“God is not a dead equation!”

If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.

It is true that we are made of dust. And the world is also made of dust. But the dust has motes rising.

Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.

The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.

Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions.

Another way of judging the value of a prophet’s religious experience, therefore, would be to examine the type of manhood that he has created, and the cultural world that has sprung out of the spirit of his message.

Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.

The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.

Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement; and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth of other modes of knowledge.

I lead no party; I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature.

Become dust – and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone – and they will throw thee on glass.

Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.

Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world.

Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.

Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul’s contact with the body.

Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.

Many people have equated my tidying method with minimalism, but it’s quite different.

Life balance is a myth. It’s an illusion and the very pursuit of it is driving us crazy. For me it’s about proportion – it’s really a work hard/play hard equation.

And an equation is the same whether it’s written in red or green ink.

You can’t be afraid of getting old. Old is good, if you’re gathering in life. Our band is good at understanding that equation.

I am an emotional equation, continually miscalculation, escalation, you should be elated!

Life is and will ever remain an equation incapable of solution, but it contains certain known factors.

Today’s scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.

Life is and will ever remain an equation incapable of solution, but it contains certain known factors.