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To be modern is to destroy nature.


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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.



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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.



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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.



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Justice is inseparable from truth in human life.



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All Muslims stand before God and they are their own priests.



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I wish someone could get rid of individuality so easily; one never gets rid of one's individuality completely. One gets rid of one's egotism, which is a very different matter.





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