Philip Khuri Hitti famous quotes

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I wanted to live. For the father and brother who I never knew and for my mother who was cheated of a life of happiness. I wanted to live for them. And I wanted to live for me.
I've taken a philosophical position on e-mail. Although I think it's a wonderful communication technology, and it has a lot of good uses, it is abused quite a lot.
The most important thing you do everyday you live is deciding not to kill yourself.
When I study philosophical works I feel I am swallowing something which I don't have in my mouth.
It is inconceivable to me that an ethical relation to land can exist without love, respect, and admiration for land, and a high regard for its value. By value, I of course mean something far broader than mere economic value; I mean value in the philosophical sense.
Men and women are not free to love decently until they have analyzed themselves completely and swept away every mystery from sex; and this means the acquisition of a profound philosophical theory based on wide reading of anthropology and enlightened practice.
Do not be fooled by your youthful appearance for very soon it would be taken away from you.
The beginning of knowledge is the intention, then listening, then understanding, then action, then preservation, and then spreading it.
I studied adab for thirty years and I studied knowledge for twenty years.
To allow the construction of places of worship other than Islamic ones in Saudi Arabia, it would be like asking the Vatican to build a mosque inside of it.

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