Arendt

"I don't belong to any group. You know the only group I ever belonged to were the Zionists. This was only because of Hitler, of course. And this was from '33 to '43. And after that I broke. The only possibility to fight back as a Jew and not as a human being -- which I thought was a great mistake, because if you are attacked as a Jew, you have got to fight back as a Jew, you cannot say, "Excuse me, I am not a Jew; I am a human being." This is silly. And I was surrounded by this kind of silliness. There was no other possibility, so I went into Jewish politics -- not really politics -- I went into social work and was somehow also connected with politics.": #Arendt

 "I don't know. I really don't know and I've never known. And I suppose I never had any such position. You know the left think that I am conservative, and the conservatives sometimes think I am left or I am a maverick or God knows what. And I must say I couldn't care less. I don't think that the real questions of this century will get any kind of illumination by this kind of thing." #Arendt

Seperti Hossein

"Those who die perform a Hossein-like act and those who live should do as Zeinab did or else they would be akin to Yazid." (Ali Shariati)

Man va Tau

من تو شدم، تو من شدی، من تن شدم، تو جان شدی، تا کس نگوید بعد از این من دیگرم تو دیگری - مولوی

Kuasa

Power, unless justified, is inherently illegitimate. The burden of proof is on those in authority to demonstrate why their elevated position is justified. If this burden can't be met, the authority in question should be dismantled. Authority for its own sake is inherently unjustified. (Noam Chomsky)

Bunuh-Diri

It's beyond me to make a comment (on suicide), apart from hoping that your friend will reconsider, and realize that with all of life's travails, we have only one life, and there is a lot that it can offer. Things change. (An Email by Noam Chomsky, September 30, 2011)

Corbin dan Agama

"Corbin and I also had a lot of personal human contacts and common interest in various spiritual and intellectual matters, and I knew him very well on the human level. For example, we went together for ziyarat of Jam-i karan, the site associated with the Twelfth Imam near the holy city of Qom. He considered himself a ‘‘Shi‘ite,’’ although I think that he never formally converted to Shi‘ism. But he was inwardly converted to it. He always used to say, ‘‘nous Shi‘ites’’ that is, ‘‘we Shi‘ites.’’ We also spoke about intimate, spiritual subjects together, about inner visions and matters like that, which I do not want to discuss here." ~Seyyed Hossein Nasr, In Search of the Sacred

Agama, atau Teologi

Religion is what one has. Theology is what one thinks about it. Reflecting on what one has -or thinks one has- is philosophy. Thus principled systematic thinking about religion is philosophy of religion. If you ask me: there is no need for theology. ~ H. Schnädelbach, “Was ist Neoaristotelismus?"

Adorno (1)

"Religion is on sale, as it were. It is cheaply marketed in order to provide one more so-called irrational stimulus among many others by which the members of a calculating society are calculatingly made to forget the calculation under which they suffer." — Theodor Adorno, Theses upon Art and Religion Today, 1945

Marcuse (1)

For Marx, as for Hegel, the dialectic takes note of the fact that the negation inherent in reality is ‘the moving and creative principle’. The dialectic is the ‘dialectic of negativity’. Every fact is more than a mere fact; it is a negation and restriction of real possibilities. Wage labor is a fact, but at the same time it is a restraint on free work that might satisfy human needs. Private property is a fact, but at the same time it is a negation of man’s collective appropriation of nature. - Herbert Marcuse, Reason and Revolution, p 282.

Horkheimer (2)

Anyone who does not wish to talk about capitalism, however, should also keep quiet on the subject of fascism. - Max Horkheimer, Die Juden und Europa (The Jews in Europe), ZfS Vol. 8, No. 1/2 (1939), p. 115

Horkheimer (1)

A 'rational society' can only emerge in 'the struggle for the future', and "the struggle against 'the world of capital' (early Horkheimer) and 'the domination of technical rationality in all its forms' (later Horkheimer). - David Held, Introduction to Critical Theory: Horkheimer to Habermas, p. 196

Pada Mulanya Adalah Kesabaran

خداوندا به من آرامشی عطا کن که بپذیرم آنچه نمی‌توانم تغییر دهم و جراتی که تغییر دهم آنچه را که می‌توانم و علمی که تفاوت این دو را دریابم — علی شریعتي

انسان و اسلام / ۳۴

خدا یک مفهوم مشترک در ذهن همه است. یک عده با آن مخالفیم و یک عده آن معتقد. - علی شریعتی، انسان و اسلام / ۳۴

اسلام شناسی / ۷۲

ای خدای بزرگ! تو چه باشی و چه نباش، من اکنون سخت به تو نیازمندم. تنها به این نیازمندم که تو باشی - علی شریعتی، اسلام شناسی، ۷۲

Melampaui Atheisme

"Christianity, and nothing else [is] the ultimate foundation of liberty, conscience, human rights, and democracy, the benchmarks of western civilization. To this day we have no other options. We continue to nourish ourselves from this source. Everything else is postmodern chatter." (Habermas, Time of Transitions)

Estatika

Estatika, kebaikan saja takkan mampu menumpaskannya. Kesabaran, belum tahu.

Tradisi & Modeniti

"The tradition of modernity is the critique of tradition for the sake of tradition." (Eduardo Mendieta, Perspectives on Habermas, pg 128)

Yeki-bood; yeki-nabood

Yeki-bood; yeki-nabood -- Other than God, there was no One (Hooman Majd, The Ayatollah Begs to Differ, 2009)

Shari'ati - Soroush

"Jika sebelum revolusi, Shari'ati melaungkan suara emansipasi yang terdapat dalam Islam menerusi teologi pembebasan, sebaleknya setelah revolusi, Soroush pula melaungkan suara perubahan demokratik menerusi hermeneutis Islam." (Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi, Islam and Dissent in Post-revolutionary Iran, hal. 188)

Cendikiawan Awam

‎"A person who keeps to himself would not be considered a public intellectual, by definition. The rest also seems to me close to truism." ~ Noam Chomsky via Email