“I don’t write a book so that it will be the final word; I write a book so that other books are possible, not necessarily written by me.”

It’s amazing how people like judging.

The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.

From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort, and pleasure.

Islam, in the year 1978, was not the opium of the people precisely because it was the spirit of a world without spirit.

I’m not making a problem out of a personal question; I make of a personal question an absence of a problem.

Modern man is not the man who goes off to discover himself, his secrets, and his hidden truth; he is a man who tries to invest himself.

I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.

We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.

My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.

I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning.

Visibility is a trap.

The ‘Enlightenment, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.

It is meaningless to speak in the name of – or against – Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.

Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.

I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.

It would be wrong to say that the soul is an illusion or an ideological effect. On the contrary, it exists, it has a reality.

This time, there have been a lot of interesting discussions about the subject matter, and I’ve had a good time talking about it. And in some of the cases, I’m not just signing books – I’m showing slides and talking about the work

I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.

Take away the cross of Christ, and the Bible is a dark book.

I was quite a weird kid because I didn’t like getting presents. I don’t know why. I just went for books all the time.

Let us be very careful that we never exalt any minister, or sermon, or book, or friend above the Word of God.

Prayer needs neither learning, wisdom or book knowledge to begin it. It needs nothing but heart and will.

You really ought to read more books – you know, those things that look like blocks but come apart on one side.

I suppose books mean more than people to me anyway