Ismail Alhajj > Ismail's Quotes

“يستيقظ في ذاكرته حوار قديم بينه وبين زوجته: ابنتكَ تحبك كثيراً، تحبك إلى درجة الغيرة، إنها تغار مني”
― محمد قرط الجزمي, أنثى بطعم السكر

“As your perspective of the world increases not only is the pain it inflicts on you less but also its meaning. Understanding the world requires you to take a certain distance from it. Things that are too small to see with the naked eye, such as molecules and atoms, we magnify. Things that are too large, such as cloud formations, river deltas, constellations, we reduce. At length we bring it within the scope of our senses and we stabilize it with fixer. When it has been fixed we call it knowledge. Throughout our childhood and teenage years, we strive to attain the correct distance to objects and phenomena. We read, we learn, we experience, we make adjustments. Then one day we reach the point where all the necessary distances have been set, all the necessary systems have been put in place. That is when time begins to pick up speed. It no longer meets any obstacles, everything is set, time races through our lives, the days pass by in a flash and before we know that is happening we are forty, fifty, sixty... Meaning requires content, content requires time, time requires resistance. Knowledge is distance, knowledge is stasis and the enemy of meaning. My picture of my father on that evening in 1976 is, in other words, twofold: on the one hand I see him as I saw him at that time, through the eyes of an eight-year-old: unpredictable and frightening; on the other hand, I see him as a peer through whose life time is blowing and unremittingly sweeping large chunks of meaning along with it.”
― Karl Ove Knausgård, Min kamp 1

“Meritocracy flourishes in sunlight.”
― John Doerr, Measure What Matters

“الحمد لله الذي تلطف بعباده فتعبدهم بالنظافة، وأفاض على قلوبهم تزكية لسرائرهم أنواره وألطافه، وأعدّ لظواهرهم تطهيرا لها الماء المخصوص بالرقة واللطافة، وصلى الله على النبي محمد المستغرق بنور الهدى أطراف العالم وأكنافه، وعلى آله الطيبين الطاهرين صلاة تنجينا بركاتها يوم المخافة، وتنتصب جنة بيننا وبين كل آفة.
كتب أسرار الطهارة”
― أبو حامد امام محمد غزالی, إحياء علوم الدين

“الواجب على العاقل أخذ العدة لرحيله ، فإنه لا يعلم متى يفجؤه أمر ربه ، و لا يدري
متى يستدعى ؟

و إني رأيت خلقاً كثيراً غرهم الشباب ، و نسوا فقد الأقران ، و ألهاهم طول الأمل .

و ربما قال العالم المحض لنفسه : أشتغل بالعلم اليوم ثم أعمل به غداً ، فيتساهل في الزلل بحجة الراحة ، و يؤخر الأهبة لتحقيق التوبة ، و لا يتحاشى من غيبة أو سماعها ، و من كسب شبهة يأمل أن يمحوها بالورع .

و ينسى أن الموت قد يبغت . فالعاقل من أعطى كل لحظة حقها من الواجب عليه ، فإن بغته الموت رؤى مستعداً ، و إن نال الأمل ازداد خيراً .”
― ابن الجوزي, صيد الخاطر

“العقلية العربية تميل غالباً إلى نظرية المؤامرة،لأنها تعفيها من تبعة المساءلة والنقد،وتجعلها ضحية لتكالب الآخرين عليها.”
― سلمان العودة, أسئلة الثورة

“A simple way to take measure of a country is to look at how many want in.. And how many want out.”
― Tony Blair

“هناك دوماً من يشير إلى تعارضات مزعومة وغير مقبولة بين القلق والشرود والتيقظ، وهؤلاء هم أشخاص يقتصرون على العيش كيفما اتفق، أشخاص لم يواجهوا القدر قط وجهاً لوجه.”
― جوزيه ساراماغو

“كان شيخ يدور في المجالس ويقول : من سـرّه أن تدوم له العافية فليتق الله عز وجل
( فصل : محاسبة النفس )”
― ابن الجوزي, صيد الخاطر

“في الأحلام تبدأ المسؤولية”
― هاروكي موراكامي - كافكا على الشاطيء

“Not being tense but ready.
Not thinking but not dreaming.
Not being set but flexible.
Liberation from the uneasy sense of confinement.
It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come.”
― Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do

“Perhaps science does not develop by the accumulation of individual discoveries and inventions”
― Thomas S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

“I think my blunt and contrary nature helps my science, because I don’t simply accept things just because other people believe it,”
― Walter Isaacson, The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race

“Asilomar’s lack of focus on ethical issues bothered many religious leaders. That prompted a letter to President Jimmy Carter signed by the heads of three major religious organizations: the National Council of Churches, the Synagogue Council of America, and the U.S. Catholic Conference. “We are rapidly moving into a new era of fundamental danger triggered by the rapid growth of genetic engineering,” they wrote. “Who shall determine how human good is best served when new life forms are being engineered?”13 These decisions should not be left to scientists, the trio argued. “There will always be those who believe it appropriate to ‘correct’ our mental and social structures by genetic means. This becomes more dangerous when the basic tools to do so are finally at hand. Those who would play God will be tempted as never before.”
― Walter Isaacson, The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race

“Ludwig Boltzmann, who spent much of his life studying statistical mechanics, died in 1906, by his own hand. Paul Ehrenfest, carrying on the work, died similarly in 1933. Now it is our turn to study statistical mechanics.”
― David L. Goodstein, States of Matter