Imad

“Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion. ”
― Arthur Koestler

“لنلاحظ استمرارية قدسية العدد اثني عشر بين الديانات التوحيدية الثلاث:أسباط بني إسرائيل الاثناعشر,وتلاميذ المسيح الاثناعشر,ونقباء الرسول الاثناعشر,وأئمة الشيعة الاثناعشر .ولعله من منطلق هذه القدسية عينها جرى تقسيم أشهر السنة اصطلاحا وتواضعا إلى اثني عشر ”
― جورج طرابيشي, المعجزة أو سبات العقل في الإسلام

“Satan, on the contrary, is thin, ascetic and a fanatical devotee of logic. He reads Machiavelli, Ignatius of Loyola, Marx and Hegel; he is cold and unmerciful to mankind, out of a kind of mathematical mercifulness. He is damned always to do that which is most repugnant to him: to become a slaughterer, in order to abolish slaughtering, to sacrifice lambs so that no more lambs may be slaughtered, to whip people with knouts so that they may learn not to let themselves be whipped, to strip himself of every scruple in the name of a higher scrupulousness, and to challenge the hatred of mankind because of his love for it--an abstract and geometric love.”
― Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon

“Creative activity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.”
― Arthur Koestler, Drinkers of Infinity: Essays 1955-1967