The past requires not only that we study it and know it, but also that we learn its lessons - for this simple reason: evil is not just a thing of the… - Tzvetan Todorov

Further, Columbus believes not only in Christian dogma, but also (and he is not alone at the time) in Cyclopes and mermaids, in Amazons and men with tails, and his belief, as strong as Saint Peter’s, therefore permits him to find them.

إن معرفة الأدب ليست غاية لذاتها ،وإنما هي إحدى السبل الأكيدة التي تقود إلى إكتمال كل إنسان

The thirst for vengeance did not wait for Islam to appear in the world, and the appeal to the law of an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth is universal.