Mardin Uzeri

“Aronson's first law:

People who do crazy things are not necessarily crazy.”
― Elliot Aronson, The Social Animal

“...most people in the ancient world, did not make a sharp distinction between myth and reality. The two were intimately tied together in their spiritual experience. That is to say, they were less interested in what actually happened, than in what it meant. It would have been perfectly normal, indeed expected, for a writer in the ancient world, to tell tales of gods and heroes, whose fundamental facts would have been recognized as false, but whose underlying message would have been seen as true.”
― Reza Aslan, Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“Muḥammad is a man, but not like other men. Rather, he is a ruby and other men are like stones.”
― Seyyed Hossein Nasr, The Heart of Islam: Enduring Values for Humanity