German: wir lieben das Leben, nicht, weil wir an’s Leben, sondern weil wir an’s Lieben gewöhnt sind.

English: we love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

- Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Wittgenstein was once asked: ‘What answer can one give to a philosopher who believes that the statements of phenomenology are synthetic a priori judgements?’

To this, Wittgenstein replied: ‘[...] It is indeed possible to make up words, but I cannot associate a thought with them.’

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It is one thing to write as poet and another to write as a historian: the poet can recount or sing about things not as they were, but as they should have been, and the historian must write about them not as they should have been, but as they were, without adding or subtracting anything from the truth.

*Truth, whose mother is history, who is the rival of time, depository of deeds, witness of the past, example and lesson to the present, and warning to the future.

"He is most blessed who loves the most, the freest who is most enslaved by love."

لا أعتَقَ اللهُ رِقّي مِن صَبابَتِكُم
ما ضَرَّني أنّني صَبٌّ بِكُم قَلِقُ

ليش حاسة الشم تخلينا نتذكر ذكريات قديمة ما ندري أنها موجودة حتى، وتأثر على مشاعرنا ورغباتنا وغرائزنا بكل هاي القوة؟

By David Rijckaert III

The perfume maker,
By Rodulf Ernst

The sense of smell captivates our memory, appetite, and sexual drive more than any other sense. It is the most visceral of them because it directly activates our older, more animalistic, parts of our brains. It penetrates deep to the centers of emotion, sex, memory, and hunger: the amygdala, the hypothalamus, and the hippocampus.

إنّ قدرة حاسة الشم على تملُّكنا بطريقة بدائية وغريزية تأتي من كونها تفعّل أجزاءً قديمةً جدًا من أدمغتنا نتشاركها مع الكثير من الحيوانات (حتى البسيطة منها)، ولهذا لها سلطانٌ على الذاكرة والجوع والشهوة بشكلٍ لا تماثله أيُّ حاسةٍ أُخرى.