The quotations of

Richard Francis Burton

British explorer, army officer, writer and scholar

1821–1890

8 quotes.

Reason is Life’s sole arbiter, the magic Laby’rinth’s single clue:
Worlds lie above, beyond its ken; what crosses it can ne’er be true.
The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)
- Thinking
All Faith is false, all Faith is true: Truth is the shattered mirror strown
In myriad bits; while each believes his little bit the whole to own.
The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)
- Faith
- Truth & Lies
Travellers like poets are mostly an angry race.
“Narrative of a Trip to Harar” (11 June 1855); published in The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society (June 1855)
- Anger
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night (1885) Terminal Essay: Social Conditions, fn. 13.
- Anti-Religion
- Religion
Cease, Man, to mourn, to weep, to wail; enjoy thy shining hour of sun;
We dance along Death’s icy brink, but is the dance less full of fun?
The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)
- Life & Death
How shall the Shown pretend to ken aught of the Showman or the Show?
The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)
- God
- Knowledge
Of the gladdest moments in human life, methinks is the departure upon a distant journey to unknown lands.
Journal Entry (2 December 1856)
- Happiness
Friends of my youth, a last adieu! haply some day we meet again;
Yet ne’er the self-same men shall meet; the years shall make us other men.
The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)
- Change
- Friendship

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