5 Khalil Gibran Quotes on Philosophy

Khalil Gibran quotes on philosophy

51. Life without Liberty is like a body without spirit. Liberty without thought is like a disturbed spirit ... Life, liberty, and thought - three persons in one substance, eternal, never-ending, and unceasing.

69. I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.

70. Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

73. If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.

80. For Kahlil Gibran no single religious tradition revealed the whole truth about life so he wove together insights from Eastern Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, American Transcendentalism, and the folklore of his native Lebanon to create his own universal 'Anthem of Humanity' ... he attacks narrow-mindedness, clerical hypocrisy and political injustice, and issues a declaration of faith in life itself.