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

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• To seek contentment is to release the novelty that lies within monotony.

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• A truly free man is not free from anything, nor free ‘to’ anything, he is just free. Free within himself.

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

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

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• 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.

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• We think to dance, and dance in thought. But to hibernate in the mind, is to bring upon us an apocalypse of the Soul.

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• To want to tackle everything rationally is irrational.

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• To know yourself you must know the transience of your self.

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• 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.

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• If nature has taught us anything it is that the impossible is probable.

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• We are finite, in that we are a product and source of the infinite.

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• An over examination of life can deter you from life itself.

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

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

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• Humanity must forgive ‘Humanity’, for only then can we be Humane.

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

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

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Ilyas Kassam (18)

Nationality:	British
Profession:	Writer

About

Ilyas Kassam was born in London, England. He is an English writer of Inclusional philosophy; An ecological and spiritual idea that examines the implications of Infinity. Most of his work stem from this body of thought but is not confined to it. In such light his book, Reminiscence of the Present includes a self critical collection of diary extracts that show his struggles to believe what he believes.

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