“If a group of people feels that it has been humiliated and that its honour has been trampled underfoot, it will want to express its identity and this expression of an identity will take different shapes and forms.”

We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality.

In many of the things that people do, they themselves are the centre of attention, but they inscribe some other name on their banner.

As a result of the awareness and consciousness of decline, an awareness and consciousness of a national ethnicity or an Islamic identity also came into being.

Energy is a concept that has been coined by physicists. There is no observable thing known as energy anywhere.

We must break problems down into small, digestible bits. We must define the concepts that we use and explain what components they consist of. We must tackle small problems.

Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.

Compromise has a negative connotation.

In order for answers to become clear, the questions have to be clear.

People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.

Life itself is but the expression of a sum of phenomena, each of which follows the ordinary physical and chemical laws.

If I had to define life in a single phrase, I should clearly express my thought of throwing into relief one characteristic which, in my opinion, sharply differentiates biological science. I should say: life is creation.

For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art.

I live in the facial expressions of the other, as I feel him living in mine.

Revolutionaries must proclaim their ideas courageously … and express their intentions so that no one is deceived.

The same inexpressible Truth is experienced in two ways: as Self-luminous Silence, or as the Eternal Play of the One.

Humor and pathos, tears and laughter are, in the highest expression of human character and achievement, inseparable.

Remembrance is a necessary expression of love, internally.