Ilyas Quotes & Sayings

Freedom is not to defy, it is to co-exist. It is a challenge for the imagination — Ilyas Kassam

Don't give up.' Ilyas felt his eyes tear up.
'I'm not giving up. I'm taking precautions to protect the only person I really care about in this whole damn world. — Astrid Amara

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

We are finite, in that we are a product and source of the infinite. — Ilyas Kassam

A truly free man is not free 'from' anything, nor free 'to' anything, he is just free. Free within himself. — Ilyas Kassam

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

The world is in an eternal struggle against good and evil," he would say to me. "But the most important war is fought here." Ilyas would tap his chest. "It is not the barbarians, nor even the Druj, that we must fear the most, Nazafareen. It is the enemy within." I — Kat Ross

Elliot slid to the floor, panting. Ilyas pulled him close. They held each other for a moment. It was as pure a second of time as any Ilyas could recall, and he wished he could freeze it, trap it to savour forever. — Astrid Amara

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

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

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

To neglect ones own ability to laugh is the greatest form of Blasphemy, for to laugh is to pray. — Ilyas Kassam

If you cannot find an element of Humour in something, your not taking it seriously enough. — Ilyas Kassam

Humanity must forgive 'Humanity', for only then can we be Humane. — Ilyas Kassam

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

To want to tackle everything rationally is irrational. — Ilyas Kassam

To seek contentment is to release the novelty that lies within monotony — Ilyas Kassam

They had learned the language of each other's ardor, and yet each time Ilyas found himself marvelling at the newness of this
this coupling without restriction, this open, carnal honesty. — Astrid Amara

Elliot seemed out of place to Ilyas, so bright amongst the mud and dust that made up the camp. — Astrid Amara

An intelligent man is one who acknowledges his intelligence as that of those who surround him. — Ilyas Kassam

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

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

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

The only kind of universe that I can even begin to conceive is an inconceivable one. — Ilyas Kassam

If nature has taught us anything it is that the impossible is probable — Ilyas Kassam

To know yourself you must know the transience of your self. — Ilyas Kassam

An over examination of life can deter you from life itself — Ilyas Kassam

Elliot waved goodbye, and before he thought better, Ilyas waved in return.
Only once he got back into his own tent did he realise he'd been smiling the entire way back. — Astrid Amara

It is more Important to be of pure intention than of perfect action. — Ilyas Kassam