Avicenne Alsgoor_Hussein

“There is a philosophy by which many people live their lives, and it is this: life is a shit sandwich, but the more bread you've got, the less shit you have to eat.

These people are often selfish brats as kids, and they don't get better with age: think of the shifty-eyed smarmy asshole from the sixth form who grow up to be a merchant banker, or an estate agent, or one of the Conservative Party funny-handshake mine's a Rolex brigade.

(This isn't to say that all estate agents, or merchant bankers, or conservatives are selfish, but that these are ways of life that provide opportunities of a certain disposition to enrich themselves at the expense of others. Bear with me.)

There is another philosophy by which people live their lives, and it goes thus: You will do as I say or I will hurt you.

. . . Let me draw you a Venn diagram with two circles on it, denoting sets of individuals. They overlap: the greedy ones and the authoritarian ones. Let's shade in the intersecting area in a different color and label it: dangerous. Greed isn't automatically dangerous on its won, and petty authoritarians aren't usually dangerous outside their immediate vicinity -- but when you combine the two, you get gangsters and dictators and hate-spewing preachers.”
― Charles Stross, The Fuller Memorandum

“خلاصة القول أني كلما اجتهدت لفحص جوهر اللامتناهي زدته غموضاً وعجزت أكثر فأكثر عن تصوره. إلا أنه بالنسبة لي موجود، وهذا كافٍ. كلما تراجع فهمي زاد خشوعي.”
― جان جاك روسو, دين الفطرة

“منذ نزلت جوهرة الروح والتصقت بصدفة البدن ...كان الإنسان الذي صاغه الله من ماء الحياة ,وبعد أن تكاملت جوهرة الوجود ... طارت مخلِّفة ً الصدفة وراءها لتقتعد مكانها في دُرة تاج المُلك.”
― ابن سينا

“أدوات مثل تويتر وفيسبوك «تمنح حق الكلام لفيالق من الحمقى، ممن كانوا يتكلمون في البارات فقط بعد تناول كأس من النبيذ، دون أن يتسببوا بأي ضرر للمجتمع، وكان يتم إسكاتهم فوراً. أما الآن فلهم الحق بالكلام مثلهم مثل من يحمل جائزة نوبل. إنه غزو البلهاء».”
― أمبرتو إيكو