Hossein Nasr Quotes

#1. One wonders who knows more about the coyote, the zoologist who is able to study its external habit and dissect its cadaver or the Indian medicine man who identifies himself with the "spirit" of the coyote?

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#2. Beauty is at once a royal path to God and an impediment to reaching God if it is taken as a god in itself.

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#3. For anyone who understood the essence of modernism based on and originating in the secularizing and humanistic tendencies of the European Renaissance, it was easy to detect the confrontation that was already taking place between traditional and modern elements in the Islamic world.

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#4. To be modern is to destroy nature.

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#5. a line from Tolkien materializing in my head, one does not simply walk into Mordor. We

Ransom Riggs

#6. Trust one fool to see no flaws in another!

Darren Shan

#7. The positive and negative poles of a battery create an electrical flow. The masculine and feminine poles between people create a flow of sexual energy in motion.

David Deida

#8. The question, therefore, is not whether one should teach philosophy to Muslim students, but rather what kind or kinds of philosophy should be taught and how the subject should be approached.

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#9. Justice is inseparable from truth in human life.

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#10. But Henry was pretty irritating himself, with his steadfast way of remaining naive, as though life were just what a Sears catalogue told you it was: everyone standing around smiling.

Elizabeth Strout

#11. Voldemort come back' (again, there was a collective shudder around the table at the name)

J.K. Rowling

#12. In traditional societies, nature was seen as one's wife, but the modern West turned it into a prostitute.

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#13. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.

E. M. Forster

#14. Why is it when I pursue the praises of men I find myself with everything that I've looked for but nothing that I need? That's because I have an extraordinary habit of looking for the wrong thing in the wrong place.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#15. Now that Dad was crying, I was, like, both of us can't be sitting on rocks in Antarctica crying. It's going to be OK, Dad.

Maria Semple

#16. He broke through the barriers of the skies.

William Herschel

#17. And what ails you that you fight not in the way of God, and for the weak and oppressed - men, women, and children - who cry out, Our Lord! Bring us forth from this town whose people are oppressors, and appoint for us from Thee a protector, and appoint for us from Thee a helper.

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#18. In the traditional Islamic world, the hierarchy of the arts was not based on whether they were "fine" or "industrial" or "minor". It was based upon the effect of art on the soul of the human being.

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#19. The environmental crisis has deep spiritual, philosophical, and religious roots and causes. It is not merely the result of bad engineering.

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#20. For a long time I've wanted to apologize for my behavior that year, but I'm not sure how or even if it would be sincere. How does the man (woman) apologize for the boy (girl)? (132)

Michael Greenberg

#21. The aircraft found the ground before Teddy did and he watched as it exploded in a glittery starburst of light. He would live, he realized. There would be an afterward after all. He gave thanks to whichever god had stepped in to save him.

Kate Atkinson

#22. At all costs we should avoid considering our love of God to be superior to the love of the other for GodLet us love God and leave it for Him to decide on the intensity and sincerity of our loves, as well as of our differing views of Him

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#23. Somehow, I've been blessed to be able to have the young spirit inside - not feel like every year I get a year older. I feel like every year I get a year younger. I don't wake up in the morning with aches and pains.

Rickey Henderson

#24. Each decade absolutizes its own fashions of thought and action without the least pause and consideration of the fact that a decade later those very fashions and ideas will be buried in the dustbin of history as one turns to a new decade.

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#25. It is very easy to learn intolerance and unlearn tolerance, but difficult to unlearn intolerance,

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#26. The human soul, provided it is pure and strong enough, can contact the unseen in waking life as well as in dreams: all that is required is withdrawal of the soul from the tumult of sensory life.

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#27. The love of God is not only the highest form of love, but also in reality the only love of which all other loves are but shadows

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#28. Once A. K. Coomaraswamy, the great twentieth-century Indian expert on traditional metaphysics and art, said that in modern society the artist is a special kind of person, while in traditional society every person is a special kind of artist.

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#29. The quest for truth must be carried out by each person individually. It is like breathing, something which no one else can do for us.

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#30. Employees speak of being fearful opening emails and feeling increasingly helpless in the face of the deluge. Physiologically, we now know that the state of continuous disruption puts us into a constant state of hormone-induced stress.

Noreena Hertz

#31. A fact must be assimilated with, or discriminated fromm, some other fact or facts, in order to be raised to the dignity of a truth, and made to convey the least knowledge to the mind.

Henry Mayhew

#32. It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Francis Bacon

#33. The theory of evolution also had a very great effect in alienating science from religion and creating a world in which one could go about studying the wonders of creation without ever having a sense of wonder in the religious sense of that term.

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#34. The compartmentalization of knowledge, which is one of the characteristics of the mental and intellectual scene of the modern world, is not only reflected in modern education but is also caused by it.

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#35. Only man can stop being fully man. He can ascend above all degres of universal existence and by the same token fall below the level of the basest of creatures.

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