Favorite Quotes

Shaykh Hamza Yusuf shared the teachings of Kierkegaard in his own words

“There’s no reason for nine months of gestation and then several years of nurturing a human being if they’re going to basically have the existence of a slug that seeks pleasure and avoids pain. It would be better to produce human beings like larvae that are just hatched out of filth. If so much energy goes into the production and nurturing of a human being, there must be something more here to a human being than simply the hedonistic pursuit of pleasure. And this is where he argues that it is the ethical life.”

“Vice is a monster of so frightful mien

As to be hated needs but to be seen;

Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face,

We first endure, then pity, then embrace.”

~ Alexander Pope