Maziyar Yf

“پیش از شما
به‌سان شما
بی‌شمارها
با تار عنکبوت نوشتند روی باد
کین دولت خجسته‌ی جاوید زنده باد”
― محمد رضا شفیعی کدکنی

“...وقتی آدم رو بازجوی میکنن، باید خیال کنه که یه سر نیزه زیر چونش هست. اگه بگه آره نوک سرنیزه فرو میره و اگه بگه نه، هیج خطری متوجهش نیست.”
― Ahmad Mahmoud, همسایه‌ها

“Moreover, dissonance-evoking situations have been found to evoke a general negative affect without also evoking increased self-directed negative affect (Elliot & Devine, 1994) or decreased state self-esteem (E. Harmon-Jones, 2000a).”
― Eddie Harmon-Jones, Cognitive Dissonance: Reexamining a Pivotal Theory in Psychology

“Since there is no one else to praise me, I will praise myself—will say that I have never tampered with a single tooth in my thought machine, such as it is. There are teeth missing, God knows—some I was born without, teeth that will never grow. And other teeth have been stripped by the clutchless shifts of history—But never have I willfully destroyed a tooth on a gear of my thinking machine. Never have I said to myself, “This fact I can do without.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night