A man is never happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something that he thinks will make him so; he seldom attains his goal, and when he does, it is only to be disappointed; he is mostly shipwrecked in the end, and comes into harbour with mast and rigging gone. And then, it is all one whether he is happy or miserable; for his life was never anything more than a present moment always vanishing; and now it is over.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

الإنسانُ لن يكون سعيدًا أبدًا، لأنّه يقضي حياته سعيًا وراءَ شيءٍ يظنُّ أنّه سيجعله كذلك؛ نادرًا ما يحقِّق المرءُ هدفَه، وحين يفعل، سيشعر بالخيبة؛ إذ في تلك اللحظة، لن يكون سوى بقايا سفينةٍ محطَّمة تصل إلى الميناء* بلا صاريةٍ أو شراع. وحينها سوف يتساوى بالنسبة له الشقاء والسعادة؛ لأنّ حياته كلها لم تكن سوى لحظةٍ واحدةٍ حاضرة دائمة الزوال؛ والآن قد انقضت.

- آرثر شوبنهاور
*الميناء: يقصد به نهاية العمر، الموت

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اللحظةُ الحاضرة هي مُلكك النهائي. اقبض على اللحظة. أطيافُ الماضي وهواجس المستقبل تجتمع على التهام الحاضر الذي لا نملك سواه

- ماركوس اوريليوس

اعتقد الفويس الثاني والثالث اهم من البقية
And I'm not saying that bcuz I was talking about the brain

والله وكت، قبل سنة جنت كلشي ماعرف عن الـ neuro anatomy... هسة داشمّر midbrain regions عالعالم

Oath of the Horatii,
By Jacques-Louis David

So the abolition of the slave trade, rather than making slavery in Africa wither away, simply led to a redeployment of the slaves, who were now used within Africa rather than in the Americas.

- Why Nations Fail

Good intentions are not enough to create good consequences

What is a poet?

An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through them, it sounds like lovely music.... And people flock around the poet and say: 'Sing again soon' - that is, 'May new sufferings torment your soul but your lips be fashioned as before, for the cry would only frighten us, but the music, that is blissful.

Neuroanatomists categorize themselves into “clumpers” and “splitters” based on how they like to organize the brain. Clumpers prefer to simplify the brain into as few sections as possible, while splitters divide the brain into thousands of pieces, all with their own Latin or Greek names. To make things even more confusing, splitters like to throw into the mix the name of the scientist who first described that brain area, so we end up with names like “Zuckerkandl’s fasciculus,” “the ventral tegmental relay zone of Giolli,” and the “nucleus reticularis tegmenti pontis of Bechterew.” This is one of the reasons medical students are terrified of their first course in neuroscience.

- The psychopath inside

Spinal cord injury (SCI) at C4