Seyyed Hossein Nasr

There is nothing more timely than the Timeless.

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Knowing, in its highest sense, is identity with the object of knowledge.

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

The possibility of negating the Truth in the human order is the origin of ugliness.

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

... we live in a world in which diplomacy often prevails over truthfulness, a world which while so sharply critical of everything opposed to it never turns the sharp edge of its supposedly hypercritical faculties upon itself.

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr, referring to the modern world in his response to Thomas Dean's review or Knowledge and the Sacred