Phoebe Aster Skylake
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This translation was incredible and beautiful. I hope there will be reprints of Muhammad Asad's translation of the Qur'an in the future.
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“Happiness is not the reward of virtue, but is virtue itself; nor do we delight in happiness because we restrain from our lusts; but on the contrary, because we delight in it, therefore we are able to restrain them.”
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“Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to stare at them in astonishment like fools, are soon considered heretical and impious, and proclaimed as such by those whom the mob adores as the interpreters of nature and the gods. For these men know that, once ignorance is put aside, that wonderment would be taken away, which is the only means by which their authority is preserved.”
― Ethics
― Ethics
“You could not be born at a better period than the present, when we have lost everything.”
― Gravity and Grace
― Gravity and Grace
“The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.”
― Waiting for God
― Waiting for God
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