51 Quotes by Seyyed Hossein Nasr

The order of the Universe is identified with the Divine Mind, and the scientist is said to be discovering the mind of God in his scientific pursuits. Scientific method itself has been called a Christian method of discovering God's mind.

Traditional art extended itself to the whole of life and left an imprint of beauty upon the everyday existence of human beings rather than being concerned only with paintings that we put in museums and at best visit a few Sundays each year.

The idea of writing the history of philosophy as philosophy began with Hegel’s influence in Germany, and then it spread to France and England, and histories of philosophies began to appear everywhere in Europe and America.

It is not true to say that the sun is only incandescent gas, although this is an aspect of its reality. It is also as true to say that the sun is the symbol of the intelligible principle in the Universe and this element is as much an aspect of its ontological reality as the physical features discovered by modem astronomy.

To consider Western science simply as a continuation of Islamic science is, therefore, to misunderstand completely both the epistemological foundations of the two sciences and the relationship that each has to the world of faith and revelation. It is also to misunderstand the metaphysical and philosophical backgrounds of the two sciences.

أن العالم الاسلامي ينام على كنوز من الحكمة ، وأن الغفلة عنها لا تدل بأي شكل من الأشكال على عدم وجود هذه الحكمة

In traditional societies, nature was seen as one’s wife, but the modern West turned it into a prostitute.

The environmental crisis has deep spiritual, philosophical, and religious roots and causes. It is not merely the result of bad engineering.

The love of God is not only the highest form of love, but also in reality the only love of which all other loves are but shadows.