Occupation: Writer Birth: November 24, 1876 Death: September 13, 1940
Knowledge is one of our direst needs. But it is insufficient on its own. If knowledge was stripped from true up-bringing, it would increase man's str….
Truth breeds power, and truth never perishes..
In the desert you become a discoverer. You discover your soul, which had been submerged in vain pursuits, which had been lost in the coils and toils ….
The religious fanatic drew a small circle and left me, the infidel, outside it. However, I, with the help of love, won over him - I drew a large circ….
We can not understand each other, if our sympathies are always safely tucked away; we can not understand each other, if our approaches are always aca….
When we go deep enough or high enough, we meet. It is only on the surface that we differ and sometimes clash. True, we do not always find our way to ….
Ignorance and fear are twins whose mother is slavery and whose father is oppression, and the mentality of the whole family is that of slaves..
To us all, life is a gift, liberty is a right, and the pursuit of happiness is the object supreme. But our conduct in the pursuit differs in accordan….
The heart yields spontaneity; the mind bends to understanding..
Freedom of the Spirit is the cornerstone of all freedom..
I give priority to up-bringing over education because the ultimate goal of up-bringing is morals, and we have a more urgent need for morals than for ….
We have to dissolve all the denominations in order to form from them the greater denomination of the homeland..
The broader and higher aspects of life are international.... There is a goal towards which all nations gravitate, and there is a common ground upon w….
A poet is a poet, whether he rides in a Ford or on a donkey; a sage is a sage, whether he plays golf in New Jersey or bathes in the Ganges, or prays ….
True knowledge is power; but in order to feel at home with it, we must be constitutionally qualified. And if we are not, it is likely to give the sou….
An object is great in proportion to its power of resistance to time and the elements. That is why we think the pyramids are great. But see, the deser….
... And if Europe gives Arabia a railway, Arabia gives Europe an idea - which I think balances the account..
Fire and light compete today in the East. But there is a lot of green firewood in this fire, and there is a lot of smoke in that light..
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, v….
I am the East. I have philosophies, I have religions, who would exchange them for airplanes?.
No boundaries exist in our breast: We are free ..