Lev Gumilev famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

We must surrender ourselves so utterly that we can never own ourselves again. We must hand over self and all its rights in an eternal covenant, and give God the absolute right to own us, control us and possess us forever.
Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.
Happiness is attained, not through self-interest, but through unconditional fidelity in endless love of eternal light.
Birth is a shadow. Courage, self-sustained, outlords succession's phlegm, and needs no ancestors.
When I make a photograph I want it to be an altogether new object, complete and self-contained, whose basic condition is order (unlike the world of events and actions whose permanent condition is change and disorder).
We swear by the Quran and Sunnah, and we will not compromise with any infidel....Islam is the truth and all else is falsehood.
We should be proud that our Prophet came into the world with the message of Islam to change it for the better, and not for the worse, or to keep things as they are.
We have not ceased to insist that an Islam of tolerance is advantageous to all Muslims, for the Afghans and the whole world and we will always defend it.
Right is the royal ruler alone; and he who rules with least restraint comes nearest to empire.
The achieved West had given the United States something that no people had ever had before, an internal, domestic empire.

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