Hamid

“Oh, you wretches who feel all this, who, even as I,
cannot allow yourselves to speak of man’s being
here for a purpose, who, even as I, are so utterly
in the clutch of the Nothing that governs us, so
profoundly aware that we are born for nothing,
that we love a nothing, believe in nothing, work
ourselves to death for nothing only that little by
little we may pass over into nothing – how can I
help it if your knees collapse when you think of it
seriously? Many a time have I, too, sunk into these
bottomless thoughts, and cried out: Why do you lay
the axe to my root, pitiless spirit? – and still I am
here.”
― Friedrich HölderlinHölderlin , Hyperion / Empedokles

“Marriage as a long conversation. - When marrying you should ask yourself this question: do you believe you are going to enjoy talking with this woman into your old age? Everything else in a marriage is transitory, but most of the time that you're together will be devoted to conversation.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

“نحن قمنا بذلك فعلاً . اخذنا أعظم معرفة يمكن للعلم أن يقدمها وصنعنا نحن البشر الذين نفتقر إلى الحكمة سفناً حربية . وطوربيدات ، وقنابل ذرية جديدة . الله لم يغير هبات الطبيعة ويفسدها لكن نحن فعلنا ذلك”
― Charles Pellegrino

“There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river.”
― Marina Tsvetaeva