What makes philosophy so garrulous is not the profundity of philosophers, but their lack of art; they are like physicians who sought to cure a slight hyperacidity by giving the patient a carload of burned oyster-shells to eat. There is, too, the endless poll-parrotting that goes on: each new philosopher must prove his learning by laboriously rehearsing the ideas of all previous philosophers… . Nietzsche avoided both faults. He always assumed that his readers knew the books, and that it was thus unnecessary to rewrite them. And, having an idea that seemed to him to be novel and original, he stated it in as few words as possible, and then shut down.

— H.L. mencken

ليسَ عُمقُ الفلاسفة هو ما يجعَلُ الفلسفةَ مليئةً بالهَذَرِ والثرثرة، بل انعدام مهارتِهم؛ إذ ترى واحدَهم مثلَ طبيبٍ يرى أنّ العلاجَ لحرقةِ المعدة هو بأكلِ 100 كيلوغرامٍ من الأصداف المحروقة*. هذا بالإضافة لكونِهم مثل ببغاوات تكرِّر ما لا تفهم: فَكلُّ فيلسوفٍ جديد يحفظُ بشكلٍ دؤوب أفكارَ كل الفلاسفةِ السابقين لكي يُثبِتَ سِعةَ عِلمِه... . أمّا نيتشه، فقد تَجاوَزَ الخطأينِ السابقين. إذ كان يفترضُ دائمًا أنّ قُراءَه يعرِفونَ كتب الفلسفةِ التي كان يتحدث عنها، لهذا فمن غيرِ الضروري تلخيصُها وإعادةُ توضيحها. وعندما تأتيه فكرةٌ تبدو له جديدةً وأصيلة، كان يصوغُها بأقلِّ عددٍ ممكنٍ من الكلماتِ، ثُمَّ يَسكُت.

*حرقةُ المعدة كانَت لقرون تُعالَج بأكل كميات قليلة (وليس 100 كيلوغرام) من الأصداف المطحونة أو المحروقة أو الطباشير، لأنها كلها تحتوي على كاربونات الكالسيوم.

هالشي لأن كاربونات الكالسيوم (CaCO3) اللي بالطباشير والأصداف هي مادة قاعدية، وبيئة المعدة حامضية، فيتعادلون

Intrinsically there should be no more choice between Islam and Christianity than there is between an Arab and a Jew. The decision is already reached; nobody remains at liberty to choose here. Either a man is a Chandala or he is not… . “War to the knife with Rome! Peace and friendship with Islam!”: this was the feeling, this was the act, of that great free spirit, that genius among German emperors, Frederick II.

— The Antichrist, by Friedrich Nietzsche

A theory on how language evolved:

Death by Jacek Malczewski (1854–1929)

Happy 44th birthday, Eva Green!

Medusa's face,
By Franz von Stuck

The Druids,
By Julia Tar

"Better never means better for everyone. It always means worse, for some."

Just as water is the element of fish, the element of human beings is language.

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as the greatest virtues.

— René Descartes

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If I had to define a major depression in a single sentence, I would describe it as a "genetic/neurochemical disorder requiring a strong environmental trigger whose characteristic manifestation is an inability to appreciate sunsets.

(Robert M. Sapolsky)

بيج الانستغرام، تشرفوني جميعًا✨

It's up to brave hearts, sir, to be patient when things are going badly, as well as being happy when they're going well..
For I've heard that what they call fortune is a flighty woman who drinks too much, and, what's more, she's blind, so she can't see what she's doing, and she doesn't know who she's knocking over or who she's raising up.

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Politics is the art of after-the-fact* rationalization.

*Latin: post-hoc

A politician first conceives an agenda or an objective, then he or she rationalizes it and makes it sound as if it is being implemented for the benefit of the people. It's not a feature of Iraqi politics, but of politics as such.