Hani Golestaneh

“I think human consciousness is a tragic misstep in human evolution. We became too self aware; nature created an aspect of nature separate from itself. We are creatures that should not exist by natural law. We are things that labor under the illusion of having a self, a secretion of sensory experience and feeling, programmed with total assurance that we are each somebody, when in fact everybody’s nobody. I think the honorable thing for our species to do is deny our programming, stop reproducing, walk hand in hand into extinction, one last midnight, brothers and sisters opting out of a raw deal.”
― Rustin Cohle

“هـیـچ مـلـتـی نـمـی‌تـوانـد تـنـهـا بـه خـاطـر گـذشـتـه خـود زنـدگـی کـنـد و بـدون گـذشـتـه خـود نـیـز نـمـی‌تـوانـد پـایـدار بـمـانـد. مـلـتـی کـه بـه گـذشـتـه خـود وابـسـتـه و دلـبـسـتـه نـبـاشـد، الـزامـاً از صـحـنـه روزگـار نـاپـدیـد خـواهـد شـد.”
― Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, Answer to History

“Happiness consists in getting enough sleep. Just that, nothing more.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

“The conviction that we know others better than they know us—and that we may have insights about them they lack (but not vice versa)—leads us to talk when we would do well to listen and to be less patient than we ought to be when others express the conviction that they are the ones who are being misunderstood or judged unfairly.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know