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  • #1
    Oscar Wilde
    “Beauty is a form of Genius--is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in the dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. It cannot be questioned. It has divine right of sovereignty. It makes princes of those who have it.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #2
    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #3
    William Shakespeare
    “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
    William Shakespeare, As You Like It

  • #4
    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    Mark Twain

  • #5
    Albert Einstein
    “I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #6
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #7
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “I am alone in the midst of these happy, reasonable voices. All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other. In Heaven's name, why is it so important to think the same things all together. ”
    Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

  • #8
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “My thought is me: that's why I can't stop. I exist because I think… and I can't stop myself from thinking. At this very moment - it's frightful - if I exist, it is because I am horrified at existing. I am the one who pulls myself from the nothingness to which I aspire.”
    Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

  • #9
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Poor people are subject to fancies — this is a provision of nature.”
    Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Poor Folk

  • #10
    Gustave Le Bon
    “The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if error seduce them. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim. An individual in a crowd is a grain of sand amid other grains of sand, which the wind stirs up at will.”
    Gustave Le Bon, سيكولوجية الجماهير

  • #11
    Gustave Le Bon
    “Crowds exhibit a docile respect for force, And are but slightly impressed by kindness, Which for them is scarcely other than a form of weakness. Their sympathies have never been bestowed upon easy going masters, but the tyrants who vigorously oppressed them. It is to these latter that they always erect the loftiest statues. It is true that they willingly trample on the despot whom they have stripped of his power, but it is because having lost his power he resumes his place among the feeble who are to be despised because they are not to be feared. The type of hero dear to a crowd will always have the semblance of a Caesar, His insignia attract them, His authority overawes them, and his sword instils them with fear.”
    Gustave Le Bon, The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind
    tags: power

  • #12
    Yann Martel
    “I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how well I know. It has no decency, respects no law or convention, shows no mercy. It goes for your weakest spot, which it finds with unnerving ease. It begins in your mind, always ... so you must fight hard to express it. You must fight hard to shine the light of words upon it. Because if you don't, if your fear becomes a wordless darkness that you avoid, perhaps even manage to forget, you open yourself to further attacks of fear because you never truly fought the opponent who defeated you.”
    Yann Martel, Life of Pi

  • #13
    Yann Martel
    “When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.”
    Yann Martel, Life of Pi

  • #14
    “Kim bilir belki de…
    Şeytan, Tanrı’nın bilinçaltından başka bir şey değildir.
    ...
    Kutsal kitaplar sanattan ve sanatçılardan en az söz eden kitaplardır…
    ...
    Bütün hibeler, bağışlar, sadakalar ve teberrular hayırsever işadamlarının yoksulluk sayesinde yaptıkları varlıklarının yoksullara dağıttıkları yüzdeleridir.
    ...
    Bugün herkes tüketmeye çalıştığı nesnelerin üretiminde çalışarak tüketilen birer nesnedir. Hem üretici hem de tüketici olarak iki ucundan yakılmış bir mumdur.
    ...
    “Gerçekten çok şanslıyım, çünkü mutsuzluğumu bedavaya getiriyorum.” derdi bir berduş. “Kimileri her gün on iki saat çalışarak ve kucak dolusu para harcayarak bu hale geliyorlar. Evet ben de herkes kadar keyifsiz ve yalnızım. Ama bunun için ne sabah dokuz akşam beş çalışıyorum ne de üstüne para veriyorum.”
    ...
    Dünyanın kanseri işadamlarıdır.
    Çünkü ancak kanser hücreleri beslendikleri organizmayı harap ederek çoğalırlar.
    Büyümek için büyü.
    Çoğalmak için çoğal.
    İlerlemek için ilerle.
    Kalkınmak için kalkın.
    Kapitalizmin ve kanserin ideolojileri birbirlerinin tıpatıp aynısıdır.
    ...
    Çalışmaktan bir hak gibi bahsedilmesi ve bunun anayasalara girmesi ne garip!
    Çalışmak ne bir hak, ne de bir ödevdir. Kötü bir kaderdir sadece…
    Sakat veya göle doğmak gibi.
    ...

