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> [“We cannot gain an essential knowledge of man through any method that is based on externalization of man's inner being and the placing of this externalized man, of the man who stands at the rim of the wheel of existence,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seyyed-hossein-nasr/we-cannot-gain-an-essential-knowledge-of-man-through-any-method-that/)

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## More by Seyyed Hossein Nasr

> [There is an idea that you can take the spiritual teachings of a religion outside of a religion and practice them; these ideas are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seyyed-hossein-nasr/there-is-an-idea-that-you-can-take-the-spiritual-teachings-of-a/)

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> [“In the Islamic world itself also there is a great crisis in he modern established universities precisely because the systems from the West have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seyyed-hossein-nasr/in-the-islamic-world-itself-also-there-is-a-great-crisis-in-he-modern/)

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> [Muhammad was the exemplar ruler, exemplar father, exemplar warrior, and once you have a family, you have contentions, you have problems, human problems, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seyyed-hossein-nasr/muhammad-was-the-exemplar-ruler-exemplar-father-exemplar-warrior-and/)

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> [Only man can stop being fully man. He can ascend above all degres of universal existence and by the same token fall below the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seyyed-hossein-nasr/only-man-can-stop-being-fully-man-he-can-ascend-above-all-degres-of/)

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> [Muhammad sets the model for being a good statesman. He also sets the model for being a good warrior, for chivalry, of nobility, of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seyyed-hossein-nasr/muhammad-sets-the-model-for-being-a-good-statesman-he-also-sets-the/)

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> [“For anyone who understood the essence of modernism based on and originating in the secularizing and humanistic tendencies of the European Renaissance, it was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seyyed-hossein-nasr/for-anyone-who-understood-the-essence-of-modernism-based-on-and/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seyyed-hossein-nasr/in-fact-the-machine-doesn-t-have-the-consciousness-we-have-the-free/)

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> [In Islam, we believe that it is God himself who is the ultimate guide - Al Hadi - one of the names of God…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seyyed-hossein-nasr/in-islam-we-believe-that-it-is-god-himself-who-is-the-ultimate-guide/)

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> [All Muslims stand before God and they are their own priests.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seyyed-hossein-nasr/all-muslims-stand-before-god-and-they-are-their-own-priests/)

[Seyyed Hossein Nasr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seyyed-hossein-nasr/)

> [“Without the withering criticism by nominalism, medieval Christian philosophy and theology would not have relinquished their claim to the role of knowledge in discovering…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seyyed-hossein-nasr/without-the-withering-criticism-by-nominalism-medieval-christian/)

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> [The Islamic world is suffering not only because of external oppression but also because of the loss of its own dignity, of its own…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seyyed-hossein-nasr/the-islamic-world-is-suffering-not-only-because-of-external/)

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> [The human soul, provided it is pure and strong enough, can contact the unseen in waking life as well as in dreams: all that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seyyed-hossein-nasr/the-human-soul-provided-it-is-pure-and-strong-enough-can-contact-the/)

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> [Without Sufism, Islam would not have spread into two thirds of what we call the Islamic world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seyyed-hossein-nasr/without-sufism-islam-would-not-have-spread-into-two-thirds-of-what-we/)

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> [There is no religion in the world where there is a possibility of spiritual development outside of the context of that religion. This is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seyyed-hossein-nasr/there-is-no-religion-in-the-world-where-there-is-a-possibility-of/)

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> [Justice is inseparable from truth in human life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seyyed-hossein-nasr/justice-is-inseparable-from-truth-in-human-life/)

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