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“There's a great difficulty in making
choices if you have any imagination at all. Faced with such a multitude of desireable choices, no one choice
seems satisfactory for very long by comparison with the aggregate desirability of all the rest, though compared to any *one* of the others it would not be found inferior. All equally attractive but none finally inviting.”
― John Barth, The End of the Road

“Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.”
― Hermann Hesse

“They realize at last that change does not mean reform, that change does not mean improvement.”
― Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth

“I have lived on the lip
of insanity, wanting to know reasons,
knocking on a door. It opens.
I've been knocking from the inside.”
― Rumi

“I would rediscover the secret of great communications and great combustions. I would say storm. I would say river. I would say tornado. I would say leaf. I would say tree. I would be drenched by all rains, moistened by all dews. I would roll like frenetic blood on the slow current of the eye of words turned into mad horses into fresh children into clots into curfew into vestiges of temples into precious stones remote enough to discourage miners. Whoever would not understand me would not understand any better the roaring of a tiger.”
― Aime Cesaire

“إن أول خطوة في طريق بناء الذات ، هي أن نقوم دائماً بتقوية هذا الهاجس، أو الخوف الداخلي في ذواتنا من أن نسقط فريسة الاغتراب عن الذات وأعظم مصائب الاغتراب عن الذات عند مفكر ما هو التقليد، والتقليد يعني أن يسجن المرء نفسه في أطر حددت في غيبة منه وهذه الأطر يمكن أن تكون : 1.تقليدية : أي فرضت عليك قبل أن يوجد. وأولئك الذين وضعوا هذه التقاليد كانوا مبتكرين، لكنك تقبلها وأنت غريب عن ذاتك.
2. حينما يسيطر عليك إحساس كاذب أنك قد تخلصت من السنن القديمة الموروثة. ومن الممكن ألا تكون قد اكتسبت هذا الخلاص بنفسك، بل يمكن أن تكون جاذبية التقليد لبعض الصيغ المسيطرة على العصر، أو القوى ذات الوزن الأعظم، أو القدرات الجبارة التي ركزت سيطرتها على العصر قد نقلتك من سجن التقاليد إلى سجنها هي وأنت تحس أن تغير السجن هو الخلاص، في حين أنك انتقلت من نوع من الاغتراب إلى نوع آخر.”
― علي شريعتي, بناء الذات الثورية

“لقد أضاء الصبح لذى عينين”
― امام علی بن ابی طالب / Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib, نهج البلاغه

“I don't want to be a tree; I want to be its meaning.”
― Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red

“Get to know the right, then you would know the people of right. Right Is not measured by its men, but men are measured by their right.”
― Ali Bin Abi Thalib

“إن في جسدك روحاً، ويجب أن تشفق عليها، أعطها شيئاً لتأكله أيها الرئيس، فإذا لم تطعمها تركتك في نصف الطريق”
― نيكوس كازانتزاكي, Zorba the Greek

“When you look into the faces of these quiet creatures who don't know how to tell stories--who are mute, who can't make themselves heard, who fade into the woodwork, who only think of the perfect answer after the fact, after they're back at home, who can never think of a story that anyone else will find interesting--is there not more depth and more meaning in them? You can see every letter of every untold story swimming on their faces, and all the signs of silence, dejection, and even defeat. You can even imagine your own face in those faces, can't you?”
― Orhan Pamuk, The Black Book

“Sometimes I sensed that the books I read in rapid succession had set up some sort of murmur among themselves, transforming my head into an orchestra pit where different musical instruments sounded out, and I would realize that I could endure this life because of these musicales going on in my head.”
― Orhan Pamuk, The New Life

“All my life one of my greatest desires has been to travel-to see and touch unknown countries, to swim in unknown seas, to circle the globe, observing new lands, seas, people, and ideas with insatiable appetite, to see everything for the first time and for the last time, casting a slow, prolonged glance, then to close my eyes and feel the riches deposit themselves inside me calmly or stormily according to their pleasure, until time passes them at last through its fine sieve, straining the quintessence out of all the joys and sorrows.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Report to Greco

“أنا مخلوق مؤقت و ضعيف، مصنوع من طين و أحلام لكني أدرك أن في داخلي تصطخب كل قوى الكون”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, The Saviors of God

“Books, which we mistake for consolation, only add depth to our sorrow. ”
― Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red

“For ruining a fact, do not attack it, defend it badly.”
― Ali Shari'ati

“Tell me then, does love make one a fool or do only fools fall in love?”
― Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red

“Your whole idea about yourself is borrowed--
borrowed from those who have no idea of who they are themselves.”
― Osho

“إن الثقافة الحقيقية يجب أن تختمر في أعماق الشاعر
و عندما تظهر ، تظهر لا على شكل استعراض للعضلات الفكرية
و لكن تنساق بعفوية مع التجربة
بحيث تشعر القارئ أن هذا الشاعر وراءه تجربة طويلة و عميقة
و لكن لا تشعره بذلك بطريقة مفتعلة
و هذا أحد الفروق بين الشاعر العظيم و بين الناظم .”
― غازي بن عبد الرحمن القصيبي, استجوابات غازي القصيبي

“All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.”
― Noam Chomsky

“If you assume that there is no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, that there are opportunities to change things, then there is a possibility that you can contribute to making a better world.”
― Noam Chomsky

“Our ignorance can be divided into problems and mysteries. When we face a problem, we may not know its solution, but we have insight, increasing knowledge, and an inkling of what we are looking for. When we face a mystery, however, we can only stare in wonder and bewilderment, not knowing what an explanation would even look like.”
― Noam Chomsky

“Look for the man who's beaten. Feed him from my food, irrigate him from my water. Soul is for soul. He should be given only one equal hit regardless if I died. I would judge him regardless if I lived.”
― Imam Ali

“Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate."

(Los Angeles Times, July 20, 2003)”
― Edward W. Said

“All knowledge that is about human society, and not about the natural world, is historical knowledge, and therefore rests upon judgment and interpretation. This is not to say that facts or data are nonexistent, but that facts get their importance from what is made of them in interpretation�� for interpretations depend very much on who the interpreter is, who he or she is addressing, what his or her purpose is, at what historical moment the interpretation takes place.”
― Edward Said

“Just as none of us is outside or beyond geography, none of us is completely free from the struggle over geography. That struggle is complex and interesting because it is not only about soldiers and cannons but also about ideas, about forms, about images and imaginings.”
― Edward W. Said, Culture and Imperialism

“الاستحمار هو طلسمة الذهن وإلهاؤه عن الدراية الإنسانية والدراية الاجتماعية و إشغاله بحق أو بباطل، مقدس أو غير مقدس.”
― علي شريعتي, النباهة والاستحمار

“Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are
presented with evidence that works against that belief, the new
evidence cannot be accepted. It would create a feeling that is
extremely uncomfortable, called cognitive dissonance. And because it
is so important to protect the core belief, they will rationalize,
ignore and even deny anything that doesn't fit in with the core belief.”
― Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks

“Mastery of language affords remarkable power.”
― Frantz Fanon

“يا ألله لماذا خلقت الإنسان فى الأرض، وخلقت الحرب؟ لقد غابت عقولنا عن إدراك حكمتك..قالت الملائكة "قالوا أتجعل فيها من يفسد فيها ويسفك الدماء."،"قال إني أعلم ما لا تعلمون" ما الذي نعلمه ولا نعلمه ،يا الله؟”
― يوسف زيدان, محال