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In the Lakes of Light, Love and Will, I would baptize all mankind.

Ameen Rihani

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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
Baptize
Lakes
Mankind
Light
Would
Love

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The West for me means ambition, the East contentment. My heart is ever in one, my soul in the other.
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Freedom of the Spirit is the cornerstone of all freedom.
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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.
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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 circle and included him.
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... And if Europe gives Arabia a railway, Arabia gives Europe an idea - which I think balances the account.
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Yes, I am calling for an intellectual revolution that sweeps away the corruption, absurdity and error, which prevail in morals, customs, traditions, and doctrines.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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At this moment, my soul is in Lebanon, my heart in Paris, and my body in New York.
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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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What is life without its angles of difficulty and defeat, and its tip of triumph and power?
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The footsteps of a pioneer become ultimately the highway of a nation.
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The will is the spirit of perseverance, and perseverance holds clear success.
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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 desert is greater than the pyramids, and the sea is greater than the desert, and the heavens are greater than the sea.
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My American walking shoes are new, and my Oriental eyes are old.
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I state the threefold purpose of my travels in Arabia: to see the country, to write about it and to be of some service to its people and their cause - that is what brought me from beyond the seas, from America.
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Breathless and unharmed, we emerge from the mazes of metaphysics and psychology where man and the soul are playing hide-and-seek.
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