And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great. And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found.

[Revelations 16:18-20]

And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit.

And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.

And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.

[Revelations 9]

in the fine arts, in music, literature, and cinema, it is possible to reach a deeper stratum of truth—a poetic, ecstatic truth, which is mysterious and can only be grasped with effort; one attains it through vision, style, and craft. In this context I see the quotation from Blaise Bascal about the collapse of the stellar universe not as a fake [“counterfeit”; Fälschung], but as a means of making possible an ecstatic experience of inner, deeper truth. Just as it’s not fakery when Michelangelo’s Pietà portrays Jesus as a 33-year-old man, and his mother, the mother of God, as a 17-year-old.

- Werner Herzog

يمكن للبشر باستخدام الفنون، الموسيقى، الأدب، والسينما، أنْ يصلوا إلى مستوى أعمق من الحقيقة—حقيقةٍ شاعرية وصوفية لا يمكن الوصول لها إلا بعد جهدٍ حثيث؛ لا يصل المرء لهذه الحقائق إلا عبر الرؤيا، الأسلوب، والحرفة التي توفرها الفنون. بهذا السياق، أنا لا أرى إقتباس بليز باسكال مزيّفًا، بل أراه وسيلةً للشعور بحقيقة أعمق وأكثر وجدانيةً. كما أنّه ليس من المزيف تصوير مايكل أنجيلو ليسوع المسيح بهيئة رجل بعمر الـ 33، وتصوير والدته، مريم العذراء، بهيئة شابة في الـ 17 من العمر.

- فيرنر هيرزوك

Beethoven, van Gogh, Newton, Einstein, Darwin, Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods. These are the people whose contributions leave their fields forever changed, the pathfinders who lead the way into new territory so that others can follow.

- Peak, by Anders Ericsson

Research on the most successful creative people in various fields, particularly science, finds that creativity goes hand in hand with the ability to work hard and maintain focus over long stretches of time—exactly the ingredients of deliberate practice that produced their expert abilities in the first place. For example, a study of Nobel Prize winners found that they had generally published scientific papers earlier than most of their peers and that they published significantly more papers throughout their careers than others in their discipline. In other words, they worked harder than everyone else.

- Peak, by Anders Ericsson

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اوكي طلعت اني living under a rock

'Napoleon Sonata' by Niccolo Paganini

'Love Duet' by Niccolo Paganini

“Those who tell the stories rule the world” -Hopi Indian

“Those who tell the stories rule society” -Plato

One Day Every One In The World Will Completely Forget You Ever Existed