Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?

Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?

Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.

If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.

The spirit of philosophy is one of free inquiry. It suspects all authority. Its function is to trace the uncritical assumptions of human thought to their hiding places, and in this pursuit it may finally end in denial or a frank admission of the incapacity of pure reason to reach the ultimate reality.

The truth is that the religious and the scientific processes, though involving different methods, are identical in their final aim. Both aim at reaching the most real.

Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile: Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.