Ilyas Kassam Quotes

“It is more Important to be of pure intention than of perfect action.”

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

“Chicken and horse meat are the best foods for weightlifters, and good food is important.”

“There will be no beautiful widow with Persian eyes sitting at your grave. And teary-eyed kids won't be asking: "Papa, papa, can you hear us?”

“This (San Francisco) is the most beautiful city in America, Probably because it looks nothing like America”

“Clearly it's not all that pacific on the Pacific Ocean”

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

“To know yourself you must know the transience of your self.”

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

“I was right when I said a very long time ago that our age would leave few living documents behind it: it was rare for anyone to keep a diary, letters were short and businesslike--"I'm alive and well"--and few memoirs were written. There are many reasons for this. Let me mention just one, not perhaps recognized by everybody: we were too often at loggerheads with our own past to give it proper thought. Within the half-century, our ideas on people and events have changed many times; conversations were broken off in mid-sentence; thoughts and feelings could not but be affected by circumstances.”