All Seyyed Hossein Nasr Quotes
- The traditional doctrine of man and not the measurement of skulls and footprints is the key for the understanding of that anthropos who, despite the… Aftermath
- The significance of the vast Islamic scientific tradition for Muslims and especially for young Muslims today is not only that it gives them a sense… Able
- The life of Islamic philosophy did not terminate with Ibn Rushd nearly eight hundred years ago, as thought by Western scholarship for several centuries. Rather,… Activities
- From it genesis twelve hundred years ago to today, Islamic philosophy (al-hikmah; al-falsafah) has been one of the major intellectual traditions within the Islamic world,… Ago
- In traditional societies, nature was seen as one’s wife, but the modern West turned it into a prostitute. Inspirational
- 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… All
- Only in the West did a philosophy develop that was not only no longer the love of wisdom but went so far as to deny… Appropriately
- 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… All
- 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… All
- 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… All
- 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. Breathing
- To be modern is to destroy nature. Destroy
- 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… Art
- It is for Muslim scholars to study the whole history of Islamic science completely and not only the chapters and periods which influenced Western science.… America