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“بدلا من ان يسعى الباحثون العرب المسلمون لإعادة تحقيق ما حققه العلماء الغربيون عن تراثهم، تكرس جل اهتمامهم للرد على الاستشراق والمستشرقين بطريقة اتهامية رائجة في أوساط المثقفين العرب المحدثين”

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Book:أثر الاستشراق في الفكر العربي المعاصر عند إدوارد سعيد-حسن حنفي- عبد الله العروي
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“كانت ردة فعل المفكرين العرب على الاستشراق، رد فعل العملاني لا النظري بعد أن صيرته الأحوال إلى مظلة أيديولوجية لسياسة غربية أسندت نفسها على التعميمات المنمطقة عن الشرقيين”

PhilosophyThought
Book:أثر الاستشراق في الفكر العربي المعاصر عند إدوارد سعيد-حسن حنفي- عبد الله العروي
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“أن استئصال الإرهاب هو من استئصال مساوئ الذهنية الاستشراقية التي لم تستفق من استكبارها على من سيبقى استصغاره سبب لوجه من وجوه المراهقة السياسية.”

PhilosophyPolicyThought
Book:أثر الاستشراق في الفكر العربي المعاصر عند إدوارد سعيد-حسن حنفي- عبد الله العروي
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“المفارقة الأكثر غرابه هو اننا ما زلنا نتعلم تراثنا العربي الاسلامي الى الآن من مصادر غربية، اي كما حققه المستشرقون المتهمون بالانحياز ضد امتنا، من غير ان نوفر جهدا يذكر لتحقيق أصول معارفنا المتروكة في عهدة باحثي الغرب”

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Book:أثر الاستشراق في الفكر العربي المعاصر عند إدوارد سعيد-حسن حنفي- عبد الله العروي
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“Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than death.... Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.”

FearThoughtBertrand Russell
Book:Quotable Bertrand Russell
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“The part of thinking that’s easy to handle is the part that works by analogy with speech. Thinking in words, speaking our thoughts internally, projects an auditorium inside our skulls. Dark or bright, a shadow theater or a stage scorched by klieg lights, here we try out voices, including the voice we have settled on as the familiar sound of our identity, although it may not be what other people hear when we speak aloud. But that is the topmost of the linguistic processes going on in the mind. Beneath the auditorium runs a continuous river of thought that not only is soundless but is not ordered so it can be spoken. For obvious reasons, describing it is difficult. If I dip experimentally into the wordless flow, and then try to recall the sensations of it, I have the impression of a state in which grammar is present – for when I think like this I am certainly construing lucid relationships between different kinds of meaning, and making sense of the world by distinguishing between (for a start) objects and actions – but thought there are so to speak nounlike and verblike concentrations in the flow, I do not solidify them, I do not break them off into word-sized units. Are there pictures? Yes, but I am not watching a slide show, the images do not come in units either. Sometimes there’s a visual turbulence – rapid, tumbling, propelled – that doesn’t resolve into anything like the outlines of separate images. Sometimes one image, like a key, will hold steady while a whole train of wordless thoughts flows from its start to its finish. A mountain. A closed box. A rusty hinge.”

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Book:The Child That Books Built: A Life in Reading
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“We are asking if thought can be aware of itself. That is rather a complex question, and requires very careful observation. Thought has created wars through nationalism, through sectarian religions. Thought has created all this; God has not created the hierarchy of the church--the pope, all the robes, all the rituals, the swinging of the incense, the candles. All that paraphernalia that goes on in a cathedral or in a church is put together by thought, copied, some of it, from the ancient Egyptians, from the ancient Hindus, and Hebrews. It is all thought. So "God" is created by thought.”

WarGodThoughtNationalism
Book:The Krishnamurti Reader
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