Onur Bal

“The eternal is that which does absolutely not necessitate “it is not” (inna l- azalī huwa
alladhī lam yajib “laysa huwa” muṭlaqan); hence, as far as generation is concerned,
the eternal has no “before” to its existence (li- hawiyyatihi); the eternal is that whose
subsistence is not through something else; the eternal has no cause (ʿilla); the eternal
has no substrate and no predicate, no agent and no reason (sabab)— I mean that for
the sake of which it would exist, for there are no causes other than the ones previously
mentioned. (OEuvres 27.8– 11; Rasāʾil 1:113.1– 4)”
― Ebu Yusuf Yakub bin İshak el-Sebbah el-Kindî

“Önünde uzanan şey, ondan pusuya yatarak saklanan şey, adanın ormanlarında ve yamaçlarında onu bekleyen şey, korkuydu. Ged de doğruca onun üzerine gitti.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea

“We should not be ashamed of appreciating the truth and acquiring the truth wherever it comes from, even if it comes from remote races and different nations. For
him who seeks the truth, nothing is worthier than the truth, and the truth is neither
belittled nor demeaned by him who reports it or by him who brings it. Nobody is
demeaned by the truth, but everybody is ennobled by the truth.
We would do well—since we are striving to perfect our species and in this the truth
resides—in this book to stick to our habits in all the subjects [we have dealt with]: to
present what the ancients have dealt with completely, in the most straightforward
and easiest way for those who will follow this path, and to complete what they did
not deal with completely, following, in so doing, the custom of the language and the
usages of the time, to the best of our ability”
― Al-Kindi

“Kaç kez,
sana şimdi gelme, dedim

Hermes, ruhları
yuvalarına götüren kılavuz:
ama mutsuzum, ölmek,
Akheron boyunda açan
ıslak nilüferleri
görmek istiyorum şimdi”
― Sappho, Nedir Gene Deli Gönlünü Çelen