Quotes About Philosophy

Monotheism is in its turn doomed to subtract one more god and become atheism.

it is easier to legislate a rule than to develop a value.

One day we will all wear a garment which has no pockets...

What can you do with a person who says that he is absolutely uncertain about everything, and that he is absolutely certain about that?

The Sufi is 'One who does not care when something is taken from him, but who does not cease to seek for what he has not.

Not to be greedy is, paradoxically, the highest form of looking after one's true interests.

Anyone can see that an ass laden with books remains a donkey. A human being laden with the undigested results of a tussle with thoughts and books, however, still passes for wise.

Abu-Yaqub al-Susi: the Sufi is 'One who does not care when something is taken from him, but who does not cease to seek for what he has not.

The existence of relative truth does not prove the non-existence of universal truth.

if... says: 'Do not be greedy, be generous', you may inwardly interpret this in such a manner that you will develop a greed for generosity

Sufis deny the absolute reality of time, space and physical form. These things are both relative and local. They only appear to be absolute.

Scholars of the East and West have heroically consecrated their whole working lives to making available, by means of their own disciplines, Sufi literary and philosophical material to the world at large. In many cases they have faithfully recorded the Sufis' own reiteration that the Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning.

Saying of the Mulla Nasrudin. If I survive this life without dying, I'll be surprised.

it was being written in the East that 'Sufism was formerly a reality without a name: now it is a name without a reality'.

As Ibn Arabi says: 'Absolute existence is the source of all existence'.

The Sufi must be able to alternate his thought between the relative and the Absolute, the approximate and the Real.

Eruditos de Oriente y Occidente consagraron heroicamente sus existencias profesionales a poner a disposición del público el material literario y filosófico sufi, utilizando para ello sus propias disciplinas. En muchos casos hicieron referencia a la insistencia de los propios sufis en que el camino de los sufis no puede ser comprendido valiéndose del intelecto o mediante el común aprendizaje a través de libros.

Dicho del Mulá Nasrudín. Si sobrevivo a esta vida sin morirme, me sorprenderé. Las sutilezas del incomparable

Nothing can defile the Sufi, and he in fact purifies everything." Abu-Turab al-Nakhsabi.

Sufism is always systematised only for limited or transitory periods: because Sufism is primarly instrumental, not for enjoyment or display.

El Sufismo es, en funcionamiento, pragmático.

The Sufis say, "This is not a religion; it is religion

Dicho del Mulá Nasrudín. Si sobrevivo a esta vida sin morirme, me sorprenderé.

Ser un Sufi es desligarse de ideas fijas y preconcebidas, y no intentar eludir el propio destino. Abu-Said, hijo de Abi-Khair