Djamel Benali > Djamel's Quotes

“The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.”
― Baruch Spinoza

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.”
― Baruch Spinoza

“The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.”
― Spinoza

“When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.”
― Benedict de Spinoza

“We need to read books that make our thinking better, not increasing our sexual desire.”
― Djamel Benali

“الشافعي :

لا يُدرِكُ الحِكمَةَ مَن عُمرُهُ

يَكدَحُ في مَصلَحَةِ الأَهلِ

وَلا يَنالُ العِلمَ إِلّا فَتىً

خالٍ مِنَ الأَفكارِ وَالشُغلِ

لَو أَنَّ لُقمانَ الحَكيمَ الَّذي

سارَت بِهِ الرُكبانُ بِالفَضلِ

بُلي بِفَقرٍ وَعِيالٍ لَما

فَرَّقَ بَينَ التِبنِ وَالبَقلِ”
― الشافعي

“ألا إنَّ تمامَ الشقْوةْ أن تقعُد أسيرَ الشهوةْ.”
― محمود بن عمر الزمخشري, ‫مقامات الزمخشري‬

“The more distinctly a man knows, the more intelligent he is, the more pain he has; the man who is gifted with genius suffers most of all.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

“When you show yourself to the world and display your talents, you naturally stir all kinds of resentment, envy, and other manifestations of insecurity... you cannot spend your life worrying about the petty feelings of others”
― Robert Greene, The 48 Laws of Power

“Many a serious thinker has been produced in prisons, where we have nothing to do but think.”
― Robert Greene, The 48 Laws of Power

“The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways.”
― Robert Greene, Mastery

“person who cannot control his words shows that he cannot control himself, and is unworthy of respect.”
― Robert Greene, The 48 Laws of Power