Absurdity Quote by Ameen Rihani

“Yes, I am calling for an intellectual revolution that sweeps away the corruption, absurdity and error, which prevail in morals, customs, traditions, and doctrines.” quote by Ameen Rihani — Download Open image

“Yes, I am calling for an intellectual revolution that sweeps away the corruption, absurdity and error, which prevail in morals, customs, traditions, and doctrines.”

Ameen Rihani

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The West for me means ambition, the East contentment. My heart is ever in one, my soul in the other.

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I am the East. I have philosophies, I have religions, who would exchange them for airplanes?

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