Quotes by : Amin Maalouf

I no more believe in simplistic solutions than I do in simplistic identieties. The world is a complex....

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

let us thank God for having made us this gift of death, so that life is to have meaning; of night, that....

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

Never hesitate to go far away, beyond all seas, all frontiers, all countries, all beliefs.

The twentieth century will have taught us that no doctrine in itself is necessarily a liberating force:....

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

... we die, just as we were born, at the edge of a road not of our choosing.

Taking the line of least resistance, we lump the most different people together under the same heading.....

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