Top 40 Nasr Quotes
#1. Nasr combines in his writing audacious intellectual criticism, deep understanding of Islam ... and a commitment to the Western-European contributions to the emancipation of the human condition.
Mohammed Arkoun
#2. Don't ever have two dogs. That way you won't know which one to blame.
Bob Newhart
#3. My dad was a fairy," said Zach. "And by that I don't mean he dressed well and enjoyed musical theatre.
Ben Aaronovitch
#4. I pity those who can find no good at church. But how should they if prejudice come between, an effectual bar to the grace of God?
John Wesley
#5. 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.
Seyyed Hossein Nasr
#6. 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.
Seyyed Hossein Nasr
#7. 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.
Seyyed Hossein Nasr
#8. Beauty is at once a royal path to God and an impediment to reaching God if it is taken as a god in itself.
Seyyed Hossein Nasr
#9. 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.
Seyyed Hossein Nasr
#10. The force I represent is Virginia's New Mainstream. It looks forward, not backwards. It tries to unify people, not divide them.
Douglas Wilder
#12. 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.
Seyyed Hossein Nasr
#13. They did what human beings looking for freedom, throughout history, have often done. They left.
Isabel Wilkerson
#14. 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.
Seyyed Hossein Nasr
#16. 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?
Seyyed Hossein Nasr
#17. In traditional societies, nature was seen as one's wife, but the modern West turned it into a prostitute.
Seyyed Hossein Nasr
#18. wealthier than living a thousand years of fear, living one day with courage.
Nasr
#19. 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.
Seyyed Hossein Nasr
#20. Failure isn't an option. I've erased the word 'fear' from my vocabulary, and I think when you erase fear, you can't fail.
Alicia Keys
#21. 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.
Seyyed Hossein Nasr
#22. It is very easy to learn intolerance and unlearn tolerance, but difficult to unlearn intolerance,
Seyyed Hossein Nasr
#23. 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.
Seyyed Hossein Nasr
#24. Laws tend to be temporary over the long haul, Moneo. There is no such thing as rule-governed creativity.
Frank Herbert
#25. It was the earring. Laurent was always so austere. The earring reframed him. It gave the appearance of a sensual side, sophisticated and subtle.
C.S. Pacat
#26. Those who seek the kingdom of heaven find it, those who deserve it receive it, but those who don't are trapped in endless desires.
Nasr
#27. 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
Seyyed Hossein Nasr
#28. 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.
Seyyed Hossein Nasr
#29. What you have in Iraq is not just a society coming apart like Yugoslavia or Congo. What is at stake is not just Iraq's stability but the balance of power in the region.
Vali Nasr
#30. It struck me tonight how music mirrors life. Fleeting ephemeral moments, made up of beauty, sadness, joy, hope and despair. Melodies which are written in both major and minor keys. Flowing and fleeting. You can't hold onto it, or keep it from changing. Our emotions possess the evanescence of a note.
Virginia Burges
#31. My time in the Obama administration turned out to be a deeply disillusioning experience.
Vali Nasr
#32. The environmental crisis has deep spiritual, philosophical, and religious roots and causes. It is not merely the result of bad engineering.
Seyyed Hossein Nasr
#33. 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.
Seyyed Hossein Nasr
#34. There's a man in Mobile who remembers that Honus Wagner hit a triple in Pittsburgh 46 years ago. That's baseball.
Ernie Harwell
#35. Only two guards remained - a pair the professor had christened Misery and Despair because of the way their faces 'drooped with the weight of their ignorance'.
A.E. Nasr
#36. Two girls discover the secret of life
in a sudden line of poetry.
Denise Levertov
#37. Quarterbacks are always ready.
Jack Kemp
#38. The working men, I'll go by and they'll whistle. At first they whistle because they think, 'Oh, it's a girl. She's got blond hair and she's not out of shape,' and then they say, 'Gosh, it's Marilyn Monroe!'
Marilyn Monroe
#39. Robotics has been around forever, and it's been the next big thing forever, and it is so exciting and compelling that it's easy to get carried away. People almost always do, and that's one of the things that has held back the industry.
Colin Angle
#40. 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
Seyyed Hossein Nasr
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