Mona

“Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It's by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I'm human”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

“It is amazing what one ray of sunshine can do for a man!”
― Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

“I did not know what I was going to do with my life; before anything else I wanted to find an answer, my answer, to the timeless questions, and then after that I would decide what I would become. If I did not begin by discovering what was the grand purpose of life on earth, I said to myself, how would I be able to discover the purpose of my tiny ephemeral life? And if I did not give my life a purpose, how would I be able to engage in action? I was not interested in finding what life's purpose was objectively - this, I divined, was impossible and futile - but simply what purpose I, of my own free will, could give it in accord with my spiritual and intellectual needs. Whether or not this purpose was the true one did not, at that time, have any great significance for me. The important thing was that I should find (should create) a purpose congruent with my own self, and thus, by following it, reel out my particular desires and abilities to the furthest possible limit. For then at last I would be collaborating harmoniously with the totality of the universe.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Report to Greco

“إن صلاتي ليست ندبة شحاذ، ولا اعترافات عاشق، ولا حسابات متواضعة لتاجر مقايضة صغير: وهبتك فاعطني.

إن صلاتي هي تقرير من جندي إلى قائده: هذا ما فعلته اليوم.. هكذا حاربت لكي أنقذ قطاعي الخاص طوال المعركة، هذه هي المعوقات التي واجهتها.. وهكذا أفكر استعدادا لمعركة الغد.”
― نيكوس كزنتزاكس, تصوف: منقذو الآلهة