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المتخفي: الحيوات السرية للدماغ

by David Eagleman (Goodreads Author)

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"صاغ كارل يونغ هذه القضية : " إن في داخل كلٍّ منّا شخصاً آخر لا نعرفه "
وكما صاغ ذلك المغني بنك فلويد : " ثمة شخص ما في رأسي، لكنه ليس أنا "" — Apr 08, 2026 01:48AM

Apr 08, 2026 01:48AM

“Hawks aren’t social animals like dogs or horses; they understand neither coercion nor punishment. The only way to tame them is through positive reinforcement with gifts of food. You want the hawk to eat the food you hold – it’s the first step in reclaiming her that will end with you being hunting partners.”
― Helen Macdonald, H is for Hawk

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“وقال يحيى بن معاذ: لا يكون الرجل حكيما حتى تستجمع فيه ثلاث خصال: يلحظ الأغنياء
بعين النصيحة لا بعين الحسد
ويلحظ النساء بعين الشفقة لا بعين الشهوة ويلحظ الفقراء بعين التواضع لا بعين التكبر”
― عبد الملك الخركوشي, تهذيب الأسرار في أصول التصوف

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“He must find things he cannot lose”
― Ernest Hemingway

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“I fell in love with him, and it made no sense for me to fall in love with him. We could not possibly have been more different. But maybe that’s where love grows best—in the deep space that exists between polarities.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, City of Girls

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“If you say that everything—chaos, darkness, anathema— can be reduced to mathematical formulae—then man will go insane on purpose to have no judgement, and to behave as he likes. I believe this because it appears that man’s whole business is to prove that he is a man and not a cog-wheel... And perhaps, who knows, the striving of man on earth may consist in this uninterrupted striving for something ahead, that is, in life itself rather than some real end which obviously must be a static formula of the same kind as two and two make four—I am sure that man will never renounce the genuine suffering that comes of ruin and chaos. Why, suffering is the one and only source of knowledge”
― Colin Wilson, The Outsider

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