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Humiliated and Insulted

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Jan 31, 2026 07:30AM

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‫أيها الولد‬ by Abu Hamid al-Ghazali

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سألتني عن الإخلاص، و هو أن تكون أعمالك كلّها لله تعالى و لا يرتاح قلبك بمحامد النّاس و لا تبالي بمذمّتهم. و اعلم أنّ الرّياء يتولّد من تعظيم الخلق. و علاجه أن تراهم مسخّرين تحت القدرة و تحسبهم كالجمادات في عدم قدرة إيصال الرّاحة و المشقّة ...more

Ali’s Quotes

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning

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“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free”
― Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Elective Affinities

tags: perception, politics, power, slavery

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“We feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Welcome to the Desert of the Real: Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates

tags: freedom, language

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“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.”
― Stephen Jay Gould, The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History

tags: opportunity

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