Sabzian Quotes & Sayings

My memories from my childhood are centered on my father's medical conditions alongside my constant desire to understand the principles of the nature around me. — Ada Yonath

Even those who have desired to work out a completely positive philosophy have been philosophers only to the extent that, at the same time, they have refused the right to install themselves in absolute knowledge. They taught not this knowledge, but its becoming in us, not the absolute but, at most, our absolute relation to it, as Kierkegaard said. What makes a philosopher is the movement which leads back without ceasing from knowledge to ignorance, from ignorance to knowledge, and a kind of rest in this movement. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

It was really bizarre, that Sabzian business. You know I had no interest in being photographed before this incident. But then not just Sabzian - many other people started pretending they were me! One of them actually got married while pretending he was me! My face became publicly recognizable soon after I decided to have a few photographs of me available in public to prevent these sorts of identity thefts. It is really pathetic, if you think of it. Filmmakers and filmmaking is so popular in Iran because all other forms of expression have been denied to people. — Mohsen Makhmalbaf

In the fury of the moment/ I can see the Master's hand
In every leaf that trembles, in/ every grain of sand. — Bob Dylan

The text is not inserted into a genetic process in which it is understood as emerging from this or that prior moment of form or style; nor is it 'extrinsically' related to some ground or context which is at least initially given as something lying beyond it. Rather, the data of the work are interrogated in terms of their formal and logical and, most particularly, their semantic conditions of possibility. — Fredric Jameson

The complete encounter with the Lord will mark an end to history, but it will take place in history. — Gustavo Gutierrez

I feel Scottish when with English people, and when I'm with Scottish people, I realise I'm English. — Nina Conti

I took part in what was actually the last eruption of Marxist internationalism. — Christopher Hitchens

Case by case, we find that conformity is the easy way, and the path to privilege and prestige; dissidence carries personal costs that may be severe, even in a society that lacks such means of control as death
squads, psychiatric prisons, or extermination camps. The very structure of the media is designed to induce conformity to established doctrine. In a three-minute stretch between commercials, or in seven hundred words, it is impossible to present unfamiliar thoughts or surprising conclusions with the argument and evidence required to afford them some credibility. Regurgitation of welcome pieties faces no such problem. — Noam Chomsky

Humility bids us to take ourselves as we are; we do not have to be cosmically significant to be genuinely significant. — Patricia Churchland

All this ferment was public, we might almost say tranquil.
The imminent insurrection gathered its storm calmly in the face of the government. No singularity was lacking in this crisis, still subterranean, but already perceptible. The middle class talked quietly with workingmen about the preparations. They would say, "How is the uprising coming along?" in the same tone in which they would have said, " How's your wife? — Victor Hugo

Affirmation: I am one, but I'm not alone. God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit is complete within me. — Katina Marshell Cotton-Sliwa

Treat [the people] as slaves, guard them against brigands, and they will come to regard themselves as slaves and brigands. — Liang Qichao

What is the difference between Jew and Christians? We all await the Messiah. You believe He has already come and gone, while we do not. I therefore propose that we await Him together. And when He appears, we can ask Him: were You here before? — Elie Wiesel