Ahmadali Shafiee > Ahmadali's Quotes

“همه‌اش مساله‌ی تخیل است. مسئولیت ما از قدرت تخیل شروع می‌شود. درست همان‌طور که ییتس می‌گوید: مسئولیت از رویا آغاز می‌شود. این موضوع را وارونه کنید، در این صورت می‌شود گفت هرجا قدرت تخیل نباشد، مسئولیتی در بین نیست. همان‌طور که در مورد آیشمن می‌بینیم.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“نوع خاصی از کمال، فقط از راه انباشت نامحدود نقص تحقق می‌یابد”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“مردم خیلی زود از چیزهایی که ملال‌آور نیست خسته می‌شوند، اما نه از چیزهایی که در اصل ملال‌آورند.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“واقعیت فقط عبارت است از انباشت پیشگویی‌های شوم که در زندگی رخ می‌دهد”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“یه باغچه داشتیم... روز تولدم پدرم توش یه درخت سیب کاشته بود... پدرم این‌جوری بود... هربار که مادرم بچه‌ای می‌زایید یه درخت می‌کاشت... وقتی به دنیا اومدم تو باغچه‌مون یه درخت زردآلو، یه درخت آلو، یه درخت آلبالو با یه درخت گردو بود.[…] عاقبت... چند سال پیش که رفتم مامانم رو ببینم دوباره باغچه‌مونو دیدم. هیچی تغییر نکرده بود. همه درختا جوونه زده بودن. مادرم وقتی منو دید انگار خود درخت سیب وارد اتاقش شده بود. خیلی تعجب کرد...اون هیچ وقت محتاج دیدن من و خواهر برادرام نبود. دلش واسه ما تنگ نمی‌شد. چون ما برایِ اون همیشه اون جا بودیم، تو باغچه... همیشه تو باغچه... اون واقعا عادت کرده بود.”
― Matei Vişniec

“The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.”
― Thomas Paine, A Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal on the Affairs of North America

“What feminism means for me is simply that women, like men, are complete human beings with limitless possibilities.”
― Fahmida Riaz

“You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole--like the world, or the person you loved.”
― Stewart O'Nan, The Odds: A Love Story

“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

“I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

“Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone.”
― Czeslaw Milosz

“I address you all tonight for who you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers.”
― Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret

“I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“تنها يک مساله اساسي فلسفی وجود دارد و آنهم خودکشی ست . تشخيص اينکه زندگی ارزش زيستن دارد يا به زحمت زيستنش نمی ارزد , در واقع پاسخ صحيحي است به مساله اساسی فلسفه . باقی چيزها : مثلا اينکه جهان دارای سه بعد و عقل دارای نه يا دوازده مقوله است مسايل بعدی و دست دوم را تشکيل می دهد .


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― آلبر كامو

“Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.”
― Alex Haley

“The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.”
― V. S. Naipaul, In a Free State

“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
― Steve Jobs

“...dopamine is not about the happiness of reward. It's about the happiness of pursuit of reward that has a decent chance of occurring.”
― Robert M. Sapolsky, Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

“The door refused to open. It said, “Five cents, please.”
He searched his pockets. No more coins; nothing. “I’ll pay you tomorrow,” he told the door. Again he tried the knob. Again it remained locked tight. “What I pay you,” he informed it, “is in the nature of a gratuity; I don’t have to pay you.”
“I think otherwise,” the door said. “Look in the purchase contract you signed when you bought this conapt.”
In his desk drawer he found the contract; since signing it he had found it necessary to refer to the document many times. Sure enough; payment to his door for opening and shutting constituted a mandatory fee. Not a tip.
“You discover I’m right,” the door said. It sounded smug.
From the drawer beside the sink Joe Chip got a stainless steel knife; with it he began systematically to unscrew the bolt assembly of his apt’s money-gulping door.
“I’ll sue you,” the door said as the first screw fell out.
Joe Chip said, “I’ve never been sued by a door. But I guess I can live through it.”
― Philip K. Dick, Ubik