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. Ameen Rihani More Quotes by Ameen Rihani More Quotes From Ameen Rihani Had courage, wisdom, and reason always prevailed in people, there would not have been oppressions and oppressors. Ameen Rihani oppression reason people I renounce falsehood, whatsoever be the guise it assumes, and I embrace truth, wheresoever I find it. Ameen Rihani renounce embrace assuming 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. Ameen Rihani east light fire Like the seasons of the year, like history, truth always repeats itself. Ameen Rihani repeats seasons years Yes, I am calling for an intellectual revolution that sweeps away the corruption, absurdity and error, which prevail in morals, customs, traditions, and doctrines. Ameen Rihani doctrine errors intellectual 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. Ameen Rihani source three light True up-bringing is restricted to two types of welfare; the welfare of the body and that of the mind. Ameen Rihani body mind two Foreign culture is as necessary to the spirit of a nation as is foreign commerce to its industries. Ameen Rihani commerce spirit culture Like matter itself, an ideal is mutable, but indestructible. It does not die; it only undergoes a change. Ameen Rihani ideals matter doe We can not understand each other, if our sympathies are always safely tucked away; we can not understand each other, if our approaches are always academic or conventional; we can not understand each other, if we crawl back into our shells every time we see a worm across our path. Ameen Rihani shells academic path I deposit in many banks including the bank of wisdom. The more I draw on my accounts, no matter how big the sum, the bigger my balance becomes Ameen Rihani balance bigs matter 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. Ameen Rihani tolerance keys mind In the Lakes of Light, Love and Will, I would baptize all mankind. Ameen Rihani mankind light lakes 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. Ameen Rihani play golf war ... 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. Ameen Rihani revolution intellectual natural To copy Nature? A boy with a camera can do that. To get the spirit of Nature? A woodman or a shepherd can follow the trail of the whistling wind to hoarded sunshine in distant wolds. But to interpret Nature and inform it with a human personality that rises above it, invokes the divine in it, is the work of genius. Ameen Rihani sunshine nature personality work To be sure, we would not allow the world, if we can help it, to peep into our soul, much less to enter it. Our No-Man's-Land is hedged about with a wire entanglement of insincerities. And often we take refuge in a temperament, a pose, or a mystic mood. Ameen Rihani pose mood soul world Deficiencies in individuals, as in States, have their value and import. Indeed, that sublime impulse of perfectibility, always vivacious, always working under various forms and with one underlying purpose, would be futile without them, and fatuous. Ameen Rihani value without always purpose Only a well-rounded intellect, a spirit nourished in the eternal sources of intelligence and culture, of justice and wisdom, is a safeguard against both indifference and skepticism. Ameen Rihani intelligence wisdom justice culture The most important in the history of nations and individuals was once the most trivial, and vice versa. The plebeian, who is called today the 'man in the street,' can never see and understand the significance of the hidden seed of things, which in time must develop or die. Ameen Rihani man time today history
