human being. At times he is close to being a devil, at times to sainthood. But his name doesn't change, and to that name we ascribe the whole lot, good and evil.
Socrates taught us: 'Know thyself!”
― The Gulag Archipelago
During the life of any heart this line keeps changing place; sometimes it is squeezed one way by exuberant evil and sometimes it shifts to allow enough space for good to flourish. One and the same human being is, at various ages, under various circumstances, a totally different human being. At times he is close to being a devil, at times to sainthood. But his name doesn't change, and to that name we ascribe the whole lot, good and evil.
Socrates taught us: 'Know thyself!”
― The Gulag Archipelago
“I wanted to believe anything so that I wouldn’t have to face the future alone. The problem with wanting is that it makes us weak.”
― Ruin and Rising
― Ruin and Rising
“Maybe love was superstition, a prayer we said to keep the truth of loneliness at bay.”
― Ruin and Rising
― Ruin and Rising
“For goodness sake,' they'll cry, 'you cannot argue against it--two times two is four! Nature doesn't consult you; it doesn't give a damn for your wishes or whether its laws please or do not please you. You must accept it as it is, and hence accept all consequences. A wall is indeed a wall. ...' And so on and so forth. Good God, what do I care about the laws of nature and arithmetic if, for one reason or another, I don't like these laws, including the 'two times two is four'? Of course, I cannot break through this wall with my head if I don't have the strength to break through it, but neither will I accept it simply because I face a stone wall and am not strong enough.”
― Notes From The Underground
― Notes From The Underground
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