Ahmad

“I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think”
― Socrates

“Tarih yazıcılığı özgürleştirmiyorsa zulme hizmet ediyordur”
― Cemal Kafadar, Kendine Ait Bir Roma: Diyar-ı Rum’da Kültürel Coğrafya ve Kimlik Üzerine

“The art of not reading is a very important one. It consists in not taking an interest in whatever may be engaging the attention of the general public at any particular time. When some political or ecclesiastical pamphlet, or novel, or poem is making a great commotion, you should remember that he who writes for fools always finds a large public. A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms

“سَهِرَتْ أَعينٌ، وَنَامَتْ عُيونُ
في أمورٍ تكونُ أو لاتكونُ
فَادْرَأ الهمَّ مَا استَطعْتَ عَنْ النَّفْــس
فحملا نكَ الهمومَ جنونُ
إن رَّباَّ كفاكَ بالأمسِ ما كانَ
سَيَكْفِيكَ في غَدٍ مَا يَكُونُ”
― محمد بن إدريس الشافعي, ديوان الإمام الشافعي