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Ameen Rihani

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Ameen Rihani was a distinguished Lebanese writer whose extensive literary works have left a lasting impact on Arabic literature. Born on November 24, 1876, he was a prominent figure in the literary world, known for his contributions to poetry, prose, and essays. Rihani's writings often reflected his deep understanding of Islamic philosophy and his commitment to social justice. He passed away on September 13, 1940.

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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.”

Want Mind Firsts Heart Body Action Wish Natural Simple Opinion Honest Speech Behavior Clean Truthful Mind Heart

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“I want to accept all the difficulties that face me in life with perseverance and patience.”

Want Faces Accepting Difficulty Perseverance

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“The duties I ask of myself are obligatory for absolutely every individual, everywhere. Moreover, just as I recognize these rights and duties of others, I would like the others to recognize them form me as well.”

Wells Form Asks Individual Rights Duty Rights And Duties

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“If I were capable of assisting someone, I would do it in a manner that would cause the person seeking assistance to work, so he assists himself.”

Ifs Persons Causes Capable Seeking Assistance Assisting

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“If I had in me something that inspires people towards the good and raises them one step on the ladder of mental and spiritual progress, I want to show it by example, indication, and deduction, not by preaching, threatening, and conspiring.”

People Ifs Want Shows Spiritual Steps Progress Example Inspire Raises Preaching Threatening Ladders Indication Deductions Conspiring Spiritual Progress

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“An object is great in proportion to its power of resistance to time and the elements. That is why we think the pyramids are great. But see, the desert is greater than the pyramids, and the sea is greater than the desert, and the heavens are greater than the sea.”

Thinking Heaven Greater Sea Objects Elements Resistance Desert Proportion Pyramids

Book:The Book of Khalid: A Critical Edition

Source: The Book of Khalid: A Critical Edition

“True knowledge is power; but in order to feel at home with it, we must be constitutionally qualified. And if we are not, it is likely to give the soul such a twist as to deform it forever.”

Ifs Giving Feels Soul Home Order Forever Twists Qualified Knowledge Is Power True Knowledge

Book:The Book of Khalid: A Critical Edition

Source: The Book of Khalid: A Critical Edition

“What is life without its angles of difficulty and defeat, and its tip of triumph and power?”

Difficulty Defeat Triumph Angle What Is Life

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“Our Phoenician ancestors never left anything they undertook unfinished. Consider what they accomplished in their days, and the degree of culture they attained.”

Culture Left Degrees Accomplished Ancestor Unfinished Phoenicians

Book:The Book of Khalid

Source: The Book of Khalid

“Virtue, once bragged about, once you pride yourself upon it, ceases to be such.”

Virtue Pride Cease

Book:The Book of Khalid: A Critical Edition

Source: The Book of Khalid: A Critical Edition

“Breathless and unharmed, we emerge from the mazes of metaphysics and psychology where man and the soul are playing hide-and-seek.”

Men Soul Psychology Metaphysics Mazes Breathless Hide And Seek Playing Hide And Seek

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

Spirit Culture Nations Industry Commerce Foreign Culture

Book:The Book of Khalid: A Critical Edition

Source: The Book of Khalid: A Critical Edition

“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.”

Light Three Dangerous Source Higher Eternal Cosmic

Book:The Book of Khalid: A Critical Edition

Source: The Book of Khalid: A Critical Edition

“I am for reformation by emigration. The emigration of the mind before the revolution of the state. The soul and mind must be free before one has a right to be a member of a free government.”

Mind Soul States Government Revolution Members Reformation Free Government Emigration

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

Embrace Assuming Falsehood Renounce Guise

Book:The Book of Khalid: A Critical Edition

Source: The Book of Khalid: A Critical Edition

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

Doe Matter Dies Ideals Indestructible

Author:Ameen Rihani

“... And if Europe gives Arabia a railway, Arabia gives Europe an idea - which I think balances the account.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Ideas Balance Europe Accounts Arabia Railway

Book:The Path of Vision: Pocket Essays of East and West

Source: The Path of Vision: Pocket Essays of East and West

“Like the seasons of the year, like history, truth always repeats itself.”

Years Seasons Repeats

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“The footsteps of a pioneer become ultimately the highway of a nation.”

Nations Highways Pioneers Footsteps

Book:The Path of Vision: Pocket Essays of East and West

Source: The Path of Vision: Pocket Essays of East and West

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

Eye Walking Shoes Walking Shoes

Book:The Path of Vision: Pocket Essays of East and West

Source: The Path of Vision: Pocket Essays of East and West

“The West for me means ambition, the East contentment. My heart is ever in one, my soul in the other.”

