“You may have killed God beneath the weight of all that you have said; but don’t imagine that, with all that you are saying, you will make a man that will live longer than he.”

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.

It is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime.

Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.

Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.

Nature, keeping only useless secrets, had placed within reach and insight of human beings the things it was necessary for them to know.

People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do, but what they don’t know is what they do does.

Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.

Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.

Madness is the false punishment of a false solution, but by its own virtue, it brings to light the real problem, which can then be truly resolved.

Government is the right disposition of things.

The individual is the product of power.

Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.

This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.

From a Christian point of view, human reason is madness compared to the reason of God, but divine reason appears as madness to human reason.

What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?

You have to consider the possibility that God does not like you.

Then that little man in black there, he says women can’t have as much rights as men, ’cause Christ wasn’t a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him.

By predestination we mean the eternal decree of God, by which He determined with Himself whatever He wished to happen with regard to every man

Nothing separates a woman or a family from God’s love. Not death, and certainly not divorce.

Too vast is Man and too imponderable his nature. Too varied are his talents, and too inexhaustible his strength. Beware of those who attempt to set him boundaries.Live as if your God Himself had need of you His life to live. And so, in truth, He does.

All flows out from the Deity, and all must be absorbed in Him again.

What can you do with me? My jannah is in my heart! If you take me to jail, I will make zikr of Allah. If you exile me out of my land, I will make takaffur. If you execute me, I would be a shaheed. What can you do with me? Because I am not limited to this dunya. I am living for al-akhira!

Adversity makes men remember God.