Ayyuce Demirbas > Ayyuce's Quotes

“Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.”
― Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species

“You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“How do you cause people to believe in an imagined order such as Christianity, democracy or capitalism? First, you never admit that the order is imagined.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“According to Buddhism, the root of suffering is neither the feeling of pain nor of sadness nor even of meaninglessness. Rather, the real root of suffering is this never-ending and pointless pursuit of ephemeral feelings, which causes us to be in a constant state of tension, restlessness and dissatisfaction. Due to this pursuit, the mind is never satisfied. Even when experiencing pleasure, it is not content, because it fears this feeling might soon disappear, and craves that this feeling should stay and intensify. People are liberated from suffering not when they experience this or that fleeting pleasure, but rather when they understand the impermanent nature of all their feelings, and stop craving them. This is the aim of Buddhist meditation practices. In meditation, you are supposed to closely observe your mind and body, witness the ceaseless arising and passing of all your feelings, and realise how pointless it is to pursue them. When the pursuit stops, the mind becomes very relaxed, clear and satisfied. All kinds of feelings go on arising and passing – joy, anger, boredom, lust – but once you stop craving particular feelings, you can just accept them for what they are. You live in the present moment instead of fantasising about what might have been. The resulting serenity is so profound that those who spend their lives in the frenzied pursuit of pleasant feelings can hardly imagine it. It is like a man standing for decades on the seashore, embracing certain ‘good’ waves and trying to prevent them from disintegrating, while simultaneously pushing back ‘bad’ waves to prevent them from getting near him. Day in, day out, the man stands on the beach, driving himself crazy with this fruitless exercise. Eventually, he sits down on the sand and just allows the waves to come and go as they please. How peaceful!”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“In 2012 about 56 million people died throughout the world; 620,000 of them died due to human violence (war killed 120,000 people, and crime killed another 500,000). In contrast, 800,000 committed suicide, and 1.5 million died of diabetes. Sugar is now more dangerous than gunpowder.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow

“People are usually afraid of change because they fear the unknown. But the single greatest constant of history is that everything changes.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow

“When I get sad, I stop being sad and be awesome instead.”
― Barney Stinson

“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.”
― Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man

“A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.”
― Charles Darwin, The Life & Letters of Charles Darwin

“If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.”
― Charles Darwin, The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, 1809–82

“Men like to think they're saving some brain-dead woman who's got herself into a scrape. All I had to do was step aside and let him play the hero!”
― Tara Westover, Educated

“Erkekler zora düşmüş, kafası durmuş bir kadını kurtarma fikrine zaten bayılır. Tek yapmam gereken kenara çekilmek ve kahramanı oynama fırsatını ona vermekti!”
― Tara Westover, Educated

“Bedelsiz hiçbir şey yoktur. Mutluluğun bedelinin ödenmesi gerekir. Siz bu bedeli ödüyorsunuz Bay Watson; ödüyorsunuz, çünkü güzellikle fazla ilgileniyorsunuz. Ben de gerçekle fazla ilgilenmiştim; ben de bedelini ödedim.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“Fakat istikrar karşılığında ödememiz gereken bedel işte bu. Mutluluk ile eskiden insanların güzel sanatlar dediği şey arasında seçim yapmak gerekiyor. Biz, güzel sanatlardan fedakârlıkta bulunduk. Onun yerine duyusal filmlerimiz ve kokulu orgumuz var.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“Her şeyin ulaşılabilir olduğu bir dünyada hiçbir şeyin anlamı yoktur”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“Bu da," diye veciz bir ifadeyle ekledi Müdür, "mutluluk ve erdemin sırrıdır- yapmak zorunda olduğun şeyi sevmek. Tüm şartlandırmaların amacı budur: insanlara, kaçınılmaz toplumsal yazgılarını sevdirmek.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Küçük kurallara uyarsan, büyük kuralları çiğneyebilirdin.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Nitekim kuantum mekaniği televizyon ve bilgisayar gibi elektronik aletlerin temel bileşenleri olan transistörlerin ve mikroçiplerin davranışına hükmettiği gibi, modern kimyanın ve biyolojinin de temelini oluşturur.”
― Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time

“The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“Most of us generate more planet-warming emissions from eating than we do from driving or flying. Food production now accounts for about a fifth of total greenhouse gas emissions annually, which means that agriculture contributes more than any other sector, including energy and transportation, to climate change.”
― Amanda Little, The Fate of Food: What We'll Eat in a Bigger, Hotter, Smarter World

“The ultimate parallel computer is a quantum computer. Quantum computing pioneer David Deutsch controversially argues that “quantum computers share information with huge numbers of versions of themselves throughout the multiverse,” and can get answers faster here in our Universe by in a sense getting help from these other versions.”
― Max Tegmark, Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

“Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“…Fakat gözyaşlarımızdan utanmamızın gereği yoktu; çünkü gözyaşları insanın cesaretlerden en büyüğü olan acı çekme cesaretine sahip olduğunun kanıtıdır.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“From Freud’s account we could never suspect either that he retained a lifetime grudge against gentiles or that—as we will find—one strain of anti-Semitism affected his own apprehension of fellow Jews.”
― Frederick C. Crews, Freud: The Making of an Illusion

“Between 1877 and 1900, Freud published six extensive monographs, forty articles, and an enormous number of reviews. In books such as On Aphasia (1891), the collaborative Clinical Study on the Unilateral Cerebral Paralyses of Children (1891), and Infantile Cerebral Paralysis (1897)”
― Frederick C. Crews, Freud: The Making of an Illusion

“By most objective accounts, however, none of Freud’s pre-psychoanalytic writings were pivotal for the modern development of any discipline. Although Gordon Shepherd devotes a chapter.”
― Frederick C. Crews, Freud: The Making of an Illusion

“Although Gordon Shepherd devotes a chapter to him in his treatise on neuron theory, for example, Shepherd concludes that Freud’s papers deserve to be ranked with a large number of others. And in Joseph D. Robinson’s definitive study of how synaptic transmission came to be recognized, Freud’s name goes altogether unmentioned. His early record, furthermore, is notably discontinuous, showing little follow-through. He skipped from one self-contained task to another, augmenting the sum of generally accepted knowledge and deftly criticizing premature conclusions reached by others but never crucially testing any of his own hypotheses.”
― Frederick C. Crews, Freud: The Making of an Illusion