Heart Mean Soul My Heart Ambition West East My Soul Contentment

Book:The Book of Khalid: A Critical Edition

Source: The Book of Khalid: A Critical Edition

“In the Lakes of Light, Love and Will, I would baptize all mankind.”

Light Mankind Lakes

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“Freedom of the Spirit is the cornerstone of all freedom.”

Spirit Cornerstones

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“At this moment, my soul is in Lebanon, my heart in Paris, and my body in New York.”

Heart Soul Moments Body New York My Heart My Soul Paris Lebanon

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

People Has Beens Reason Oppression Oppressors

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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.”

Whole Mother Father Ignorance Slavery Slave Oppression Mentality Twins Whole Family Ignorance And Fear

Author:Ameen Rihani

“Fire and light compete today in the East. But there is a lot of green firewood in this fire, and there is a lot of smoke in that light.”

Light Today Fire Green East Smoke Firewood

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“... However, there is another method, other than revolution, which is that of natural evolution, or rather the intellectual method with all its modes of education and up-bringing.”

Natural Revolution Evolution Intellectual Method

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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.”

Moral Revolution Calling Intellectual Tradition Errors Corruption Doctrine Customs Absurdity

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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.”

Ifs Men Needs Moral Increase Insufficient

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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.”

Needs Giving Goal Moral Ultimate Priorities Urgent Ultimate Goal

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“True up-bringing is restricted to two types of welfare; the welfare of the body and that of the mind.”

Mind Two Body Type Welfare

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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.”

Thinking Men Mind Soul Self Intellectual Independence Train Self Reliance Reliance

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“Training the will in trivial and grave matters increases its strength and flexibility, and enables man to constantly strive and persevere.”

Men Matter Training Increase Strive Graves Flexibility Persevere

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“The will is the spirit of perseverance, and perseverance holds clear success.”

Spirit Clear Perseverance

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“We have to dissolve all the denominations in order to form from them the greater denomination of the homeland.”

Form Order Greater Homeland Denominations

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“We must strive to form a comprehensive sublime nationalism whose first principal is national geographic unity and must strengthen this unity with deeds not with words.”

Firsts Form Unity Strive Deeds Nationalism Principal Sublime Comprehensive National Geographic

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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.”

Teach Teacher Honesty Deeds Tolerance Pupils

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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.”

Kind Christian Remember Political Purpose Goal Religious Worst Protect Thee Israeli Fanaticism

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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.”

Helping Left Religious Circles Fanatics Infidel Religious Fanatics

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“Truth breeds power, and truth never perishes.”

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“I proceeded in my national mission, seeking to pave the way for an understanding between His Majesty and the other ruling princes of Arabia.”

Way Understanding Seeking Missions Ruling Majesty Arabia

Book:Around the Coasts of Arabia

Source: Around the Coasts of Arabia

“I state the threefold purpose of my travels in Arabia: to see the country, to write about it and to be of some service to its people and their cause - that is what brought me from beyond the seas, from America.”

People Writing Country States America Purpose Causes Sea Arabia

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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.”

World Spirit Nations Poet Genius Guides Thinker Cousin Highways Guardian Good Will Pioneers Messengers Deep Thinker

Book:The Book of Khalid: A Critical Edition

Source: The Book of Khalid: A Critical Edition

“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.”

Way Sometimes Enough Trouble Depth Surface Height Clash

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“The broader and higher aspects of life are international.... There is a goal towards which all nations gravitate, and there is a common ground upon which all nations meet.”

Nations Goal Common Higher Aspect International Common Ground Aspects Of Life

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“A poet is a poet, whether he rides in a Ford or on a donkey; a sage is a sage, whether he plays golf in New Jersey or bathes in the Ganges, or prays in the desert; and a fool is a fool, whether he be a maharaja or a president of a post-war republic.”

War Play President Poet Fool Praying Golf Posts Desert Republic Sage Jersey New Jersey Donkey Post War

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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.”

Life Is Justice Views Common Liberty Objects Appreciate Point Of View Pursuit Supreme Pursuit Of Happiness Life Is A Gift Learn To Appreciate

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“Mutual tolerance is the stepping stone to mutual respect. A hospitable mind is the key to a neighboring or an alien spirit, looked by dogma and guarded by tradition.”

Mind Spirit Keys Tradition Stones Tolerance Aliens Mutual Dogma Guarded Stepping Stones Mutual Respect

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“The heart yields spontaneity; the mind bends to understanding.”

Mind Heart Understanding Yield Spontaneity

Author:Ameen Rihani

About the Author

Born: November 24, 1876
Died: September 13, 1940
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 56

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