    Aylaklık; düşünmek, duymak ve yaşamak için bağdaş kurmaktır. Çalışmak ise bir gün bağdaş kurabilmek için boşu boşuna koşuşturmaktır.
    ...
    Bir işadamının onca emekle çalışarak, çalıştırarak ve koşuşturarak yarattığına bakın; bacası tüten bir fabrika. Bir de sanatçıların yarattıklarına bakın; Mayıs ayında Floransa.
    ...
    “Küçük, bedensel ve geçici hazları küçümseyrek ruhsal, büyük ve ilahi hazları arayan keşişlere, dervişlere, Hint’ten ve Rum’dan gelen ermişlere, sufilere, bilgelere sakın kanmayın.” diye fısıldadı Şeytan. “Hazzı hep göklerde arayanlar yeryüzünde bulamayan kabızlardır. Bu arif, aşık ve cümle evliya takımı işte böyledir; kendi kabızlık ve kasvetlerine gizemli mazeretler ararlar aslında.”
    ...
    Cennetten kovulduğumuzda Tanrılar bize hem hatıra hem de yolluk olsun diyerek sadece üç şey verdiler. Biri haz, diğeri neşe, öbürü de dans. Gerisini; ayrılığı ve hastalığı, acıyı ve keder, can sıkıntısını ve her biri birbirinden boş ümitleri hep burada bulduk. İşte bu yüzden en doğru felsefelerin temeli neşe, sevnç, coşku ve hevestir. Kahkahalar ise yapıtaşları.
    ...
    Düş kırıklıklarımızın yegane sebebi, çabanın hissesini daha yüksek sanmamızdır.
    ...
    Kendimi bilmek ruhumu sıkıyor.
    Kendini bilenler de canımı.
    ...
    Ne yapmak ve ne olmak istediklerini çok iyi bilen insanlara ise acıyorum. Hiç mi hayal güçleri yok?
    ...
    Yunanca’daki mutluluk (eudaimonia) sözünün içinde Şeytan (daimon) gizlidir. Bu bir tesadüf mü, yoksa bu olağanüstü adamların bilgeliklerinin yeni bir zirvesi mi? Eski Yunanlılar için Şeytan, bize doğru yolu gösteren iç sesimize verdiğimiz isimdir. Bu demektir ki, Yunanca mutlu olmak istiyorsanız Şeytan’ı işin içine karıştırmalısınız.
    ...
    İnsan doğar, yaşar ve ölür.
    Doğru da belki o sırayla değil.
    ...
    Kadın terk edildiği ve aldatıldığı zamanlarda, bir de boşanırken hiç tereddüt etmez; kararlı, şuurlu ve son derece akıllı bir biçimde bütün umumi strateji ve nokta hücumu taktikleriyle delirir.
    ...
    Feminizm; erkeklerin egemenliğindeki bir pazarda kadının kadınlığını değil işgücünü, aklını ve zamanını satmaya çalışmasıdır. Üretime, tüketime ve çalışmaya tapan bir toplumda kadının cinsiyetini bir mal olmaktan çıkartıp, bütün varoluşunu bir mal haline getirme gayretidir.
    Eğer bu özgürlük olsaydı, bütün erkekler ezelden beri özgürdüler.
    ...
    -Kadın 20. yüzyılda özgürlüğüne kavuştu.
    -Yok yahu! Peki sonra ne oldu?
    -Hiç. İş kölesi oldu.
    ...
    Aforizma edebiyatın salçasıdır. Sadece aforizma yersen kusarsın.”
    Emre Yılmaz, Şeytanın Fısıldadıkları

  • #15
    Gündüz Vassaf
    “Kendi günlük yaşantılarımız da, kollektif cinneti nasıl savunduğumuzu gösteren basit örneklerle dolu. Hızlı, daha hızlı arabalar imal etmek ve satın almak için milyarlar harcarken, bir yandan da hız limitini denetlemeye ve azaltmaya çalışıyoruz. Yeryüzünde yaşayabileceğimiz bir sürü yer olduğu halde o kadar sıkışıp kaldık ki, ne zaman yürüyüp ne zaman duracağımızı gösteren ışıklara muhtacız.”
    Gündüz Vassaf, Cehenneme Övgü: Gündelik Hayatta Totalitarizm

  • #16
    Stefan Zweig
    “Besides, isn't it confoundedly easy to think you're a great man if you aren't burdened with the slightest idea that Rembrandt, Beethoven, Dante or Napoleon ever lived?”
    Stefan Zweig, Chess Story

  • #17
    Sabahattin Ali
    “Göreceksiniz ya, ben dünyadan ziyade kafamın içinde yaşayan bir insanım... Hakiki hayatım benim için can sıkıcı bir rüyadan başka bir şey değildir...”
    Sabahattin Ali, Kürk Mantolu Madonna

  • #18
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.”
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

  • #19
    Wilhelm Reich
    “You differ from a great man in only one respect: the great man was once a very little man, but he developed one important quality: he recognized the smallness and narrowness of his thoughts and actions. Under the pressure of some task that meant a great deal to him, he learned to see how his smallness, his pettiness endangered his happiness. In other words, a great man knows when and in what way he is a little man. A little man does not know he is little and is afraid to know. He hides his pettiness and narrowness behind illusions of strength and greatness, someone else's strength and greatness. He's proud of his great generals but not of himself. He admires an idea he has not had, not one he has had. The less he understands something, the more firmly he believes in it. And the better he understands an idea, the less he believes in it.”
    Wilhelm Reich, Listen, Little Man!

