Osman Ibrahim > Osman 's Quotes

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“أنا من أهوى ومن أهوى أنا
نـــــحن روحان حللنا بدنا
فــــــإذا أبصرتني أبصرته
وإذا أبصــــــــرته كان أنـــا
روحه روحي وروحي روحه
من رأى روحين حلا بدنـــا”
― الحسين بن منصور الحلاج

“أفهامُ الخلائقِ لاتتعلَّق بالحقيقة ، والحقيقة لاتتعلَّق بالخليقة . الخواطرُ علائقُ ، وعلائقُ الخلائقِ لاتصل إلى الحقائق . والإدراك إلى علم الحقيقة صعبٌ ، فكيف إلى حَقِّ الحقيقة؟”
― الحلاج, ديوان الحلاج: أخبار الحلاج - كتاب الطواسين

“this is love. I have my self-consciousness not in myself but in the other. I am satisfied and have peace with myself only in this other and I AM only because I have peace with myself; if I did not have it then I would be a contradiction that falls to pieces. This other, because it likewise exists outside itself, has its self-consciousness only in me; and both the other and I are only this consciousness of being-outside-ourselves and of our identity; we are only this intuition, feeling, and knowledge of our unity. This is love, and without knowing that love is both a distinguishing and the sublation of this distinction, one speaks emptily of it.”
― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“That which Dante saw written on the door of the inferno must be written in a different sense also at the entrance to philosophy: “Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.” Those who look for true philosophy must be bereft of all hope, all desire, all longing. They must not wish for anything, not know anything, must feel completely bare and impoverished.”
― Friedrich Schelling

“I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations and excitments, awaited those who had the courage to go forth into it's expanse, to seek real knowledge of life amidst it's perils.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Nothing divides one so much as thought.”
― Reginald Horace Blyth