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“ولذا بدلاً من الحديث عن "حقوق الإنسان"، إنسان روسو الطبيعي الذي يعيش حسب قوانين الطبيعة، مما يضطرنا إلى الحديث عن "حقوق المرأة" الفرد، ثم أخيراً عن "حقوق الطفل" الفرد، قد يكون من الأجدر بنا أن نتحدث عن "حقوق الأسرة" كنقطة بدء ثم يتفرع عنها وبعدها "حقوق الأفراد" الذين يكوّنون هذه الأسرة، أي أننا سنبدأ بالكل (الإنسان الاجتماعي) ثم نتبعه بالأجزاء الفردية”
― عبد الوهاب المسيري, قضية المرأة: بين التحرير والتمركز حول الأنثى

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
― Narcotics Anonymous

“Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.”
― Albert Einstein

“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
― Albert Einstein

“If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
― Albert Einstein

“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
― Albert Einstein

“Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources”
― C.E.M. Joad

“If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?”
― Albert Einstein

“إنها قصة حزينة، وأشد جوانبها مدعاة للحزن هو أن كل الأطراف فيها مدانون، وكلهم يسهمون في تلك الجريمة الكبرى التي لم ترتكب النظم اللاديمقراطية ما هو أفظع منها- جريمة هدم العقول”
― فؤاد زكريا, كم عمر الغضب: هيكل وأزمة العقل العربي

“A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.”
― Albert Einstein

“And the night shall be filled with music,
And the cares, that infest the day,
Shall fold their tents like the Arabs,
and silently steal away.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.”
― Isaac Newton, The Correspondence of Isaac Newton: Volume 5, 1709–1713

“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
― Carl Sagan

“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.”
― Carl Sagan

“Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”
― Carl Sagan

“In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.”
― Carl Sagan

“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

“The earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of the dot on scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner of the dot. How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity -- in all this vastness -- there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us. It's been said that astronomy is a humbling, and I might add, a character-building experience. To my mind, there is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.”
― Carl Sagan

“we make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“The Universe is very, very big.
It also loves a paradox. For example, it has some extremely strict rules.
Rule number one: Nothing lasts forever.
Not you or your family or your house or your planet or the sun. It is an absolute rule. Therefore when someone says that their love will never die, it means that their love is not real, for everything that is real dies.

Rule number two: Everything lasts forever.”
― Craig Ferguson, Between the Bridge and the River

“Isn't language loss a good thing, because fewer languages mean easier communication among the world's people? Perhaps, but it's a bad thing in other respects. Languages differ in structure and vocabulary, in how they express causation and feelings and personal responsibility, hence in how they shape our thoughts. There's no single purpose "best" language; instead, different languages are better suited for different purposes. For instance, it may not have been an accident that Plato and Aristotle wrote in Greek, while Kant wrote in German. The grammatical particles of those two languages, plus their ease in forming compound words, may have helped make them the preeminent languages of western philosophy. Another example, familiar to all of us who studied Latin, is that highly inflected languages (ones in which word endings suffice to indicate sentence structure) can use variations of word order to convey nuances impossible with English. Our English word order is severely constrained by having to serve as the main clue to sentence structure. If English becomes a world language, that won't be because English was necessarily the best language for diplomacy.”
― Jared Diamond, The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal

“ولعل البدايات كما كان أستاذي القديم سوريانوس يقول ، ما هي إلا محض أوهام نعتقدها . فالبداية والنهاية إنما تكونان فقط في الخط المستقيم . ولا خطوط مستقيمة إلا في أوهامنا ، أو في الوريقات التي نسطر فيها ما نتوهمه . أما في الحياة وفي الكون كله ، فكل شيء دائري يعود إلى ما منه بدأ ، ويتداخل مع ما به اتصل.”
― يوسف زيدان, عزازيل

“Music, feelings of happiness, mythology, faces worn by time, certain twilights and certain places, want to tell us something, or they told us something that we should not have missed, or they are about to tell us something; this imminence of a revelation that is not produced is, perhaps, 'the aesthetic event'.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“A book is more than a verbal structure or series of verbal structures; it is the dialogue it establishes with its reader and the intonation it imposes upon his voice and the changing and durable images it leaves in his memory. A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“Reality is not always probable, or likely.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.”
― Jorge Luis Borges