It is difficult to generalize about Islam. To begin with, the word itself is commonly used with two related but distinct meanings,… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
Present global culture is a kind of arrogant newcomer. It arrives on the planetary stage following four and a half billion years… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The very essence of the Sufi spiritual tradition requires you to purify your heart, to liberate yourself from your ego and to… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
I am the East. I have philosophies, I have religions, who would exchange them for airplanes? — Ameen Rihani Copy Share Image
There was an offer from Tottenham when I was leaving Spain to go to Milan, and at the time, I chose to… — Rivaldo Copy Share Image
Do not believe a thing because you have read about it in a book. Do not believe a thing because another man… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Supreme art is a traditional statement of certain heroic and religious truth, passed on from age to age, modified by individual genius,… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“MURRY: Resolutions are a complete waste of time. They're just this meaningless ritual, empty promises we make and break within hours of… — Hillary DePiano Copy Share Image
That became my aesthetic - a very Chekhovian, American realist aesthetic in the tradition of Raymond Carver, Richard Ford, and Tobias Wolff.… — Jess Row Copy Share Image
The value of the television network is partly tradition, serving as a navigation device and as a brand. Research shows that people… — Anne Sweeney Copy Share Image
Early on, I learnt from the Russian intelligentsia that the only meaning of life lies in conscious participation in the making of… — Victor Serge Copy Share Image
It is indeed a striking proof of the essential soundness of the tradition that with which all these thousands of copies, tracing… — Frederic G. Kenyon Copy Share Image
I find myself doing fieldwork physically, in the tradition of anthropology. I literally go to the opposite end of the world, to… — Aleksandra Mir Copy Share Image
It's a great Disney tradition, isn't it? For every single character to die in all their movies. — Gareth Edwards Copy Share Image
Since Reagan there has been this tradition, which has become a cliche, of promising morning in America, this fake optimism, we're the… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
I would like to study Judaism. I feel that my own Jewish education was really quite superficial from a certain point of… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
The Bible is interpreted by the Talmud. Except, in Rabbinic tradition, a Talmudic law has the weight of the Biblical law. Sometimes… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I have not been able to give a concrete answer to the question of how the nations of Asia can create their… — Henry Rosovsky Copy Share Image
Just as some of the most ardent political ideologues in the West are young people, revolutionaries, the '60s generation, - in Islam… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
We built our fashion around three fundamental concepts: Sicily, tailoring, and tradition. Our dream is to create a style which is timeless,… — Domenico Dolce Copy Share Image
I felt we must separate political responsibility. The Dalai Lama should not carry that burden. So that is my selfish reason -… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
French rhetorical models are too narrow for the English tradition. Most pernicious of French imports is the notion that there is no… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
It’s so dangerous to idealize anything, or anyone, or any place, because it gives that thing or person or place a kind… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
