"I love Sufism as I love beautiful poetry, but it is not the answer. Sufism is like a mirage in the desert. It says to you, come and sit, relax and enjoy yourself for a while."
― Naguib Mahfouz
Topic(s):
Power
More From Naguib Mahfouz
- "I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening."
- "If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion."
- "We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were."
More In Power
- "What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking."― Voltaire
- "Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power."― Pierre Corneille
- "Power doesn’t corrupt people, people corrupt power."― William Gaddis