Al-Shafi‘i Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I really like to kid around, and it's my own way of concentrating. In order for me to be able to feel better and concentrate, I need everybody else around me to be relaxed.
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I love Latino culture but I hate the concept of "la raza." It is a divisive mindset.
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Man, who don't like spaghetti?
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To love someone is to identify with them.
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Imperialism, in a sense, is the transition stage from capitalism to Socialism. . . . It is capitalism dying, not dead.
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Mechanical wings allow us to fly, but it is with our minds that we make the sky ours
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Nothing is real beyond imaginative patterns men make of reality.
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Hence it happened that all the armed prophets conquered, all the unarmed perished. [It., Di qui nacque che tutti li profeti armati vincero, e li disarmati rovinarono.]
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You want to know a sure way to lose money? Buy what's popular and don't know what you are investing in.
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In the beginning, when I first found out I had a disease that was incurable, emotionally I had to get used to the idea of being sick before I could think about making any other major decisions in my life.
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Then they did put me on the rack because I confessed no ladies or gentlemen to be of my opinion, and thereon they kept me a long time and because I lay still and did not cry, my Lord Chancellor and Master Rich took pains to rack me with their own hands till I was nigh dead.
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Wealth remains behind on earth while ibadaah accompanies you into the grave.