Elin adamı ne anlar senden?
خیام! که گفت دوزخی خواهد بود؟ که رفت به دوزخ و که آمد ز بهشت؟
İnsanlık bu kadar ilerlerken insanlar neden yerinde sayıyor?
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
ملت نیجه تاراج اولور - اولسون، نه ایشیم وار؟! دشمنلره محتاج اولور - اولسون نه ایشیم وار؟!
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
خواندن دروازهٔ حیات فکری است؛ می‌تواند ما را به آن هدایت کند، اما برسازندهٔ آن نیست
If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.
محقق به هیزم و خاکستر توجه دارد، جستارنویس به آتش
I am not what I am.
If you want to make a living flower, you don't build it physically, with tweezers, cell by cell. You grow it from the seed
تنها گلی که انسان مستقیماً و تکه به تکه ساخته است گل مصنوعی است
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working simple system.
I've had a sign over my typewriter for 25 years which reads: Don't think. You must never think at the typewriter. You must feel. And then your intellect is always buried in that feeling anyway.
عقل گوید شش جهت حدست و بیرون راه نیست | عشق گوید راه هست و رفته‌ام من بارها
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.
Economics is all about how people make choices [and] sociology is about why they don't have any choices to make.
آنچه که ذی‌نفعان غیرمتخصص در یک سیستم می‌خواهند حاصل شود، بسیار مرتبط‌تر از آن چیزی است که متخصصان غیرذی‌نفع در طلب آن هستند.
Rituals are in time as things are in space. They stabilize life by structuring time.
Those searching for divine need not descend to hell for fuel.
Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.
If it keeps coming back, it's not a thought, it's a feeling
A players hire A players, B players hire C players, and C players hire losers. Let your standards slip once and you're only two generations away from death.
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
A writer must think that all things have been given to us for a purpose. All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.
انسان تنها از زمانی موضوع علم قرار گرفته است که فروش اتومبیل از ساخت آن دشوارتر شده است.
Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.
The product of an idealized design is not an ideal state or system, but an ideal-seeking state or system.
Intellectualism is a common cover up for fear of direct experience.
The first death is in the heart.
خر عیسی گرش به مکه برند | چون بیاید هنوز خر باشد
Loneliness is still time spent with the world.
The time will pass anyway.
An old alchemist gave the following consolation to one of his disciples: “No matter how isolated you are and how lonely you feel, if you do your work truly and conscientiously, unknown friends will come and seek you."
you cannot cure an irrational problem rationally
Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.
Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
Fear is "what if", faith is "even if"
نوشتهٔ خوب خبری است که خبر می‌ماند.
I make all my decisions on intuition. But then, I must know why I made that decision. I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I must send an army into the darkness to find the spear. That is intellect.
People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
Yet if the only form of tradition, of handing down, consisted in following the ways of the immediate generation before us in a blind or timid adherence to its successes, "tradition" should positively be discouraged. We have seen many such simple currents soon lost in the sand; and novelty is better than repetition. Tradition is a matter of much wider significance. It cannot be inherited, and if you want it you must obtain it by great labour.