يُخَيَّل إليَّ أنَّ الرجالَ العُظماءَ حقًا لا بُدّ أنْ يَشعروا على هذهِ الأرضِ بحُزنٍ عَظيم
- فيودور دوستويفسكي، الجريمة والعقاب
- فيودور دوستويفسكي، الجريمة والعقاب
'The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth
- Crime and Punishment
- Crime and Punishment
الرجال العظماء هم من يولدون في الزمان الخاطئ، لأنّهم ليسوا أبناء الحاضر، بل أبناء المستقبل، "لأنّ بعض الرجال يولدون بعد مماتهم." بهذا السياق، فإنّهم دائمًا ما يعيشون عزلة وجودية لأنّهم غرباءُ عن الحاضر.
Because they are in a profound, creative disagreement with the present.
Because they are in a profound, creative disagreement with the present.
People with new ideas, people with the faintest capacity for saying something new, are extremely few in number, extraordinarily so in fact.
- Crime and Punishment
- Crime and Punishment
So little do people understand me that they will not even understand my complaint that they do not understand me
- Soren Kierkegaard
- Soren Kierkegaard
The paradox of greatness:
The greatest people of history are also the most isolated and lonely, regardless of their fame.
The greatest people of history are also the most isolated and lonely, regardless of their fame.
Just to be clear, I'm not glorifying loneliness... As far as I'm concerned, nobody here is great, so we all should have some company.
+ You have to be so damn narcissistic to believe that ur lonely bcuz ur great
+ You have to be so damn narcissistic to believe that ur lonely bcuz ur great
Forwarded from M.
يعني كومة... صعب جدًا اختزالها هكذا، بس يخطر في بالي ربما التالي:
A self-aware person, who continously renews himself, self-sufficient who relies on nobody, who's capable of evil yet he doesn't do evil, who strives for the best for himself and for those he cares about... Of course that demands a great deal of intelligence
A self-aware person, who continously renews himself, self-sufficient who relies on nobody, who's capable of evil yet he doesn't do evil, who strives for the best for himself and for those he cares about... Of course that demands a great deal of intelligence
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يعني كومة... صعب جدًا اختزالها هكذا، بس يخطر في بالي ربما التالي: A self-aware person, who continously renews himself, self-sufficient who relies on nobody, who's capable of evil yet he doesn't do evil, who strives for the best for himself and for those…
+ here's the best answer on what makes a person great 💚
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards
- Soren Kierkegaard
- Soren Kierkegaard
To SEE and accept the boundaries of the human mind without vain rebellion, and in these severe limitations to work ceaselessly without protest - this is where man's first duty lies.
- Saviors of God
- Saviors of God
The TV has made entertainment itself the natural format for the representation of all experience. The problem is not that television presents us with entertaining subject matter but that all subject matter is presented as entertaining.
- Amusing Ourselves To Death
- Amusing Ourselves To Death