78 Quotes by Ameen Rihani


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    Like matter itself, an ideal is mutable, but indestructible. It does not die; it only undergoes a change.

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    I renounce falsehood, whatsoever be the guise it assumes, and I embrace truth, wheresoever I find it.

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    I am for reformation by emigration. The emigration of the mind before the revolution of the state. The soul and mind must be free before one has a right to be a member of a free government.

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    Light, Love, and Will - the one is as necessary as the other; the one is dangerous without the others. Light, Love, and Will are the three eternal, vital sources of the higher, truer, purer cosmic life.

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    Foreign culture is as necessary to the spirit of a nation as is foreign commerce to its industries.

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    Virtue, once bragged about, once you pride yourself upon it, ceases to be such.

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    Our Phoenician ancestors never left anything they undertook unfinished. Consider what they accomplished in their days, and the degree of culture they attained.

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