“Raphael created his paintings not with his hands but with his spirit. Beethoven wrote his best compositions when he was already deaf.” ArtSpiritualityHumanism Book:Islam between East and West Source: Islam between East and West
“The equality of men is a spiritual and not a natural, physical, or intellectual fact. It exists as a moral quality of man, as the human dignity, or as the equal value of the human personality.... If man's spiritual value is not recognized--this fact of religious character--the only real base of human equality is lost.” SpiritualityHumanismEquality Book:Islam between East and West Source: Islam between East and West
“There is an order to an engine and an order to a melody. These two orders cannot, even in the final analysis, be reduced to a common source... The existence of another world (another order) in addition to the natural one is the basic premise of every religion and art.” ArtSpiritualityHumanism Book:Islam between East and West Source: Islam between East and West
