لا صدك احتاج دعاء، باجر عندي باثو

Let pity overwhelm you for this creature who one morning detached himself from the ape, naked, defenseless, without teeth or horns, with only a spark of fire in his soft skull.

- Saviors of God

Music is the soul’s primitive and primary speech and it is without articulate speech or reason. It is not only not reasonable, it is hostile to reason. Even when articulate speech is added, it is utterly subordinate to and determined by the music and the passions it expresses.

- Allan Bloom

إنّ الموسيقى هي اللغة الأولى والبدائية للروح، وهي بلا كلام أو منطق. فهي ليست فقط غير منطقية، بل هي مُعادية للمنطق. حتى عندما تُضاف الكلمات للموسيقى—كما في الأغاني—فإنها تكون خاضعةً لها تمامًا ومحددةً من قِبلها ومن قِبل المشاعر التي تعبر عنها الموسيقى.

- آلان بلوم

Country, religion, family, ideas of civilization, all the sentimental and historical forces that stood between cosmic infinity and the individual, providing some notion of a place within the whole, have been rationalized and have lost their compelling force.

- Allan Bloom

The honesty of this generation of students causes them to laugh when asked to act as though they were powerful agents in world history.

- Allan Bloom

صراحةُ هذا الجيل من الطلاب تجعلُهم يضحكون حين يُطالبون بالتصرّف كما لو كانوا أفرادًا مؤثِّرين في تاريخ العالم.

[The younger generation has] a greater indifference to the past and a loss of a national view of the future. The only common project engaging the youthful imagination is the exploration of space, which everyone knows to be empty.

- Allan Bloom

No wonder that the one novel that remains continuously popular with students is Camus’s The Stranger.

- Allan Bloom

I just remembered my friends who love Camus,
Allan Bloom says hi 😂

And his dark secret love,
Does thy life destroy.

- William Blake, The sick Rose

The sick rose

A serenade for tenor, horn, and strings

وهاي الأغنية كاملة، ببساطة هي عبارة عن مجموعة قصائد قديمة من شعراء مختلفين.
اسمعوها وية الليركس when u feel particulary aristocratic

As soon as they envisage from afar their separation, as soon as they foresee the moment which is going to make them strangers to one another, they are already strangers. Each sets up his own little separate system; and both engrossed by the time they will no longer be together, stay only reluctantly.

- Emile, by Rousseau

The presence of choice already changes the character of relatedness.

- Allan Bloom, commenting on the above

ما أنْ يبصرا إحتمالية انفصالهما ولو بعدَ وقتٍ طويل، ما أنْ يتوقعا اللحظة التي ستجعلهما غريبَين بالنسبة لبعضهما البعض، فإنهما يكونان غريبَين بالفعل.
كلٌّ منهما يصنعُ نظامه الخاص والمنفصِل؛ وكلٌ منهما، ما دام منهَمِكًا بالتفكير بالوقتِ الذي لن يكونا به سويةً، يمكثُ مُكرَهًا مع الآخر.