- When we lack an element to judge something, and the lack is unbearable, all we can do is decide. To overcome doubt, sometimes we have to decide one way over the other. Since you need to believe one thing but have two choices, you must choose.
- So you have to invent your belief?
- Yeah, well.. in a sense.
عَرفْتُ اللّه سُبحانَهُ بفَسْخِ العَزائمِ، و حَلِّ العُقودِ، و نَقْضِ الهِمَمِ
من خداوند سبحان را به درهم شکستن عزم‌ها و فرو ریختن تصمیم‌ها و برهم خوردن اراده‌ها و خواست‌ها شناختم.
امام علی (ع)
در این که درد، غم، از دست دادن، شکست، ناامیدی، ضعف و کاستی‌های بشر، ایمانش را به خداوند سبحان - آن کمال مطلق و قادر متعادل - بیشتر می‌کند، نشانه‌هایی است برای آنان که می‌اندیشند.
John Brennan: So, the life in times of Don Quixote, what is it about?
College Student: That someone's belief in virtue is more important than virtue itself?
John Brennan: Yes... that's in there. But what is it about? Could it be how rational thought destroys your soul? Could it be about the triumph of irrationality and the power that is in that? You know, we spend a lot of time trying to organize the world. We build clocks and calendars and we try to predict the weather. But what part of our life is truly under our control? What if we choose to exist purely in a reality of our own making? Does that render us insane? And if it does, isn't that better than a life of despair?
-The Next Three Days
