Quotes by : Amin Maalouf

Doctrines are meant to serve man, not the other way around.

Can we reconcile indefinitely these two imperatives: the desire to preserve every individual's special....

You can't say history teaches us this or that; it gives us more questions than answers, and many answers....

It's the relationship I have with the world: always trying to escape from reality. I'm a daydreamer I....

By living exclusively for the present, we let ourselves be hemmed in by an ocean of death. Conversely,....

You could read a dozen large tomes on the history of Islam from its very beginnings and you still wouldn't....

Every individual is a meeting ground for many different allegiances, and sometimes these loyalties conflict....

...it's better to wake up amid the pangs of desire than amid those of remorse.

I have the profoundest respect for people who behave in a generous way because of religion. But I come....

The past is bound to be fragmentary, bound to be reconstructed, bound to be reinvented. It serves only....