Today I meet with Dr. Syamsuddin Arif. He said Prof. al-Attas says, "I don't read much but I think a lot

To know how to put what knowledge in which place is wisdom (hikmah). Otherwise, knowledge without order and seeking it without discipline does lead to confusion and hence to injustice to one's self.

Justice and injustice indeed begins and ends with the self.

Man is like an island set in isolation in a fathomless sea enveloped by darkness, saying that the loneliness his self knows is so utterly absolute because even he knows not his self completely.

The godly shall pray to God.

When quarrels and complaints arise, it is when people who are equal have not got equal shares, or vice-versa.

I have an office in Argentina, I go there every day, so I work.

There will be hunters and hunted, winners and losers. What counts in global competition is the right strategy and success.

But at the beginning it was clear to me that concrete poetry was peculiarly suited for using in public settings. This was my idea, but of course I never really much got the chance to do it.

There's this idea that somebody's job could be more important than somebody else's, and to me, that's not true.

For the majority of us, the past is a regret, the future an experiment

It became a habit of mine never to leave the house without a pencil in my pocket.

Whatever you think, that you will be. If you think yourselves weak, weak you will be; if you think yourselves strong, strong you will be.

Hometown is like my quilts. Sometimes when you are in sweet dreams, you don't feel it's comfortable.