EB Christen

“The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.”
― Avicenna, Psikologi Ibn Sina

“In the case of the Levant, it is mere question-begging rhetoric to insist that similarities are more fundamental or essential than differences. For who is to say, where human groups and their interestsare in question, what is fundamental and what is secondary, what is essential and what is accidental? And even if the answers were clear, they could not by themselves determine a political decision. Political decisions are not scientific conclusions; they are rather the promptings of the practical judgment, in which play their part inclination and duty, circumstance and foresight.”
― Elie Kedourie, The Chatham House Version: And Other Middle Eastern Studies

“Is it gone for ever? I’m not certain. But I tell you it was a good world to live in. I belong to it. So do you.”
― George Orwell, Coming Up for Air

“Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people—does not even pretend to try. Instead, he tries to divide us,” Mattis wrote, also in The Atlantic.”
― Carol Leonnig, I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year