180 Quotes by Naguib Mahfouz

No blasphemy harms Islam and Muslims so much as the call for murdering a writer

He was not accustomed to busying himself with introspection or self-analysis. In this way he was like most people who are rarely alone. His mind did not swing into action until some external force required it: a man or woman or some other element of his material life. He had surrendered himself to the busy current of his life, submerging himself totally in it. All he saw of himself was his reflection on the surface of the stream.

Călătoria pare să fie destul de lungă. Tânărul pare să se fi îmbarcat în trenul lui Auguste Compte, să fi trecut prin stația teologiei, a cărei deviză era: „Da! Crede și nu cerceta” pentru a poposi și a scormoni acum în tărâmurile metafizicii a cărei deviză este: „Nu!”, iar în depărtare se întrezărește realismul, pe al cărui frontispiciu stă scris: „Deschide ochii și întdrăznește!”.

Life…is a wonder. It is a sky laden with clouds of contradictions.

- قانون پیش از هنر مرده است، حقیقت این است که مفهوم هنر عوض شده ولی ما نمی دانیم، دوره هنر گذشت و به سر رسید، هنر عصر ما بذله گویی و مسخرگی است، در روزگار علم فقط همین یک هنر می تواند برجا بماند، و باید همه میدانها را بجز میدان سیرک برای علم خالی کنیم. - حقیقت این است که ما یکی پس از دیگری شکست می خوریم.

Writing is for men who can think and feel, not mindless sensation seekers out of nightclubs and bars. But these are bad times. We are condemned to work with upstarts, clowns who no doubt got their training in a circus and then turned to journalism as the appropriate place to display their tricks.

A crazy country, choking air, polluted hearts, treachery. Treachery and treason.

الإخوان يصطنعون عملية تزييف هائلة،فهم حيال المثقفين يقدمون الإسلام في ثوب عصري،وهم حيال البسطاء يتحدثون عن الجنة والنار،فينتشرون باسم الإشتراكية والوطنية والديموقراطية

April. Month of dust and lies.