5 Quotes by Aga Khan

Primitive religious experience and primitive scientific reasoning were linked together in magic, in wizardry. Thus, at one and the same time mankind's experiences in the realm of sensation and his strivings to explain and co-ordinate those experiences in terms of his mind led to the birth of both science and religion.

The truth about a man as much as about a country or an institution is better than legend,myth and falsehood.

It is not possible for me to assess the success or failure of what I have tried to do; final judgment lies elsewhere.

Every day has been so short, every hour so fleeting, every minute so filled with the life I love that time for me has fled on too swift a wing.

As you build your lives, for yourselves and others, you will come to rest upon certain principles. Central to my life has been a verse in the Holy Quran which addresses itself to the whole of humanity. It says: ‘Oh Mankind, fear your Lord, who created you of a single soul, and from it created its mate, and from the pair of them scattered abroad many men and women’. I know of no more beautiful expression about the unity of our human race – born indeed from a single soul.