“There is no glory in punishing.”

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.

Simplicity is the glory of expression.

Who then will dare to say I’m weak or timid? No, they’ll say I’m loyal as a friend, ruthless as a foe, so much like a hero destined for glory.

There is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.

Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.

Love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance.

He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake.

He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake.

We all have our moments of brilliance and glory.