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Bolshevism is the other end of Czarism.
Truth breeds power, and truth never perishes.
No boundaries exist in our breast: We are free .
Freedom of the Spirit is the cornerstone of all freedom.
The heart yields spontaneity; the mind bends to understanding.
My American walking shoes are new, and my Oriental eyes are old.
In the Lakes of Light, Love and Will, I would baptize all mankind.
The footsteps of a pioneer become ultimately the highway of a nation.
Like the seasons of the year, like history, truth always repeats itself.
The will is the spirit of perseverance, and perseverance holds clear success.
Virtue, once bragged about, once you pride yourself upon it, ceases to be such.
At this moment, my soul is in Lebanon, my heart in Paris, and my body in New York.
Society may be likened to a rod, which only a just government can balance properly.
Revolution applies a local anaesthetic to one class of society and operates on the other.
I want to accept all the difficulties that face me in life with perseverance and patience.
What is life without its angles of difficulty and defeat, and its tip of triumph and power?
I am the East. I have philosophies, I have religions, who would exchange them for airplanes?
Autocracy is a government of the few from above; Bolshevism is a government of the few from below.
Foreign culture is as necessary to the spirit of a nation as is foreign commerce to its industries.
The West for me means ambition, the East contentment. My heart is ever in one, my soul in the other.
I renounce falsehood, whatsoever be the guise it assumes, and I embrace truth, wheresoever I find it.
True up-bringing is restricted to two types of welfare; the welfare of the body and that of the mind.
We are all idealists in that we are ever discontented with the present state of the Ego and the World.
Like matter itself, an ideal is mutable, but indestructible. It does not die; it only undergoes a change.
... And if Europe gives Arabia a railway, Arabia gives Europe an idea - which I think balances the account.
Weak and oppressed nations are fundamentally spiritual; strong nations are, as a rule, chiefly materialistic.
We have to dissolve all the denominations in order to form from them the greater denomination of the homeland.
Had courage, wisdom, and reason always prevailed in people, there would not have been oppressions and oppressors.
In a true democracy is the cure for most of our social and political ills, but a few of them must remain to keep us going.
Revolution is glorified by intellectuals, apotheosized by poets, sanctified by visionaries, and bled white by politicians.
You teacher, teach your pupils freedom in thought and deed, honesty in thought and deed, and tolerance in thought and deed.
Breathless and unharmed, we emerge from the mazes of metaphysics and psychology where man and the soul are playing hide-and-seek.
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.
Training the will in trivial and grave matters increases its strength and flexibility, and enables man to constantly strive and persevere.
Old Arabic books, printed in Bulaq, generally have a broad margin wherein a separate work, independent of the text, adds gloom to the page.
I proceeded in my national mission, seeking to pave the way for an understanding between His Majesty and the other ruling princes of Arabia.
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.
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
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.
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.
Our Phoenician ancestors never left anything they undertook unfinished. Consider what they accomplished in their days, and the degree of culture they attained.
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.
Yes, I am calling for an intellectual revolution that sweeps away the corruption, absurdity and error, which prevail in morals, customs, traditions, and doctrines.
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.
All things, good and evil, come out, it seems, of the East. The Illuminati, like the Ismailites, dealt in allegories; and like the Mazdakites, they played with fire.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Bolshevism may be Marxian in theory, but it is Hulagoesque in practice. It may be of European descent, but it is Oriental in tradition. Oriental in mood. Oriental in temperament.