“An individual chooses and makes himself.”

“The individual's duty is to do what he wants to do, to think whatever he likes, to be accountable to no one but himself, to challenge every idea and every person.”

“Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.”

“I have no religion, but if I were to choose one, it would be that of Shariati's.”

“Man is what he wills himself to be.”

“Life has no meaning a priori… It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.”

“What do we mean by saying that existence precedes essence? We mean that man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world-and defines himself afterward.”