From His Tongue — Frithjof Schuonمِنْ كَلَامِهِ

Knowledge of the Substance is the Substance of knowledge.

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 cosmic gravity; it is the agitation of a man who lets himself be carried away by a torrent and who imagines he is creating this torrent himself by his agitation.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Beauty is inward virtue; virtue is inward beauty.

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

Frithjof Shuon

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.

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.

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

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