It is the height of stupidity to believe that in the course of your short life, your few decades of consciousness, you can somehow rewire the configurations of your brain through technology and wishful thinking, overcoming the effect of six million years of development. To go against the grain might bring temporary distraction, but time will mercilessly expose your weakness and impatience.
- Mastery, by Robert Greene
- Mastery, by Robert Greene
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It is the height of stupidity to believe that in the course of your short life, your few decades of consciousness, you can somehow rewire the configurations of your brain through technology and wishful thinking, overcoming the effect of six million years of…
من الغباء الإيمان بأنّك، خلال العقود القليلة من حياتك القصيرة، يمكنك أن تغيّر من طبيعتك البشرية باستخدام التكنولوجيا والتفكير المتفائل، لتتغلب بذلك على ستّة ملايين سنة من التطور البايولوجي والنفسي. قد يوفّر لك العمل ضّد طبيعتك البشرية بعض الإلهاء لفترة، لكن الزمن سيُظهر، بلا رحمة، ضعفك وانعدام صبرك.
Just as a well-filled day brings blessed sleep, so a well-employed life brings a blessed death.
- Leonardo Da Vinci
- Leonardo Da Vinci
Death loses its terror if one dies when one has consummated one's life!
If one does not live in the right time, then one can never die at the right time.
- When Nietzsche wept
If one does not live in the right time, then one can never die at the right time.
- When Nietzsche wept
Leonard Cohen - A Thousand Kisses Deep
Leonard Cohen
A thousand kisses deep
The body could decay but the mind would continue to learn and adapt. Using time for such effect is the essential ingredient of mastery.
- Mastery, by Robert Greene
- Mastery, by Robert Greene
Medicine is learned by the bedside and not in the classroom.
- Sir William Osler
- Sir William Osler
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Medicine is learned by the bedside and not in the classroom. - Sir William Osler
الطب يُدرَّس عند أسرّة المرضى، وليس في القاعات الدراسية
- سير ويليام أوسلر، أحد المؤسسين الأربعة لجامعة جون هوبكنز للطب
- سير ويليام أوسلر، أحد المؤسسين الأربعة لجامعة جون هوبكنز للطب
I consider life itself instinct for growth, for durability, for accumulation of forces, for power: where the will to power is lacking there is decline.
- The Antichrist, Friedrich Nietzsche
- The Antichrist, Friedrich Nietzsche
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I consider life itself instinct for growth, for durability, for accumulation of forces, for power: where the will to power is lacking there is decline. - The Antichrist, Friedrich Nietzsche
أنا أرى الحياة بحدّ ذاتها غريزةً للنمو، التحمّل، وتراكم القوى والقدرات: حيثُ تُفتَقَدُ إرادة القوة، يوجد الضعف والتدهور
And this secret spake Life herself unto me. “Behold,” said she, “I am that WHICH MUST EVER SURPASS ITSELF.
[...]And verily, where there is succumbing and leaf-falling, lo, there doth Life sacrifice itself—for power!
- Thus spoke Zarathustra, self-surpassing
[...]And verily, where there is succumbing and leaf-falling, lo, there doth Life sacrifice itself—for power!
- Thus spoke Zarathustra, self-surpassing
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And this secret spake Life herself unto me. “Behold,” said she, “I am that WHICH MUST EVER SURPASS ITSELF. [...]And verily, where there is succumbing and leaf-falling, lo, there doth Life sacrifice itself—for power! - Thus spoke Zarathustra, self-surpassing
لقد أودَعَتني الحياةُ سرّها قائلةً: لقد تحتَّم عليَّ أنْ أتفوقَ أبدًا على ذاتي.
[...]والحقُّ أنكم حينَ تشهدون إنحدارًا، وسقوطَ الأوراق من الأشجار، فهنالك تشهدون تضحيةَ الحياةِ من أجل القوة
- هكذا تكلم زرادشت
[...]والحقُّ أنكم حينَ تشهدون إنحدارًا، وسقوطَ الأوراق من الأشجار، فهنالك تشهدون تضحيةَ الحياةِ من أجل القوة
- هكذا تكلم زرادشت
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Boy under his mother's protective coat (1923) By Sidonie Springer
Knabe unter dem Schutzmantel (1923)