"Justice implies knowledge of the right and proper……" — Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas
"Justice implies knowledge of the right and proper place for a thing or a being to be; of right as against wrong; of the mean and limit; of spiritual gain as against loss; of truth as against falsehood."
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Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas
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10 Quotes by Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas
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Man is like an island set in isolation in a fathomless sea enveloped by darkness, saying that the loneliness his…
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Islam is a religion based upon knowledge, and a denial of the possibility and objectivity of knowledge would involve the…
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Today I meet with Dr. Syamsuddin Arif. He said Prof. al-Attas says, "I don't read much but I think a…
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Seeing that he owns absolutely nothing to ‘repay’ his debt, ‘his own consciousness’ of the fact ‘that he is himself…
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Justice and injustice indeed begins and ends with the self.
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To know how to put what knowledge in which place is wisdom (hikmah). Otherwise, knowledge without order and seeking it…
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Change, development and progress, according to the Islamic viewpoint, refer to the return to the genuine Islam enunciated and practised…
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It is like the thirsty traveller who at first sincerely sought the water of knowledge, but who later, having found…
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But the philosophical and scientific process which I call 'secularization' necessarily involves the divesting of spiritual meaning from the world…
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More Falsehood Quotes
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I don't want to lie. I dislike dishonesty. And I work in Hollywood, a town and a business that relies…
— David Arquette
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The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.
— Abu Bakr
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He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.
— Abu Bakr
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The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound…
— Niels Bohr
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Falsehood is a perennial spring.
— Edmund Burke
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Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.
— Albert Camus
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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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In all general questions which become the subjects of discussion, there are always some truths mixed with falsehoods. I confess,…
— Alexander Hamilton
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