Quotes About Kassam

#1. The path towards peace is not for the righteous, the ethical, the active and the compassionate to shit on the malicious, the complacent, the violent and the ignorant. The path towards peace is to be peaceful.

Ilyas Kassam

#2. The only kind of universe that I can even begin to conceive is an inconceivable one.

Ilyas Kassam

#3. Freedom is not to defy, it is to co-exist. It is a challenge for the imagination

Ilyas Kassam

#4. It is more Important to be of pure intention than of perfect action.

Ilyas Kassam

#5. What if we didn't all grow up hearing that true love is obsessive and possessive? What if, like the Mosuo, we revered the dignity and autonomy of those we loved? What if, in other words, sex, love, and economic security were as available to us as they were to our ancestors?

Christopher Ryan

#6. Your inability to see the wisdom in someone else is not a reflection on their lack of perspicacity, it is a reflection on yours.

Ilyas Kassam

#7. Our great adventure ran out of petrol and stopped on this farm.

Steven Herrick

#8. We are finite, in that we are a product and source of the infinite.

Ilyas Kassam

#9. Desire urges me on, while fear bridals me.

Giordano Bruno

#10. Be Kind. It is all that matters. Be kind through your own definition of kindness. Philosophy is merely a manner of defining kindness, it is not kindness itself. Kindness resides within you, outside of you and about you.

Ilyas Kassam

#11. Logic in all its infinite potential, is the most dangerous of vices. For one can always find some form of logic to justify his action, and rest comfortably in the assurance, that what he did abides by reason. That is why, for us brittle beings, Intention is the only true weapon of peace.

Ilyas Kassam

#12. Poetry is the way that we transcend language through language. And thus our freedom lies in the poetry of all things

Ilyas Kassam

#13. To neglect ones own ability to laugh is the greatest form of Blasphemy, for to laugh is to pray.

Ilyas Kassam

#14. The Purpose of Philosophy is to fall in Love. To strip the world of all its clothes, and fall in Love with it as it stand before you completely naked.

Ilyas Kassam

#15. To be an architect is to possess an individual voice speaking a generally understood language of form.

Robert A. M. Stern

#16. I work under three umbrellas: entertainment, education, and entrepreneurship. Of course the entertainment fragment speaks for itself because I'm in Chicago. However, a lot of folks may not know I teach courses at Ohio State University that covers life in professional sports.

Eddie George

#17. An intelligent man is one who acknowledges his intelligence as that of those who surround him.

Ilyas Kassam

#18. To want to tackle everything rationally is irrational.

Ilyas Kassam

#19. To know yourself you must know the transience of your self.

Ilyas Kassam

#20. There is desire in the perfect, beauty in the imperfect.
Thus I lust over the flawless,
and fall amorously forceless to the flawed.

Ilyas Kassam

#21. The context needs to be that the goal is a healthy mom. Because mothers never make decisions without thinking about that healthy baby. And to suggest otherwise is insulting and degrading and disrespectful.

Jennifer Block

#22. If nature has taught us anything it is that the impossible is probable

Ilyas Kassam

#23. If you cannot find an element of Humour in something, your not taking it seriously enough.

Ilyas Kassam

#24. If you alone found out what the lie was, then you're probably right - it would make no great difference. But if you ALL found out what the lie was, it might conceivably make a very great difference indeed.

Daniel Quinn

#25. An over examination of life can deter you from life itself

Ilyas Kassam

#26. I'm totally deaf in my right ear, yeah.

Michael Leunig

#27. Some actors - myself included - like to know where your character's going: you like to know what the arc is for the character so that you can plan where you're going to give beats for this, that, and the other and give the audience what they want. But on 'Homeland,' you do the opposite.

Raza Jaffrey

#28. There's an old saying, Zill. Freedom can't be given, only earned.

Brian K. Vaughan

#29. A truly free man is not free 'from' anything, nor free 'to' anything, he is just free. Free within himself.

Ilyas Kassam

#30. I think to think. Not to be thought-full, or to reach a point of wisdom or acquire a grace of knowledge. I think for the sensuality of thought.

Ilyas Kassam

#31. We think to dance, and dance in thought. But to hibernate in the mind, is to bring upon us an apocalypse of the Soul.

Ilyas Kassam

#32. To seek contentment is to release the novelty that lies within monotony

Ilyas Kassam

#33. You do not have to force yourself to do anything at all. There is a continual exchange, a continual dance. It is similar to the sun shining and plants growing. The sun has no desire to create the vegetation; plants simply react to sunlight and the situation develops naturally.

Chogyam Trungpa

#34. UFOs Are Real. The Air Force Doesn't Exist.

Eileen Wilks

#35. Humanity must forgive 'Humanity', for only then can we be Humane.

Ilyas Kassam

#36. In show business the key word is honesty. Once you've learned to fake that, the rest is easy.

George Burns