حنان سالم

“A steady recognition that the evils which prevent the fullness of moral development are precisely the elements which are also the source of the power that gives existence to whatever moral accomplishments we see about us may eventually lead us to a tolerance we grant to the internal-combustion engine: it is noisy and smelly, and occasionally, it refuses to start, but it is what gets us to wherever we get.
We must somehow learn to understand and so to tolerate- not destroy- the free society.”
― Michael Polanyi, Meaning

“We do not accept a religion because it offers us certain rewards. The only thing that a religion can offer us is to be just what it, in itself, is: a greater meaning in ourselves, in our lives, and in our grasp of the nature of things...a religion exists for us only if, like a piece of poetry, it carries us away. It is not in any sense a 'hypothesis.”
― Michael Polanyi, Meaning

“ان الله لا يجزى طهارة النفس بسلامة الجسم, و لا يعاقب على خطيئة الروح بسقم الأبدان. هذا بعض تفكير الذين يقيسون علمه بجهلهم”
― محمد كامل حسين, قرية ظالمة

“We know more than we can tell.”
― Michael Polanyi