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أَفَرَأَيْتَ مَنِ اتَّخَذَ إِلَٰهَهُ هَوَاهُ [سورة الجاثية]
وَقَالُوا مَا هِيَ إِلَّا حَيَاتُنَا الدُّنْيَا نَمُوتُ وَنَحْيَا وَمَا يُهْلِكُنَا إِلَّا الدَّهْرُ
[سورة الجاثية]
[سورة الجاثية]
The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets successfully through bad nights.
— Beyond Good and Evil
— Beyond Good and Evil
Like a machine of perpetual motion, a great man must learn to make his own force and fire, even if that means setting oneself on fire. One must find within an inexhaustible spring of the will. But just like machines of perpetual motion, do they practically exist?
Gallows humor (n.)
Humor that makes fun of a life-threatening, disastrous, or terrifying situation.
Humor that makes fun of a life-threatening, disastrous, or terrifying situation.
لأنّ ذاتَه تعالى إقتضت بحسبِ مراتب الأُلوهية والربوبية صفاتٍ متعددةً متقابلة كاللطف والقَهر، والرحمة والغضب، والرضا والسَّخط وغيرها. وتجمَعُها النعوتُ الجمالية والجلالية. إذ كلُّ ما يتعلّق باللطف هو الجمال وما يتعلق بالقهر هو الجلال. ولكلِّ جمالٍ أيضًا جلال.
— فصوص الحكم، لـ مُحيي الدين بن عربي
— فصوص الحكم، لـ مُحيي الدين بن عربي
Forwarded from Religio Medici
I have found strength where one does not look for it: in simple, mild, and pleasant people, in a peasant more than in a king, in people without the least desire to rule—and, conversely, the desire to rule has often appeared to me a sign of inward weakness: they fear their own slave soul and shroud it in a royal cloak (in the end, they still become the slaves of their followers, their admirers, their fame, etc.) The powerful natures dominate, it is a necessity, they need not lift one finger. Even if, during their lifetime, they bury themselves in a garden house.
— Nietzsche, Nachlass.
— Nietzsche, Nachlass.