- True Detective

It's not consciousness that's making us sick, it's imagination.

It's our ability to imagine—in our heads—a better, more utopian world than ours, and then compare our reality to the utopia of our mind. This is what underlies despair. As George Carlin said: "Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist."

I should say, I never liked this quote. It doesn't feel right, it feels too romantic and tortured artist-ish to me: it makes the entirety of humanity like a tortured romantic artist who's "too perfect and pure for our crooked world."

خُذِ الحَيَاةَ كما جاءتْكَ مبتسمًا
في كفِّها الغارُ أَو في كفِّها العَدَمُ

وارقصْ على الوردِ والأَشواكِ متَّئِدًا
غنَّتْ لكَ الطَّيرُ أَو غنَّتْ لكَ الرُّجُمُ

واعملْ كما تأمُرُ الدُّنيا بلا مَضَضٍ
والجمْ شُعوركَ فيها إنَّها صَنَمُ

فمنْ تأَلَّمَ لمْ تُرْحَمْ مَضَاضَتَهُ
ومنْ تجلَّدَ لم تهزأ بهِ القِمَمُ

هذي سعادَةُ دُنيانا فكنْ رجلًا
إنْ شئْتَها أَبَدَ الآباد يَبْتَسِمُ

- أبو القاسم الشابي

أريد أحجي شي عن هالأبيات بس مطفي

One is reminded of the fact that those whom Wittgenstein influenced most strongly, particularly in the 1930s, did not enter academic life. There is therefore a large and important aspect of Wittgenstein’s influence that is not, and cannot be, reflected in the large body of academic literature that Wittgenstein’s work has inspired.

- The Duty Of Genius (a biography of Ludwig Wittgenstein)

أعتقد تأثير فيتكنشتاين الحقيقي ما جان بسبب ما كتبه ونشره (هو أصلًا ما نشر غير مقالة وكتاب واحد طول حياته). تأثيره الحقيقي جان عبر حياته الشخصية وكونه أثّر بشكل قوي بحياة هواي ناس جانوا همّ أيضًا مؤثرين كلٌّ بمجاله الخاص: بيرتراند راسل وجورج إدوارد موور والـ Vienna circle بمجال الفلسفة، وكاينز بمجال الإقتصاد، وغيرهم هواي بمجالات مثل الطب والرياضيات وغيرها...

His magnum opus, his greatest work, was his own personal life and what he said and did daily, which is by definition more personal and harder to access. One of his friends described him: "he had all the characteristics of a prophet"

"Well, God has arrived. I met him on the 5:15 train. He has a plan to stay in Cambridge permanently."

- J. M. Keynes describing Wittgenstein to his wife.

His point of view and his attitude toward people and problems, even theoretical problems, were much more similar to those of a creative artist than to those of a scientist; one might almost say, similar to those of a religious prophet or a seer.

- Rudolf Carnap, one of the members of Vienna circle

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نسيت أذكر Alan Turing اللي جانت بينهم نقاشات طويلة ولطيفة

"Good and Evil are God's prejudices"—said the serpent.

- The Joyful Wisdom

One word that comes from your heart would mean more to me than 3 pages out of your head!

— Ludwig Wittgenstein, in a letter to a friend