Author
Seyyed Hossein Nasr
4 quotes attributed to Seyyed Hossein Nasr.
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There is nothing more timely than the Timeless.
— Seyyed Hossein Nasr
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Knowing, in its highest sense, is identity with the object of knowledge.
— Seyyed Hossein Nasr
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The possibility of negating the Truth in the human order is the origin of ugliness.
— Seyyed Hossein Nasr
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... 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