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Alice in Wonderland,
by George Dunlop Leslie
Forwarded from The Iraqi Mind (Mahdi Ahmed)
فإنْ أبَوا أعطَيتُهُم حدّ السَيف وكفى به شافيًا مِن الباطل وناصرًا للحق
فإذا أمَرتُكُم بالسَيرِ إليهم في أيّام الصيف، قُلتُم: هذه حَمَارّةُ القَيظ¹، أمهِلنا يُسَبَّخ عنا الحَر. وإذا أمَرتُكُم بالسيرِ إليهم في الشتاء، قُلتُم: هذه صَبَارّةُ القُرِّ²، أمهِلنا يَنسَلِخ عنا البَرد، كُلّ هذا فرارًا مِنَ الحرِّ والقُرّ؛ فإذا كُنتُم مِنَ الحَرِّ والقُرِّ تفرّون فأنتم واللهِ مِنَ السَيفِ أفَرُّ!

¹حَمَارّةُ القَيظ: شِدّةُ الحَر.
²صَبَارَّةُ القُر: شِدّةُ البَرد.
— علي بن أبي طالب (ع)
As one who felt himself in a position to make judgments about the ailments of culture, Nietzsche must have struggled with ambivalence toward a world that was capable of producing him and his philosophy as well as the philosophies of Christianity, anarchism, and Socrates.
What Nietzsche seeks to do as a thinker, I believe, is to prepare us for change. He shows that humanity has a history, that it has been (de-)formed in a particular way, and that the end of the Christian-moral interpretation of the world offers the possibility of another beginning.
Nietzsche, like Aristotle, accepts the fact that humans are social animals, and consequently he must recognize that the development of a culture and its individual members are tied to one another. Spiritual change and transformation is both an individual and a collective pursuit, therefore it has not only psychological but political implications.
— Laughing at Nothing
ما أَكثَرَ الناسَ لا بَل ما أَقَلَّهُمُ
اللَهُ يَعلَمُ أَنّي لَم أَقُل فَنَدا

إِنّي لَأَفتَحُ عَيني حينَ أَفتَحُها
عَلى كَثيرٍ وَلَكِن لا أَرى أَحَدا
ما أَضيعَ الغِمدَ بِغَيرِ نَصلِهِ
وَالعُرفَ ما لَم يَكُ عِندَ أَهلِهِ
— دعبل الخزاعي
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The attempt to make heaven on earth invariably produces hell

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The other world is this world rightly seen.
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In the course of composing his memoirs, [Winston Churchill] reflected on the unaccountable run of bad luck he had encountered in all that touched and concerned the Turkish East . . . He told his readers how a monkey bit the King of Greece and caused the renewed…
When you read how individual men's prejudices, superstitions, desires, and their runs against blind luck lead them to shape the world you know it today... This makes you laugh, and wonder, “with how little wisdom the world is governed”.