From His Tongue — Seyyed Hossein Nasrمِنْ كَلَامِهِ

There is nothing more timely than the Timeless.

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

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

... 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.