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

— Ilyas Kassam

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

— 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 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

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

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

— Ilyas Kassam

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

— Ilyas Kassam

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

— Ilyas Kassam

To want to tackle everything rationally is irrational.

— Ilyas Kassam

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

— Ilyas Kassam