{"author":"Ilyas Kassam","author_id":"Ilyas+Kassam","total_quotes":22,"quotes":[{"text":"We think to dance, and dance in thought. But to hibernate in the mind, is to bring upon us an apocalypse of the Soul.","author":"Ilyas Kassam","tags":["dance","mind","psychology","soul","thought"],"id":2721,"author_id":"Ilyas+Kassam"},{"text":"A truly free man is not free 'from' anything, nor free 'to' anything, he is just free. Free within himself.","author":"Ilyas Kassam","tags":["free-thought","freedom","man","oneness","self"],"id":14314,"author_id":"Ilyas+Kassam"},{"text":"Poetry is the way that we transcend language through language. And thus our freedom lies in the poetry of all things.","author":"Ilyas Kassam","tags":["freedom","meditation","philosophy","poetry","transcendance"],"id":16283,"author_id":"Ilyas+Kassam"},{"text":"There is desire in the perfect, beauty in the imperfect.Thus I lust over the flawless,and fall amorously forceless to the flawed.","author":"Ilyas Kassam","tags":["beauty","imperfect","kassam","love","perfection","philosophy"],"id":41329,"author_id":"Ilyas+Kassam"},{"text":"We are finite, in that we are a product and source of the infinite.","author":"Ilyas Kassam","tags":["finite","finitude","freedom","infinity","limits","philosophy","space"],"id":67449,"author_id":"Ilyas+Kassam"},{"text":"An intelligent man is one who acknowledges his intelligence as that of those who surround him.","author":"Ilyas Kassam","tags":["creation","intelligence","kassam","noetics","philosophy"],"id":70840,"author_id":"Ilyas+Kassam"},{"text":"An over examination of life can deter you from life itself.","author":"Ilyas Kassam","tags":["examined-life","life","philosophy","plato"],"id":74367,"author_id":"Ilyas+Kassam"},{"text":"To neglect ones own ability to laugh is the greatest form of Blasphemy, for to laugh is to pray.","author":"Ilyas Kassam","tags":["comedy","divine-comedy","humour","laughter","pray","prayer"],"id":112251,"author_id":"Ilyas+Kassam"},{"text":"Logic in all its infinite potential, is the most dangerous of vices. For one can always find some form of logic to justify his action, and rest comfortably in the assurance, that what he did abides by reason. That is why, for us brittle beings, Intention is the only true weapon of peace.","author":"Ilyas Kassam","tags":["activistm","danger","emotion","intention","logic","philosophy","reason"],"id":138065,"author_id":"Ilyas+Kassam"},{"text":"Freedom is not to defy, it is to co-exist. It is a challenge for the imagination.","author":"Ilyas Kassam","tags":["existence","freedom","imagination"],"id":177013,"author_id":"Ilyas+Kassam"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":22,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}