82 Quotes by Alija Izetbegović

الحضارة تُعلِّم أما الثقافة فتُنور. تحتاج الأولي الى تعلم, اما الثانية فتحتاج الى تأمل

Only God was able to create a free creature, and freedom could only arise by the act of creation.

Man can choose to go against the moral laws, but he cannot, as a monster, stay out of the moral sphere, beyond good and evil.

Adam (man) could not rid himself of his freedom, nor escape from the drama, to be as innocent as an animal or an angel. He has to choose, to use his freedom, to be good and evil; in one word, to be man. This ability to choose, regardless of result, is the highest form of existence possible in the universe.

Art is possible only if man is different from nature, if man is a stranger in it--that is, if he is a personality. All art is a continuous story of man's foreignness in nature.

Raphael created his paintings not with his hands but with his spirit. Beethoven wrote his best compositions when he was already deaf.

Pretjerano čitanje ne čini nas pametnijim. Neki ljudi jednostavno 'gutaju' knjige. Oni to čine bez onih neophodnih intervala razmišljanja, koji su potrebni da se pročitano 'svari', preradi, usvoji, razumije. Kod čitanja lični doprinos je potreban kao što je pčeli potreban 'unutrašnji' rad, pa i vrijeme, da sakupljeni cvijetni prah pretvori u med.

There is an order to an engine and an order to a melody. These two orders cannot, even in the final analysis, be reduced to a common source... The existence of another world (another order) in addition to the natural one is the basic premise of every religion and art.

ففي الحضانة أطفال بلا آباء، وفي دور المسنين آباء بلا أطفال، وكلاهما المنتج “الرائع” للحضارة والمثل الاعلى في كل طوبيا