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You think that the world we live in is ordinary. We make noise and static to fill the empty spaces where ghosts live. We let other people grow our food, bleach our clothes. We seal ourselves in, clean the dirt from our skins, eat of animals whose blood does not stain our hands. We long ago left the ways of our ancestors, oracles and blood sacrifice, traffic with the spirit world, listening for the voices out of stones and trees. But maybe sometimes you have felt the uncanny, alone at night in a dark wood, or waiting by the edge of the ocean for the tide to come in. We have paved over the ancient world, but that does not mean we have erased it. ↗

— Sarah McCarry

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Philosophical reflection could not leave the relation of mind and spirit in the obscurity which had satisfied the needs of the naive consciousness. ↗

— Wilhelm Wundt

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Well, it is in fact possible to put things behind you, Rakel. The art of dealing with ghosts is to dare to look at them long and hard until you know that is what they are. Ghosts. Lifeless, powerless ghosts. ↗

— Jo Nesbø

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You know what turns dirt into diamonds?" "Pressure. Weight. Heat..." "The geological equivalent of torture. ↗

— Laura Argiri

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There's only one thing you can do: Toss your pebble in the river, watch it ripple, and know you have moved the ocean. ↗

— K.M. Douglas

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I have never since entirely freed myself of the impression that this life is a segment of existence which is enacted in a three-dimensional boxlike universe especially set up for it. ↗

— C.G. Jung

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Listen." Jennifer reverted, "I didn't mean anything by all of that before. I understand what you were trying to do and ..." She struggled for the right words. "Sweetie, like love, people don't live inside of life, life lives inside of you. Open yourself up to it and there's no stopping your heart. ↗

— Carroll Bryant

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I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again 'I know that that’s a tree', pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else arrives and hears this, and I tell him: 'This fellow isn’t insane. We are only doing philosophy. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say 'It's as plain as the nose on your face.' But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you? ↗

— Isaac Asimov

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انطلاقاً من آلية التفكير بالأصل، التي تؤسس للعجز العربي الراهن، من خلال تدشينها لنظام العقل التابع، إنما تجد ما يؤسسها في قلب البناء الأصولي لكل من الشافعي والأشعري، فإن هذه القراءة تجادل بأنه لا سبيل للانفلات من عوائق تلك الآلية، وآثارها التي لا تزال تتداعى حتى اليوم, استبداداً وتبعية، إلا عبر ارتداد بما يقوم وراء أصول الرائدين الكبيرين من الشرط المتعالي والمجاوز الذي جرى الإيهام بأنه - وليس سواه - هو ما يقوم وراءها، إلى الشرط الإنساني المتعيّن الذي يكاد - منفرداً - أن يحدد بناءها ويفسره، والذى تتجاوب فيه - على نحو مدهش - كل أبعاد الواقع الإنساني وعناصره، من النفسي والاجتماعي والسياسي والمعرفي. وبقدر ما يؤكد هذا التجاوب على إنسانية الشرط الذي انبثقت في إطاره أصول الرائدين، وبما ارتبط بها من آليات وطرائق في التفكير، فإنه يقطع - بذلك - بإمكان تجاوزها الانفلات من سطوتها. وهنا، يلزم التنويه بأن هذه القراءة لا تسعى إلى إنجاز ما هو أكثر من التاكيد على إمكان هذا الارتداد من "المتعالي" إلى "الإنساني ↗

— علي مبروك

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