Quote

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

Ameen Rihani

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Ameen Rihani
Age: 63 †
Born: 1876
Born: November 24
Died: 1940
Died: September 13
Essayist
Historian
Novelist
Poet
Politician
Writer
Ottoman Levant
Amīn Fāris Anṭūn ar-Rīḥānī
Ameen Fares Rihani
Amin Rihani
Nations
Culture
Spirit
Industries
Commerce
Foreign
Necessary
Nation
Industry

More quotes by Ameen Rihani

Image
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 knowledge.
Ameen Rihani
Image
Mutual tolerance is the stepping stone to mutual respect. A hospitable mind is the key to a neighboring or an alien spirit, looked by dogma and guarded by tradition.
Ameen Rihani
Image
Breathless and unharmed, we emerge from the mazes of metaphysics and psychology where man and the soul are playing hide-and-seek.
Ameen Rihani
Image
I proceeded in my national mission, seeking to pave the way for an understanding between His Majesty and the other ruling princes of Arabia.
Ameen Rihani
Image
The West for me means ambition, the East contentment. My heart is ever in one, my soul in the other.
Ameen Rihani
Image
We have to dissolve all the denominations in order to form from them the greater denomination of the homeland.
Ameen Rihani
Image
We must strive to form a comprehensive sublime nationalism whose first principal is national geographic unity and must strengthen this unity with deeds not with words.
Ameen Rihani
Image
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 soul such a twist as to deform it forever.
Ameen Rihani
Image
True up-bringing is restricted to two types of welfare the welfare of the body and that of the mind.
Ameen Rihani
Image
In the Lakes of Light, Love and Will, I would baptize all mankind.
Ameen Rihani
Image
Whether you were Moslem, Christian, Druze, or Israeli, remember, God protect thee, that religious fanaticism for political goals or political fanaticism for religious purposes is the worst kind of fanaticism.
Ameen Rihani
Image
Truth breeds power, and truth never perishes.
Ameen Rihani
Image
At this moment, my soul is in Lebanon, my heart in Paris, and my body in New York.
Ameen Rihani
Image
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.
Ameen Rihani
Image
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.
Ameen Rihani
Image
Like the seasons of the year, like history, truth always repeats itself.
Ameen Rihani
Image
You teacher, teach your pupils freedom in thought and deed, honesty in thought and deed, and tolerance in thought and deed.
Ameen Rihani
Image
Had courage, wisdom, and reason always prevailed in people, there would not have been oppressions and oppressors.
Ameen Rihani
Image
I am the East. I have philosophies, I have religions, who would exchange them for airplanes?
Ameen Rihani
Image
I want to accept all the difficulties that face me in life with perseverance and patience.
Ameen Rihani