“For although there is not a single aspect of European growth in which the decisive influence of Islamic culture is not traceable, nowhere is it so clear and momentous as in the genesis of that power which constitutes the permanent distinctive force of the modern world, and the supreme source of its victory, natural science and the scientific spirit.” WorldSpiritCultureForceGrowthNaturalClearInfluenceModernSourceVictoryAspectSupremePermanentIslamicModern WorldGenesisDistinctiveNatural ScienceIslamic Culture Author:Robert Briffault
“The full-grown modern human being who seeks but refuge finds instead boredom and mental dissolution, unless he can be, even in his withdrawal, creative. He can find the quality of happiness in the strain and travail only of achievement and growth. And he is conscious of touching the highest pinnacle of fulfillment which his life-urges demand when his is consumed in the service of an idea, in the conquest of the goal pursued.” LifeHumansIdeasGoalGrowthHuman BeingsQualityCreativeModernDemandAchievementHighestConsciousFulfillmentBoredomUrgesTouchingRefugeStrainConquestConsumedPursuedWithdrawalDissolutionPinnacle Book:Reasons for anger Source: Reasons for anger
