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"There is a very simple reason why a 'theory of everything' eludes the scientists. The material realm of the scientist is part of a greater reality. The mereological principle stands; the part cannot contain the whole. The scientist's desire for unity is a fundamental and natural human aspiration, but it can only be realized through the totality of the human cognition." pg 91

"In Christianity, as in Islam, freedom is achieved when the carnal self is conquered." pg 73

"Over the last five hundred years, the West has gone on a journey that began with absolute sovereignty being vested in God, then with it passing into the monarchy and the sovereign nation state, then being vested in the people through democracy, and finally ending up with the sovereignty of the individual."