Dani ki çist dovlet didar-ı yar diden
Derkuy-ı o gedayi berhusrevi guziden
~
Bilir misin devlet nedir? Sevgiliyi görmek, onun civarında yoksulluğu padişahlıkta üstün tutmak!
A good night sleep, or a ten minute bawl, or a pint of chocolate ice cream, or all three together, is good medicine.
~İyi bir gece uykusu, on dakikalık bir haykırış, biraz çikolatalı dondurma ya da üçü birlikte iyi bir ilaçtır.
‘I remember something Levinas often says, namely that morality, ethics, begins with an "After you:'. The first sign of respect for the other is "after you." This doesn't just mean something like "go ahead" at the elevator, etc., It means " I come after you,"’
Justice, force. It is just that what is just be followed; it is necessary that what is strongest be followed. Justice without force is impotent; force without justice is tyrannical. Justice without force is contradicted, because there are always bad people; force without justice stands accused. So justice and force must be put together; and to do so make what is just, strong and what is strong, just.
Justice is subject to dispute; force is easy to recognize and indisputable. And so one could not give force to justice, because force contradicted justice and said that it was unjust, and said that it was force that was just. And thus not being able to make what is just, strong; one made what is strong, just.
Gestern gen Abend sprach zu mir meine stillste Stunde: das ist der Name meiner furchtbaren Herrin" [Last night my hour of supreme silence (my hour of the greatest silence, of sovereign si- lence) spoke to me: this is the name of my terrifying sovereign mistress: "das ist der Name meiner furchtbaren Herrin."]
Tutunamayanlar
«Bir yandan da, her şeye rağmen savunmasız ve narin olduklarını gösteren yapmacıklarını elden bırakmazlar: 'Canım şu ipi şuraya takar mısın? Canım senin boyun yetişir ya da sen benden kuvvetlisin.' Yani senin bütün üstünlüklerin, basit ve hayvani temellere dayanır. Sonra, küçük bir aksama olunca: 'Dur canım, bir de ben denesem' sahteliği. 'Uzun boylu hayvan! Beni kuvvetli kollarınla alıp götürdün; şimdi, bir çamaşır ipini takamıyorsun işte»
“Just leave your mind alone. Any effort to calm it will only stir its muddy waters. Let it become still, by just leaving it alone.”
~Brian Thompson (photographer and filmmaker, not the actor one)
Alphonse Daudet Quand vous parlez, mon cœur bat comme un tambourin.
Je ne vous aime pas, c’est dit, je vous déteste,
Je vous crains comme on craint l’enfer, de peur du feu ;
Comme on craint le typhus, le choléra, la peste,
Je vous hais à la mort, madame ; mais, mon Dieu !
Expliquez-moi pourquoi je pleure, quand je reste
Deux jours sans vous parler et sans vous voir un peu.”
“The art has three factors, the disease, the patient, the physician. The physician is the servant of the art. The patient must cooperate with the physician in combating the disease.”
Hippocrates, Epidemics, I, 11