“Suddenly, I could see it all so vividly: the cruelty and inhumanity of self-righteous people, who like to think that they're saints, pure as the driven snow.”
― Costas Taktsis, quote from The Third Wedding
“You really liked having him in jail, like people who shut birds up in cages on the excuse that they're protecting them from their enemies.”
― Costas Taktsis, quote from The Third Wedding
“Before it began to open new wounds, the war healed quite a few old ones: it shook us out of our lethargy, our life took on new meaning, we no longer lived without a purpose, eating and sleeping and excreting like animals.”
― Costas Taktsis, quote from The Third Wedding
“Do you really think it's behaving like a Christian to be glad when you see death and ruin falling on your fellow men? Is that what Christ taught us?”
― Costas Taktsis, quote from The Third Wedding
“Hecuba had the mistaken notion, just like my poor mama, that all a girl had to do was to get married and all her problems were solved overnight.”
― Costas Taktsis, quote from The Third Wedding
Costas Taktsis
Born place: in Thessaloniki, Greece
Born date October 8, 1927
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“هنگام مطالعهی نظریات هر فیلسوفی٬ طرز برخورد درست نه ارادت است و نه تحقیر؛ بلکه باید در آغاز امر نسبت به وی نوعی همدلی فرضی در خود پدید آوریم تا ممکن شود که بدانیم اگر به نظریات او باور داشته باشیم چه حالی خواهیم داشت؛ و فقط در این هنگام است که باید طرز برخورد انتقادی را در خود زنده کنیم. و این طرز برخورد نیز باید تا آنجا که ممکن است مانند حالت فکری شخصی باشد که میخواهد عقایدی را که تاکنون بدانها باور داشته٬ رها کند. در این جریان٬ در مرحلهی اول حس تحقیر و در مرحلهی دوم ارادت مانع کار میشود. دو چیز را باید به یاد داشت: یکی اینکه هرکس نظریاتش به مطالعه بیارزد٬ لابد از فهم و هوش بهرهای داشته است. دیگر اینکه به هیچ وجه احتمال نمیرود آنکس در موضوعی٬ هرچه باشد٬ به حقیقت کامل و نهایی رسیده باشد. هنگامی که شخص هوشمندی نظری اظهار میکند که در نظر ما آشکارا سخیف مینماید٬ نباید بکوشیم تا ثابت کنیم آن نظر به نحوی درست است؛ بلکه باید بکوشیم تا دریابیم که آن نظر چگونه درست مینماید. این طرز به کار بردن تخیل تاریخی و روانی فورا دامنهی اندیشهی ما را گسترش میدهد و به ما کمک میکند تا دریابیم در عصری که دارای طرز تفکر دیگری است چگونه بسیاری از عقاید گرامی ما احمقانه مینماید.”
― Bertrand Russell, quote from A History of Western Philosophy
“الألم هو الحقيقة ، وما سواه يخضع للشك.”
― J.M. Coetzee, quote from Waiting for the Barbarians
“They didn't hear her , but it was enough that GOD did”
― Elif Shafak, quote from Honor
“TV sounds are all the same; there's no difference between the sound of the wind in Northern Ireland and the wind on a Polynesian island.”
― Ryū Murakami, quote from Coin Locker Babies
“I would not be surprised if elephants are more intelligent than human beings. After all, their heads are larger than ours, and the fact that they do not speak might well be an indication of superiority.”
― Gore Vidal, quote from Creation
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