Occupation: Writer Birth: November 24, 1876 Death: September 13, 1940
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….
Our Phoenician ancestors never left anything they undertook unfinished. Consider what they accomplished in their days, and the degree of culture they….
My American walking shoes are new, and my Oriental eyes are old..
We must strive to form a comprehensive sublime nationalism whose first principal is national geographic unity and must strengthen this unity with dee….
... And if Europe gives Arabia a railway, Arabia gives Europe an idea - which I think balances the account..
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 ri….
We have to dissolve all the denominations in order to form from them the greater denomination of the homeland..
I renounce falsehood, whatsoever be the guise it assumes, and I embrace truth, wheresoever I find it..
Genius everywhere is one. In the Orient and in the Occident the deep thinkers are kin, the poets are cousins, the pioneers of the spirit are the mess….
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 ….
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?.
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..
The West for me means ambition, the East contentment. My heart is ever in one, my soul in the other..