73 Quotes by Al-Ghazali

He who buries his head deep into a nosebag full of food cannot hope to see the invisible world.

Do not allow your heart to take pleasure with the praises of people, nor be saddened by their condemnation.

Whoever passes forty without his virtue overpowering his vice, let him get ready for hellfire. This advice contains enough for people of knowledge.

Love for God is the farthest reach of all stations, the sun of the highest degrees, and there is no station after that of love, except its fruit and its consequences.

Knowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishness.

This visible world is a trace of that invisible one and the former follows the latter like a shadow.

No one who possesses snow would find any hardship in exchanging it for jewels and pearls. This world is like snow exposed to sun, which continues to melt until it disappears altogether, while the next life is like a precious stone that never passes away.

Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves.

You possess only whatever will not be lost in a ship wreck.