«From birth, humans are given a longing for what is foreign, for what takes them away from their origin (‘‘Humans were initiated into that distance’’). As a result, however, we are also born with Heimweh [Homesickness], a longing for an origin from which we are constantly drawn away. . . . As humans we strive toward the other, but need to return constantly to our Heimath [= today’s German Heimat]. To find the nature of the self in Godwi is to recognize these contradictory impulses within the self and to determine the nature of the Heimath to which the self longs to return.»

—John B. Lyon, Crafting Flesh, Crafting the Self: Violence and Identity in Early Nineteenth-Century German Literature (Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2006), 89.

«ومن الناس مَن لا يقلُّ إيمانًا بظُنونه عن إيمان آخرينَ بعِلمهم» — أرسطو، الأخلاق إلى نيقوماخوس.

—المقطع: مقدمة عبد الرحمن بدوي لـلبرهان من كتاب الشفاء لابن سينا (القاهرة: دار النهضة العربية، 1966)، 10.

Rudolf Buchbinder (79-year-old) playing the Andante con Moto of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4.