If a man begin with certainties, he shall end in doubt, but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religions in it.

I am the son of two civilizations that at a certain age in history have formed a happy marriage. The first of these, seven thousand years old, is the Pharaonic civilization; the second, one thousand four hundred years old, is the Islamic one.

In this decisive moment in the history of civilization it is inconceivable and unacceptable that the moans of Mankind should die out in the void.

"There was brotherhood between people who had fed from the same breast, a kinship that even time could not break."

"War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace."

Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.

Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.

Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western world. The simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straightjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.

I am no great believer in justice, but I think there is a moral balance in all human events; if only we look down deeply enough, we can spot the beginning of the misfortunes that eventually overtake us in just such a small suppression of the truth, in just such a tiny corruption.