Author

Frithjof Schuon ق

14 quotes attributed to Frithjof Schuon ق.

• Knowledge of the Substance is the Substance of knowledge.

  — Frithjof Schuon ق

• In a general way the man of the "last days" is a blunted creature, and the best proof of this is that the only "dynamism" of which he is still capable is that which tends downward and which is no more than a passivity taking advantage of...

  — Frithjof Schuon ق, Ellipsis and Hyberbolism in Arabic Rhetoric, Sufism: Veil and Quintessence

• Intelligence is beautiful only when it does not destroy faith, and faith is beautiful only when it is not opposed to intelligence.

  — Frithjof Schuon ق, Pradoxes of an Esoterism, Sufism: Veil and Quintessence

• ...it is better to follow the truth stupidly than to follow error intelligently...

  — Frithjof Schuon ق, Paradoxes of an Esoterism, Sufism: Veil and Quintessence

• Love can sanctify the flesh, just as the flesh can debase love.

  — Frithjof Schuon ق

• The manifestation of Truth is a mystery of Love, just as, conversely, the content of Love is a mystery of Truth.

  — Frithjof Schuon ق, Understanding Islam

• To identify oneself with Truth, to infuse It into our being and to transfer our being into It is to escape from the empire of error and sin.

  — Frithjof Schuon ق, Understanding Islam

• ... Islam sets out to abolish both uncertainty and hesitation and, a fortiori, both error and sin.

  — Frithjof Schuon ق, Understanding Islam

• Beauty is inward virtue; virtue is inward beauty.

  — Frithjof Schuon ق

• What the virtues are to existential perfection, truths are to intellectual perfection...

  — Frithjof Shuon ق

• Spiritual realization is theoretically the easiest thing and in practice the most difficult thing there is. It is the easiest because it is enough to think of God. It is the most difficult because human nature is forgetfulness of God.

  — Frithjof Schuon ق

• To accept a trial is to thank God for it, with the understanding that it permits us a victory, a detachment with regard to the world and with regard to the ego.

  — Frithjof Schuon ق 

• Every injustice that we suffer at the hands of men is at the same time a trial that comes to us from God.

  — Frithjof Schuon ق

• ...we possess what we love to the extent that what we love is worthy of being loved.

  — Frithjof Schuon ق