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“We should not be ashamed to acknowledge truth from whatever source it comes to us, even if it is brought to us by former generations and foreign people. For him who seeks the truth there is nothing if higher value than truth itself”
― Albert Hourani, A History of the Arab Peoples

tags: seeking-truth, truth, value, worldliness-worldview

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“Knowledge is better than wealth, because you must take care of wealth but knowledge takes care of you”
― Nizam al-Mulk

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“we shall quickly find ourselves about as important to the algorithms as animals currently are to us.”
― Niall Ferguson, The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook

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“And how can someone be described as flawless [or protector] who is not freed from his lower self”
― Imam Al-Ghazali

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“Ibn Arabi observes that the most perfect of mystic lovers are
those who love God simultaneously for himself and for them-
selves, because this capacity reveals in them the unification of
their twofold nature (a resolution of the torn "conscience
malheureuse" ). He who has made himself capable of such love
is able to do so because he combines mystic knowledge ( ma
rrifa ) with vision ( shuhud) .”
― Henry Corbin, Alone with the Alone: Creative Imagination in the Sufism of Ibn 'Arabi

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