Seyyed Hossein Nasr famous quotes

03-24-2025

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 but shadows
-- Seyyed Hossein Nasr

#Reality #Shadow #God Love
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 and leave it for Him to decide on the intensity and sincerity of our loves, as well as of our differing views of Him
-- Seyyed Hossein Nasr

#Views #Cost #Our Love
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.
-- Seyyed Hossein Nasr

#Breathing #Growth #Quests
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 required is withdrawal of the soul from the tumult of sensory life.
-- Seyyed Hossein Nasr

#Dream #Strong #Soul
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 of pride in their own civilization because of the prestige that science fhas in the present day world. It is furthermore a testament to the way Islam was able to cultivate various sciences extensively without becoming alienated from the Islamic world view and without creating a science whose application would destroy the world of nature and the harmony that must exist between man and the natural environment.
-- Seyyed Hossein Nasr

#Islamic #Pride #Men
In traditional societies, nature was seen as oneâ€™s wife, but the modern West turned it into a prostitute.
-- Seyyed Hossein Nasr

#Wife #West #Modern
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, its activities continued strongly during the later centuries, particularly in Persia and other eastern lands of Islam, and it was revived in Egypt during the last century.
-- Seyyed Hossein Nasr

#Philosophy #Islamic #Eight
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 the category of wisdom as a legitimate form of knowledge. The result was a hatred of wisdom that should more appropriately be called â€˜misosophyâ€™ (literarily hatred of Sophia, Wisdom) rather than philosophy.
-- Seyyed Hossein Nasr

#Philosophy #Hatred #West
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 of the basest of creatures.
-- Seyyed Hossein Nasr

#Fall #Men #Levels
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 upon the effect of art on the soul of the human being.
-- Seyyed Hossein Nasr

#Art #Islamic #Soul
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, and it has influenced and been influenced by many other intellectual perspectives, including Scholastic theology (kalam) and doctrinal Sufism (al-ma'rifah or al-tasawwuf al-'ilmi) and theoretical gnosis ('irfan-i nazari).
-- Seyyed Hossein Nasr

#Philosophy #Islamic #Years
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 rebellion of Promethean man against Heaven from the period of Renaissance and its aftermath, is still the inner man of every man, the reality which no human being can deny wherever and whenever he lives, the imprint of a theomorphic nature which no historical change and transformation can erase completely from the face of that creature called man.
-- Seyyed Hossein Nasr

#Reality #Men #Skulls
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. It is also for Muslim scholars to present the tradition of Islamic science from the point of view of Islam itself and not from the point of view of the scientism, rationalism and positivism which have dominated the history of science in the West since the establishment of the discipline in the early part of the 20th century in Europe and America.
-- Seyyed Hossein Nasr

#Islamic #Views #Europe
To be modern is to destroy nature.
-- Seyyed Hossein Nasr

#Environmental #Modern

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