First of all, love is a joint experience between two persons — but the fact that it is
a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people
involved. There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different
countries. Often the beloved is only a stimulus for all the stored-up love which has lain
Adam; bilinenin aksine erkek değil, insan demek. Kelimenin köküne gidince asıl anlamının toprak olduğunu görüyoruz.
Aynı durum İngilizcede de var. İnsan anlamına gelen human da toprak mânâsındaki humus ile akraba.
İnsan ve toprak, her dilde birbirine yakın iki akraba.
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"... Here in your university, intelligence, education, knowledge, have all become great idols. But I know there's one thing you've all overlooked: intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn."
Sayfa 173
Asa: I'm quick to convince myself someone likes me... Then when I'm wrong, my feelings get hurt. A life of solitude really would be better than feeling like this. There's nothing even good about me. Who am I even living for? I only care about myself. Yet whenever I get lonely, I crave companionship. How arrogant is that? I'm just tired. Tired of my inability to maintain a lasting relationship with another human being. Maybe I'd be better off dead...
Yoru: Bullying is a commonality in communities without social fluidity, both human and devil.
"No human is always strong, but then no human is weak for ever, either."
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“She had thought, in her nocturnal and suicidal hours, that solitude was the problem. But that was because it hadn’t been true solitude. The lonely mind in the busy city yearns for connection because it thinks human-to-human connection is the point of everything. But amid pure nature (or the ‘tonic of wildness’ as Thoreau called it) solitude took on a different character. It became in itself a kind of connection. A connection between herself and the world. And between her and herself.”
Friedrich Nietzsche, The free spirit
" There is some point of to 'truth' , to the search for truth; and if a human being goes about it too humanely - i wager he finds nothing!"
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To be in touch with truth, we do not have to go to the core of the galaxy, because the core of a human being is also the same thing.
I am blue, but not like the sky.
I am black, but not like the darkness.
I am human like everyone else.
He looked very small atop the horse. For the first time, she saw him for what he was: not a fearsome shaman, not a mysterious Seer, but just a boy, really. She’d always thought Chaghan so ethereally powerful, so detached from the realm of mortals. But he was human after all, smaller and thinner than the rest of them.
"It is with human beings as it is with this tree.
The more they aspire to the heights and the light, the more strongly their roots strive earthward, downward, into darkness, depths – into evil.”
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Why are we such fools
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╰┈➤ “One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon—instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today. Why are we such fools —such tragic fools?”
— — 𝑫𝒂𝒍𝒆 𝑪𝒂𝒓𝒏𝒆𝒈𝒊𝒆, 𝑯𝒐𝒘 𝒕𝒐 𝑺𝒕𝒐𝒑 𝑾𝒐𝒓𝒓𝒚𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑺𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒕 𝑳𝒊𝒗𝒊𝒏𝒈
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Dale Carnegie
"It is true: we love life not because we are accustomed to life but because we are accustomed to love.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
And even to me, one who likes life, it seems butterflies and soap bubbles and whatever is of their kind among human beings know most about happiness."
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