Alija Izetbegovic Quotes

Pretjerano čitanje ne čini nas pametnijim. Neki ljudi jednostavno 'gutaju' knjige. Oni to čine bez onih neophodnih intervala razmišljanja, koji su potrebni da se pročitano 'svari', preradi, usvoji, razumije. Kod čitanja lični doprinos je potreban kao što je pčeli potreban 'unutrašnji' rad, pa i vrijeme, da sakupljeni cvijetni prah pretvori u med.

When I lose the reasons to live, I shall die.

534. Life is a dangerous thing. Insecurity is the price of living. Only those who died and those who will never be born are absolutely safe.

326. Excessive reading does not make us smarter. Some people simply "devour" books. They do it without the necessary intervals of thought, which are necessary in order to "digest," to process what has been read, to absorb and comprehend it. When people of that kind speak, pieces of Hegel, Heidegger and Marx come out raw, unprocessed. Reading requires personal contribution as much as a bee requires "inner" work, as well as time, to transform pollen into honey.

500. There are paradoxes. If there were no night, we would be deprived of the magnificent image of a starry sky. Thus light deprives us of "vision," and darkness helps us "see.

Art is possible only if man is different from nature, if man is a stranger in it--that is, if he is a personality. All art is a continuous story of man's foreignness in nature.

Ve her şey bittiğinde hatırlayacağımız, düşmanlarımızın sözleri değil, dostlarımızın sessizliği olacaktır.

Raphael created his paintings not with his hands but with his spirit. Beethoven wrote his best compositions when he was already deaf.

366. Life is a game where nobody wins. .. except for those who believe and do good deeds. . . (Qur'an, Surah "Al Asr").

304. When you are in prison, you have but one desire: freedom. If you fall ill in prison, you do not think about freedom, you think about health. Health is, therefore, more important than freedom.

Newton, Darwin and Freud introduced determinism into everything they studied: the first into the universe, the second into the living world, and the third into the psyche. All three types of determinism were to be questioned later, and in the same sequence. It all started with Einstein's denial of Newton's universe.

509. A word uncovers the truth; it can also be used to conceal it.

Only God was able to create a free creature, and freedom could only arise by the act of creation.

The equality of men is a spiritual and not a natural, physical, or intellectual fact. It exists as a moral quality of man, as the human dignity, or as the equal value of the human personality.... If man's spiritual value is not recognized--this fact of religious character--the only real base of human equality is lost.

Huizinga noticed that contemporary man behaves childishly, in the negative sense of the word--that is, in a way which is equal to the mental level of puberty: banal amusements; the absence of authentic humor; the need for strong sensations; the inclination to mass parades and slogans; and the expression of an exaggerated hate or love, blame or praise, which have a mass and brutal aspect.

تتألم الروح مثل الجسد .. في بعض الأيام تظهر جميع الندوب على الروح ، وكل الأوجاع القاسية ، والتي هدأت مع مرور الوقت ، كما تظهر قبل الأيام العاصفة ، بعض الرضات القديمة ، أو يتوجع العظم من ضربة كانت قد حدثت أثناء الحياة الطويلة ، ونسيت ... في تلك الأيام تكون بمزاج سيء ، ومحاصراً بذاتك وروحك التي فتحت جروحها ، لكي تذكرك بأن لا شيء يضيع ولا شيء يختفي حتى أقل الآلام والذكريات البشعة .. إنها تخبو فقط ، وتنسحب إلى أعماق مجهولة ، كما سوف تنسحب هذه المرة ، وسترونها بأعينكم في المناسبة القادمة.

A word uncovers the truth; it can also be used to conceal it.

The true diferences between people, societies and political systems are not in aims, but in methods. Therefore, do not ask much about the aims, for proclaimed aims will always be noble and good-ask about the methods or observe the methods. That never deceives.

Two men are gambling on the sinking Titanic. One of them is cheating. Many people resemble these two in real life.

İslam orucu, hedefleri çeşitli olan ağır bir alıştırmadır. Bir çeşit ibadet olmakla beraber onun, mutlaka pedagojik, tıbbi ve sosyal önemi vardır. İslam toplumu onu hiç­ bir zaman, her bireyin şahsi meselesi olarak görmedi ve bu farzın yerine getirilmemesine sert tepki gösterirdi. Toplum oruç tutulmamasını orucun hizmet etmesi gere­ken iç kohezyonun (birbirine bağlı olma) ihlali olarak düşünmüştür. O aynı zamanda zekat (fakirlere verilen vergi) için psikolojik bir hazırlıktır çünkü aç olmanın ne demek olduğunu bilmeyen Müslüman yoktur. Halbuki birçok insan bu duygunun ne demek olduğunu kavramadan yaşar ve ölür.

Kanunların çokluğu ve hukuki sistemin karmaşıklığı genel olarak toplumda "bir şeyin çürük" olduğunun ve yeni kanun yapmak yerine insanları terbiye etme gereği­nin işaretidir. Toplumun bozulmuşluğu belli bir sınırı geçtiği vakit kanunlar yetersiz (güçsüz) kalırlar. Onlar ya çürük yargı erkinin eline geçer veya bozuk toplumun gizli veya açık aldatmacasının aleti olurlar.

يمكن أن يكون التعليم غير إنساني إذا كان عملية من جانب واحد ، موجهاً وقائماً على تلقين تعاليم حزبية ، إذا لم يكن يعلم الفرد كيف يفكر بطريقة إستقلالية ، إذا كان يقدم إجابات جاهزة ، إذا كان يُعد الناس فقط للوظائف المختلفة بدلاً من توسيع أفقهم ، وبالتالي حريتهم.

لكي نفهم العالم فهماً صحيحاً ، من المهم أن نعرف المصدر الحقيقي للأفكار التي تحكم هذا العالم وأن نفهم معانيها .

We're not fanatics and criminals like those from the 5th Corps. We all bow, go to mosque, and respect the Koran. We don't need an Islamic state under Alija Izetbegovic. Whether my sister will wear a veil is up to her to decide and not up to some stupid imam."8

Man was set "free, without the option to return", and so every Freudian solution is excluded. From that moment on, he could no longer be an animal or a man; he could only be man or non-man.

In one eon of eternity, a free being started to exist. Without a divine touch, the result of evolution would not have been man, but rather a more developed animal, a super-animal, a creature with a human body and intelligence but without a heart and personality.

Man can choose to go against the moral laws, but he cannot, as a monster, stay out of the moral sphere, beyond good and evil.

Adam (man) could not rid himself of his freedom, nor escape from the drama, to be as innocent as an animal or an angel. He has to choose, to use his freedom, to be good and evil; in one word, to be man. This ability to choose, regardless of result, is the highest form of existence possible in the universe.

In materialism, there is neither passion nor futility; there cannot be futility because there are no passions.

The philosophy of the absurd does not speak directly of religion, but it clearly expresses the belief that man and the world are not made by the same measure.

There is an order to an engine and an order to a melody. These two orders cannot, even in the final analysis, be reduced to a common source... The existence of another world (another order) in addition to the natural one is the basic premise of every religion and art.

With no pain and no suffering, what is lacking is the important thing we call credibility.