Ameen Rihani Quotes

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• My first wish is to be simple in my actions, truthful in my speech, honest in my opinions, and natural in my behavior. In other words, I want to be clean in mind, heart, and body.

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  Heart, Simple, Mind

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• When we go deep enough or high enough, we meet. It is only on the surface that we differ and sometimes clash. True, we do not always find our way to the depth or the height, or we do not take the trouble to do so.

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  Depth, Height, Way

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• Ignorance and fear are twins whose mother is slavery and whose father is oppression, and the mentality of the whole family is that of slaves.

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  Mother, Father, Ignorance

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• The religious fanatic drew a small circle and left me, the infidel, outside it. However, I, with the help of love, won over him - I drew a large circle and included him.

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  Religious, Circles, Helping

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• The footsteps of a pioneer become ultimately the highway of a nation.

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  Pioneers, Highways, Nations

  Ameen Fares Rihani (1921). “The Path of Vision: Pocket Essays of East and West”

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• Freedom of the Spirit is the cornerstone of all freedom.

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  Spirit, Cornerstones

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• Had courage, wisdom, and reason always prevailed in people, there would not have been oppressions and oppressors.

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  People, Oppression, Reason

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• The heart yields spontaneity; the mind bends to understanding.

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  Heart, Yield, Understanding

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• In the desert you become a discoverer. You discover your soul, which had been submerged in vain pursuits, which had been lost in the coils and toils of modern life. You discover your kinship with nature and man, which is evoked by the naturalness and the gentle humanity of the natives of the desert, and you will also discover God.

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  Men, Humanity, Over You

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• To us all, life is a gift, liberty is a right, and the pursuit of happiness is the object supreme. But our conduct in the pursuit differs in accordance with the measure of justice we uphold. A common measure is only possible when we begin to understand and learn to appreciate each other's point of view and point of direction.

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  Pursuit Of Happiness, Views, Appreciate

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• Genius everywhere is one. In the Orient and in the Occident the deep thinkers are kin, the poets are cousins, the pioneers of the spirit are the messengers of peace and good will to the world. Their works are the open highways between nations, and they themselves are the ever living guardians and guides.

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  Cousin, World, Messengers

  Ameen Rihani (2016). “The Book of Khalid: A Critical Edition”, p.379, Syracuse University Press

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• Whether you were Moslem, Christian, Druze, or Israeli, remember, God protect thee, that religious fanaticism for political goals or political fanaticism for religious purposes is the worst kind of fanaticism.

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  Christian, Religious, Goal

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• Truth breeds power, and truth never perishes.

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• I give priority to up-bringing over education because the ultimate goal of up-bringing is morals, and we have a more urgent need for morals than for knowledge.

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  Giving, Goal, Priorities

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• Light, Love, and Will - the one is as necessary as the other; the one is dangerous without the others. Light, Love, and Will are the three eternal, vital sources of the higher, truer, purer cosmic life.

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  Light, Three, Source

  Ameen Rihani (2016). “The Book of Khalid: A Critical Edition”, p.183, Syracuse University Press

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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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  Heart, Ambition, Mean

  Ameen Rihani (2016). “The Book of Khalid: A Critical Edition”, p.179, Syracuse University Press

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• Self-reliance leads to intellectual independence. Each man must think for himself, must train the mind to think, must habituate the soul to observe and analyze.

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  Men, Thinking, Self

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• I renounce falsehood, whatsoever be the guise it assumes, and I embrace truth, wheresoever I find it.

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  Assuming, Embrace, Renounce

  Ameen Rihani (2016). “The Book of Khalid: A Critical Edition”, p.215, Syracuse University Press

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• Like matter itself, an ideal is mutable, but indestructible. It does not die; it only undergoes a change.

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  Doe, Matter, Ideals

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

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  Errors, Intellectual, Doctrine

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• Knowledge is one of our direst needs. But it is insufficient on its own. If knowledge was stripped from true up-bringing, it would increase man's strength, but not his morals.

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  Men, Needs, Moral

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• Foreign culture is as necessary to the spirit of a nation as is foreign commerce to its industries.

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  Culture, Spirit, Commerce

  Ameen Rihani (2016). “The Book of Khalid: A Critical Edition”, p.183, Syracuse University Press

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• You teacher, teach your pupils freedom in thought and deed, honesty in thought and deed, and tolerance in thought and deed.

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  Teacher, Honesty, Tolerance

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

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  Philosophy, Airplane, East

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• My American walking shoes are new, and my Oriental eyes are old.

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  Eye, Shoes, Walking Shoes

  Ameen Fares Rihani (1921). “The Path of Vision: Pocket Essays of East and West”

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