لأن المرء يكون أقرب إلى الحقيقة حين يكون غبيَّاً، إن الغباء يمضي نحو الهدف رأساً، البغاء بساطة وإيجاز، أما الذكاء فمكر ومخاتلة. إن الفكر الذكي فاجرٌ فاسد، أما الغباء فمستقيم شريف، لقد شرحت لك يأسي، وعلى قدر ما يكون الشرح غبياً يكون الأمر أفضل في نظري.
At some thoughts one stands perplexed - especially at the sight of men's sin - and wonders whether one should use force or humble love. Always decide to use humble love. If you resolve on that, once and for all, you may subdue the whole world. Loving humility is marvelously strong, the strongest of all things, and there is nothing else like it.
No, not in a future everlasting but in an everlasting life here. There are moments, you reach moments, and time comes to a sudden stop, and it will become eternal.
The genuine realist, if he is an unbeliever, will always find strength and ability to disbelieve in the miraculous, and if he is confronted with a miracle as an irrefutable fact he would rather disbelieve his own senses than admit the miraculous also.
And you're sorry that the ephemeral beauty has faded so rapidly, so irretrievably, that it flashed so deceptively and pointlessly before your eyes--you're sorry, for you didn't even have time to fall in love...
Where was it that I read about a man condemned to death saying or thinking, an hour before his death, that if he had to live somewhere high up on a cliffside, on a ledge so narrow that there was room only for his two feet - and with the abyss, the ocean, eternal darkness, eternal solitude, eternal storm all around him - and had to stay like that, on a square foot of space, an entire lifetime, a thousand years, an eternity - it would be better to live so than die right now! Only to live, to live, to live! To live, no matter how - only to live! ...How true! Lord, how true! Man is a scoundrel! And he's a scoundrel who calls him a scoundrel for that.
Being in love doesn't mean loving.
لأن المرء يكون أقرب إلى الحقيقة حين يكون غبيَّاً، إن الغباء يمضي نحو الهدف رأساً، البغاء بساطة وإيجاز، أما الذكاء فمكر ومخاتلة. إن الفكر الذكي فاجرٌ فاسد، أما الغباء فمستقيم شريف، لقد شرحت لك يأسي، وعلى قدر ما يكون الشرح غبياً يكون الأمر أفضل في نظري.
At some thoughts one stands perplexed - especially at the sight of men's sin - and wonders whether one should use force or humble love. Always decide to use humble love. If you resolve on that, once and for all, you may subdue the whole world. Loving humility is marvelously strong, the strongest of all things, and there is nothing else like it.
How does it come about that what an intelligent man expresses is much stupider than what remains inside him?
Do you believe in a future everlasting life?
No, not in a future everlasting but in an everlasting life here. There are moments, you reach moments, and time comes to a sudden stop, and it will become eternal.
The genuine realist, if he is an unbeliever, will always find strength and ability to disbelieve in the miraculous, and if he is confronted with a miracle as an irrefutable fact he would rather disbelieve his own senses than admit the miraculous also.
And you're sorry that the ephemeral beauty has faded so rapidly, so irretrievably, that it flashed so deceptively and pointlessly before your eyes--you're sorry, for you didn't even have time to fall in love...
Where was it that I read about a man condemned to death saying or thinking, an hour before his death, that if he had to live somewhere high up on a cliffside, on a ledge so narrow that there was room only for his two feet - and with the abyss, the ocean, eternal darkness, eternal solitude, eternal storm all around him - and had to stay like that, on a square foot of space, an entire lifetime, a thousand years, an eternity - it would be better to live so than die right now! Only to live, to live, to live! To live, no matter how - only to live! ...How true! Lord, how true! Man is a scoundrel! And he's a scoundrel who calls him a scoundrel for that.
ن المصابين بمرض الفكرة الثابتة يجعلون من الفأرة جبلا، ويرون أشياء كثيرة حيث لا يوجد شيء البتة !
After all, bluff and real emotion exist so easily side by side.