Kahlil Gibran — a remark

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“Vain are the beliefs and teachings that make man miserable, and false is the goodness that leads him into sorrow and despair, for it is man's purpose to be happy on this earth.”

Happiness treated as a duty of faith, not a luxury · Spirits Rebellious, Khalil the Heretic, 1908

About Kahlil Gibran

Kahlil Gibran

6 January 1883–10 April 1931

Kahlil Gibran, born on 6 January 1883 in the mountain town of Bsharri, in what is now northern Lebanon, and dead on 10 April 1931 in New York City, became one of the most widely read literary figures of the twentieth century. He was a poet, prose writer, essayist, painter, draftsman, cultural critic, and immigrant…

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