“Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.”

I have found little ‘good’ about human beings. In my experience, most of them are trash.

The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.

Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.

Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.

Without love we fall ill.

A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.

How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved.

Public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self.

There are no mistakes.

If youth knew; if age could.

A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.

Where the questions of religion are concerned people are guilty of every possible kind of insincerity and intellectual misdemeanor.

The dream is the liberation of the spirit from the pressure of external nature, a detachment of the soul from the fetters of matter.

If you want your wife to listen to you, then talk to another woman; she will be all ears.

The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation.

Words have no language which can utter the secrets of love; and beyond the limits of expression is the expounding of desire.

Form no covetous desire, so that the demon of greediness may not deceive thee, and the treasure of the world may not be tasteless to thee.

Ah Love! could you and I with him conspire To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire Would we not shatter it to bits-and then Re-mould it nearer to the Heart’s Desire?

How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?

There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything that he desires is outside; and there is another kind where the things are behind the bars, and the man is outside.

There is no group or type of people anywhere in the world that is excluded from salvation, because God desires that the gospel be proclaimed to all without exception.

If, like the prophet Noah, you have patience in the distress of the flood, Calamity turns aside, and the desire of a thousand years comes forth.

The one who is [truly] imprisoned is the one whose heart is imprisoned from Allah and the captivated one is the one whose desires have enslaved him.