محمد الخواص

“humans are a strange lot. We have the power to analyze and explore the world around us, yet panic as soon as the evidence threatens to violate our expectations”
― Frans de Waal, Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?

“Men are not gentle creatures who want to be loved, and who at the most can defend themselves if they are attacked; they are, on the contrary, creatures among whose instinctual endowments is to be reckoned a powerful share of aggressiveness. As a result, their neighbor is for them not only a potential helper or sexual object, but also someone who tempts them to satisfy their aggressiveness on him, to exploit his capacity for work without compensation, to use him sexually without his consent, to seize his possessions, to humiliate him, to cause him pain, to torture and to kill him. Homo homini lupus [man is wolf to man]. Who, in the face of all his experience of life and of history, will have the courage to dispute this assertion?”
― Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents

“لا أعرف يا خاون برثيادو. فمنذ سنوات كثيرة لم أرفع وجهي، لقد نسيت السماء. ولو أننى فعلت هذا، فماذا سأكسب؟ فالسماء مرتفعة جدًا، ونظري ضعيف، لقد كنت أعيش مسرورة بمعرفة أين تكون الأرض. فضلًا عن ذلك، فقد فقدت كل اهتمامي منذ أن أكد لي الأب رينتيريا أنني لن أعرف الجنة أبدًا. ولا حتى سأراها من بعيد.. وهذا بسبب ذنوبي، لكنه ما كان ينبغي عليه أن يقول هذا لي. فالحياة تُعاش بالأعمال. والشيء الوحيد الذي يجعل المرء يحرك قدميه هو الأمل أنه عند الموت سيحملونه من مكان إلى آخر، لكن عندما يغلقون أمامه الباب، ولا يبقى مفتوحًا إلا باب الجحيم، فأولى له ألا يولد..”
― Juan Rulfo

“The one truth you need to know about the end of a machine is that the closer they are to death, the more they act like people.”
― C. Robert Cargill, Sea of Rust