  • #20
    Wilhelm Reich
    “You'll have a good, secure life when being alive means more to you than security, love more than money, your freedom more than public or partisan opinion, when the mood of Beethoven's or Bach's music becomes the mood of your whole life … when your thinking is in harmony, and no longer in conflict, with your feelings … when you let yourself be guided by the thoughts of great sages and no longer by the crimes of great warriors … when you pay the men and women who teach your children better than the politicians; when truths inspire you and empty formulas repel you; when you communicate with your fellow workers in foreign countries directly, and no longer through diplomats...”
    Wilhelm Reich, Listen, Little Man!

  • #21
    Wilhelm Reich
    “Because you have no memory for things that happened ten or twenty years ago, you're still mouthing the same nonsense as two thousand years ago. Worse, you cling with might and main to such absurdities as 'race,' 'class,' 'nation,' and the obligation to observe a religion and repress your love.”
    Wilhelm Reich, Listen, Little Man!

  • #22
    Wilhelm Reich
    “You don't believe that your friend could ever do anything great. You despise yourself in secret, even – no, especially – when you stand on your dignity; and since you despise yourself, you are unable to respect your friend. You can't bring yourself to believe that anyone you have sat at table with, or shared a house with, is capable of great achievement. That is why all great men have been solitary. It is hard to think in your company, little man. One can only think 'about' you, or 'for your benefit', not 'with' you, for you stifle all big, generous ideas.”
    Wilhelm Reich, Listen, Little Man!

  • #23
    Wilhelm Reich
    “It is the fate of great achievements, born from a way of life that sets truth before security, to be gobbled up by you and excreted in the form of shit. For centuries great, brave, lonely men have been telling you what to do. Time and again you have corrupted, diminished and demolished their teachings; time and again you have been captivated by their weakest points, taken not the great truth, but some trifling error as your guiding principal. This, little man, is what you have done with Christianity, with the doctrine of sovereign people, with socialism, with everything you touch. Why, you ask, do you do this? I don't believe you really want an answer. When you hear the truth you'll cry bloody murder, or commit it. … You had your choice between soaring to superhuman heights with Nietzsche and sinking into subhuman depths with Hitler. You shouted Heil! Heil! and chose the subhuman. You had the choice between Lenin's truly democratic constitution and Stalin's dictatorship. You chose Stalin's dictatorship. You had your choice between Freud's elucidation of the sexual core of your psychic disorders and his theory of cultural adaptation. You dropped the theory of sexuality and chose his theory of cultural adaptation, which left you hanging in mid-air. You had your choice between Jesus and his majestic simplicity and Paul with his celibacy for priests and life-long compulsory marriage for yourself. You chose the celibacy and compulsory marriage and forgot the simplicity of Jesus' mother, who bore her child for love and love alone. You had your choice between Marx's insight into the productivity of your living labor power, which alone creates the value of commodities and the idea of the state. You forgot the living energy of your labor and chose the idea of the state. In the French Revolution, you had your choice between the cruel Robespierre and the great Danton. You chose cruelty and sent greatness and goodness to the guillotine. In Germany you had your choice between Goring and Himmler on the one hand and Liebknecht, Landau, and Muhsam on the other. You made Himmler your police chief and murdered your great friends. You had your choice between Julius Streicher and Walter Rathenau. You murdered Rathenau. You had your choice between Lodge and Wilson. You murdered Wilson. You had your choice between the cruel Inquisition and Galileo's truth. You tortured and humiliated the great Galileo, from whose inventions you are still benefiting, and now, in the twentieth century, you have brought the methods of the Inquisition to a new flowering. … Every one of your acts of smallness and meanness throws light on the boundless wretchedness of the human animal. 'Why so tragic?' you ask. 'Do you feel responsible for all evil?' With remarks like that you condemn yourself. If, little man among millions, you were to shoulder the barest fraction of your responsibility, the world would be a very different place. Your great friends wouldn't perish, struck down by your smallness.”
    Wilhelm Reich, Listen, Little Man!

  • #24
    Wilhelm Reich
    “I want you to stop being subhuman and become 'yourself'. 'Yourself,' I say. Not the newspaper you read, not your vicious neighbor's opinion, but 'yourself.' I know, and you don't, what you really are deep down. Deep down, you are what a deer, your God, your poet, or your philosopher is. But you think you're a member of the VFW, your bowling club, or the Ku Klux Klan, and because you think so, you behave as you do. This too was told you long ago, by Heinrich Mann in Germany, by Upton Sinclair and John Dos Passos in the United States. But you recognized neither Mann nor Sinclair. You recognize only the heavyweight champion and Al Capone. If given your choice between a library and a fight, you'll undoubtedly go to the fight.”
    Wilhelm Reich, Listen, Little Man!

  • #25
    Ernest Hemingway
    “I’m not brave any more darling. I’m all broken. They’ve broken me.”
    Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

  • #26
    Oscar Wilde
    “You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #27
    Oscar Wilde
    “Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #28
    Oscar Wilde
    “Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #29
    Oscar Wilde
    “Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #30
    Oscar Wilde
    “Some things are more precious because they don't last long.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray



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