Only man can stop being fully man. He can ascend above all degres of universal existence and by the same token fall… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
If you want to make a decision in life on what to do, but if you're trying systematically, through spiritual practice, through… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
The life of Islamic philosophy did not terminate with Ibn Rushd nearly eight hundred years ago, as thought by Western scholarship for… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
Once you've fallen in love, it's turned around your whole life. You keep thinking about this girl all the time instead of… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
“Let me also again emphasize that it is only within Islam that Sufism can be practiced. The two have never been separated… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
The human soul, provided it is pure and strong enough, can contact the unseen in waking life as well as in dreams:… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
Islam, in contrast to Christianity and Buddhism, does not have monasticism; spiritual life, social life, they are all integrated and related together… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
“If evolutionism were to be rejected, the whole structure upon which the modern world is based would collapse and one would have… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
“We cannot gain an essential knowledge of man through any method that is based on externalization of man's inner being and the… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
Sufis have always been those that have tried to purify the ethics of Islam and society. And they don't have their hands… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
There is an idea that you can take the spiritual teachings of a religion outside of a religion and practice them; these ideas are… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share
“In the Islamic world itself also there is a great crisis in he modern established universities precisely because the systems from the West have… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share
Muhammad was the exemplar ruler, exemplar father, exemplar warrior, and once you have a family, you have contentions, you have problems, human problems, and… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share
Only man can stop being fully man. He can ascend above all degres of universal existence and by the same token fall below the… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share
Muhammad sets the model for being a good statesman. He also sets the model for being a good warrior, for chivalry, of nobility, of… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share
“For anyone who understood the essence of modernism based on and originating in the secularizing and humanistic tendencies of the European Renaissance, it was… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share
In fact, the machine doesn't have the consciousness we have, the free will that we have, and to surrender one's free will, not in… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share
In Islam, we believe that it is God himself who is the ultimate guide - Al Hadi - one of the names of God… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share
“Without the withering criticism by nominalism, medieval Christian philosophy and theology would not have relinquished their claim to the role of knowledge in discovering… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share
The Islamic world is suffering not only because of external oppression but also because of the loss of its own dignity, of its own… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share
The human soul, provided it is pure and strong enough, can contact the unseen in waking life as well as in dreams: all that… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share
Without Sufism, Islam would not have spread into two thirds of what we call the Islamic world. — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share
There is no religion in the world where there is a possibility of spiritual development outside of the context of that religion. This is… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share
